... not founded to serve a purpose or to meet a specific need for the GL community, it was born out of their hatred of "ME".

In order for me to warn members about joining this "new site," I have to be somewhat transparent about events that happened 3 weeks ago. For that I have to talk a little about what happened at the VoA website.

Ask each staff member on this "new site" why it was created, and their responses will be the same. Each of the staff members of this "new site" are ex-staffer at Visionsofalice.net who out of anger and frustration over a decision I made to remove a member of our forum for violating a forum rule (something this user has done many times before) they have decided to create this "new site".

Each ex-staff member agreed that this individual had violated the rules, but he should face less penalty because "he is their friend."

One thing about me that has remained consistent during my time at VoA is that, while I have made deep friendships with many VoA members, I WILL NOT PLACE THAT FRIENDSHIP ABOVE VoA's RULES!

If there are replies to this posts, you will undoubtedly see from Butterfly kisses and others that will show you exactly what I am talking about when it comes to FRIENDSHIP and DUTY, I would like you to listen closely to their responses, because you will undoubtedly see what I am talking about in their replies.

I'll ask you again, please read carefully to the responses and tell me what you notice.

As for these staff members at this "new site," all of them broke an oath that they ALL promised to follow: "keep staff matters secret and NEVER disclose them with those outside the staff team(s)." But each of them did just that when they began to disclose staff affairs with not only one another, but also with non-staff members at VoA and even non-VoA members on this "new site."

They broke their oath by doing something each of them promised they would not do. The belief that a staff member would honor their vow not to share private staff matter with outsiders jeopardized VoA site and its members. It jeopardized our members' trust in us (VoA staff) to handle their confidential and sensitive data.

Trust within our community is incredibly rare, and when it does occur, it is a treasured asset that I do not take lightly.

But here is this "new site" formed by ex-staff members who want you to place your trust in them after publicly betraying the trust of another website?

There are numerous issues that bother me regarding the creation of this website, as well as serious concerns about who is truly behind it. I've always had reservations about the owner of this "new site," and that haven't gone away even after I provided him the keys to protect VoA web site, technically.

The owner of this "new site" has NO past and say very little, but because he has gradually chipped away at the trust levels we had against him, many at our site (including myself) have stopped paying attention to the hairs on the back of our neck when his nick always appears when something bad happens to our site or our members.

There will be more to say about the owner of this "new site," but what I have mentioned above is in the back of each of these former staff members' minds regarding their leader. Because they witness bad events and have always scratched their heads and say, "you know what this [site owner] was there. It was mentioned to me that this leader even brought up a post about whether or not he should be trusted at their "new site." However, he posted this on his "new site" not to defend himself, but to evaluate and test how much blind hatred they (his staff team) have for "starlet_Luver" in their defense of him. In other words they dismissed their own hairs on the back of their neck in order to keep their hatred of me valid.

When I realized that he and other former staff members had violated their pledge to VoA forum, I asked him to resign. However, on his way out, he erased vital data from our website and made alterations that prevented VoA from functioning properly. Following that, we discovered that one of the former staff member from this "new site" was scraping VoA website. We caught this former staff red-handed in the act. He offered an explanation that it was only done to scrape for his posts. This former staff member did the same thing at our hidden backup forum as well.

There were also alterations made by this "new site" owner that resulted in the VoA site's new registration requests dropping from an average of 40 per day to less than 3. I detected and erased the alteration made by the "new site" owner. Our site's traffic for newly registered members quickly returned to normal. However, two days later, VoA website was targeted with a DDoS attack on our signup page. We made adjustments to THIS same page. The DDOS attack was really amateurish, to the point that I believe it was designed to appear that way.

Perhaps to send a message?

The owner of this "new site," who was previously our tech admin at VoA, is a super techie who has repeatedly claimed on our forum that he is a hacker with some sort of hacking badge from attending one of those DefCon hacking conventions.

So I believe there will be more fascinating developments at the VoA site in the very near future.

I hurt those ex-staff members (excluding the "new site" owner) who were very close to me. Because I was so hard on them about the truth about how VoA operates, their reaction to the ban of their friend caught me off guard because I really thought they were capable of understanding the difference between FRIENDSHIP and HONORING their commitment to VoA's forum, which they swore an oath to.

I will not allow this "new site" to be listed at VoA forum, and I will strongly ask other sites not to accept this "new site" as ONE OF OUR OWN. For this site has already proven that they have no honor or loyalty to VoA. How can they be accepted into our community of forums when they have demonstrated they have neither of those important things we hold dear?

Much Love,
-sL-