Ohhhhhhhh, I have made a huge mistake!

Ya'll are right, it was MySims that I was thinking of.  Thank you for correcting stupid ol' me!

Hope and all else who create for us:

I for one will be continuing with Sims2 after Sims3 comes out.  I do not like the childish look of Sims3.  It is not nearly as realistic as what we have now.  So please do not think your work will become obsolete.  If I am the only one (and I doubt it) that remains with Sims2, then I will most assuredly be missing your creations to come, and many other creators' things.

Hope, stay healthy.  We need you.

The link brings up yet another change in the last couple hours.

http://www.pc-sims.com/smb/showthread.php?t=8719

clicking further, it says pc-sims is for sale. DETAILS: Domain Name pc-sims.com without content.!!!

From what I understand, only the website address, pc-sims.com is for sale. I guess there is nothing in the site. Please correct me if I am wrong.

Marcy, here's the list which was posted by ShanOw on page 5 of this thread:

Thank you, I told him, as did two of his other friends.  He will first chance he gets...(I personally think he spent the last of his free time telling me what to type on that last post!!!     Tis kind of fun to play secretary...shall I try my hand at translating for FeeEssen and others?  )

I'm glad all this is coming out.  I have had mixed feeling about SMB almost from the beginning, and because of this thread I am understanding why so many people left or got sick.  Shoot, the last post I made there was on the Interview Dan Jeni (lol, couldn't resist calling him that).  The thread said to ask questions for Jan to answer.  So I posted "Wow, I was hoping to learn more about Jan."  My post got deleted.  Seriously, I wanted to try and understand the dude, see where he was coming from...what makes him tick?  sigh.

I don't think there has been this much of an uproar in the sims2 community since Jack Thompson attacked.

I am talking with Worship right now, and this is directly from him:

HawkGirl,

No hard feelings here. I wanted to warn anybody who would listen and believe me about what SMB had done to me and my friends.  Whoever chose to believe me, well, that was up to them to decide based on either what they had seen themselves, or on how much they had been brainwashed. I am glad that the truth is finally coming out, but I am sorry that it is at the expense of so many people. I have since learned that some of my accusations were not all entirely true (such as the reason that some of my friends were banned) but either way, we were all treated in a way that was flat out wrong.  The only reason that they could conjure up to ban me was the fact that I will not punish my site members for something that they are accused of at another site.  

I can only vouch for what I have seen and experienced myself, and for what my friends have been through. The last time that I thought I knew exactly what was up, I was wrong and have learned the hard way not to make assumptions and run with them.  I have, however, gotten into many battles with Jan about how other members were being treated, particularly around the time that FeeEssen was banned. I could tell that something was not right, and I stood up for what was right. Then they decided to accuse me of being part of the troll attacks being made at that time by some kids. I then stepped into that and Katie, Jan, crushter and I got into contact with the attackers and got them to stop. To this day they are holding crushter responsible for the attacks simply because the attackers  were friends of his.  That is why they have crushter on the blacklist, even though that issue was resolved and was no longer relevant.

Shortly after, I stepped down from my staff position there because I no longer had the time to devote to their site in addition to my own.  That was when the trouble with the rest of us started. Jan put some sort of applet against my name (as well as Tiya Marie, SvetLanka and a few others) and then he started finding any excuse that he could to officially ban the group of us.

Once they finally succeeded, I became very angry and that's when I made the post warning others of SMB's actions.  That post, however, was made for many reasons, some right and some wrong.  I truly wanted to warn everyone what we had been through with SMB, but the post was made primarily out of vengeance.  With the help of some friends and a bit of prayer on my part, I decided that the post was not up for the right reasons and taking matters into my own hands was not the way to handle it.  So I took it down.  The post was replaced with a thread simply asking for prayer for Jan.  This was about the time I ended up on a two week leave for personal reasons.   While I was away the post was taken completely out of context and it appeared that it, too, was up for the wrong reasons.  Jan took it as a personal attack against himself and made a public statement threatening me.  He gave me 2 days to remove this "slanderous" post while, might I add, I was clearly away for 2 weeks. I keep in very close contact with my staff members so I was able to get online and remove this post within his time limit.  The deal was that by doing so I would get my account back.  I wasn't really interested in getting my account back after all they had done to me and my friends, but since the post was taken offensively, I removed it anyway.  Even though this was all done within his time limit, Jan still did not lift my ban and would not tell me why.  A while later he made an announcement at SMB saying that banned members could inquire about their ban reason via email.  I followed through with this, but instead of receiving a response, another public announcement was made stating that members who house rebels on their own site could not even inquire for their ban reason.  I made no further contact attempts with him since and have simply left things alone.

Thank you for taking the time to read this.  I hope this adds a few new pieces to the puzzle.  Thanks again, Rob (Worship4Ever0227)

Worship has been wanting to post a comment here for several days but is unable to register for some reason.  I have offered to post his comments for him but he is very careful not to break anyone's rules, so prefers to be registered here.

I can only speak of what I experienced at SMB.

Shortly after joining SMB I was uploading some houses.  One lot in particular was rejected because of violation of cc items.  I disagreed with the mods and tried to prove my case.

It was here, in my opinion, where SMB was not run well by Jan Deni.  I talked directly with Jan, in several conversations via messenger.  I gently tried to prove that the cc in my house is OK to share and gave him links to prove that.  He has to go by what his mods decide and I respect that, but what I didn't respect is he admitted to me he was afraid to approach them with anything that might make them unhappy.

In the end, I relented and did not pursue the issue.  I was happy that the same lot with all the same content was approved at MTS2.

A few weeks later Katy pmed me and on behalf of SMB she apologized for any trouble and if I would immediately upload that same house with the same cc she would approve it now.

I gained a lot of respect for Katy after that, and to me it looks like she is another victim here.  I feel sorry for Jan and tried to help him, but folks, I never was impressed at the way he tries to deal with things.

I am also active on another website where some banned SMB members are, and non-banned.  Because of Jan's rules, we have had to be very careful of anything we say on that site...that's where "housing rebels" and "staffing mutiny" etc come in.

There are sooooooo many great people I got to meet over there, but it makes me wonder...when everyone else left or was banned, what was their beef?  I only know what Jan told me, and that makes me wonder more.

Before the site closed I would go there every couple of days just to see if there were any new rules or ridiculous accusations that were posted.

Another member tried to upload something there, and was rejected because of violations of cc.  (Rightly so.)  But instead of acting in a mature manner, this member raged and now is banned.  And, from what I understand, because she mentioned names in her rage, those members whose names were mentioned were also banned, and then new rules were posted at SMB to justify the bannings.

If SMB re-opens, I know I will not be welcome there anymore because of this posting.  I'm very sorry that Jan, who was running SMB, is having such a hard life, but really, he has no one to blame for all this mess except himself.  I tried to help him and that's why I didn't boycott them as asked by friends.  The whole thing saddens me, and always has.  Yesterday I reread the conversations I had with Jan, and am hoping and praying he will find happiness and that the other members can reunite.