KittyCatS Love & Frustration

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(01-22-2018 04:57 PM)MitsuruKirijo06 Resident Wrote:  

(01-22-2018 02:41 PM)Rayne Broome Wrote:  I think it is now time to tell my tale on what I have done and why.

I do not know how many of you know me so here is a back story. I have been breeding for 6 years now and Auctioneer for just as long. I started out with Nyn, Liriel, and Leel at Kitty Kottage way before profilers were a thing and we had to post everything on the forums to advertise and send out notices. Yes, this is what I like to call Old School. When Hellcat and I got married in RL and had our child we took a break from SL for a little while. When we came back there was this new thing called RM's Profilers. These were nifty and cool and made posting cats by auction so much easier. By this time, we were working at ScratchN Post with LickN and crew. I was there when everything went down and when RM was banned from being used at that market. Rene got in a tizzy and decided to go to someone's personal land where his boards were being used to look up personal cats - not ones for sale - and disabled them. All because that auctioneer was using the Group version at home like an Owner version. Well that started the ball rolling and other Auctioneers started to have trouble on ScratchN Post as well.

By this time, Hellcat and I had moved over to Secret Smile to do our auction. She still owned the RM group profilers but I did not want to use them. Why? Because I am old school and all the trouble with Rene at ScratchN Post. I was shown that we were missing out and there was no other option for profilers at that time and the customers wanted them. So, we kept using RM's boards until he started his tizzy fits again and started attacking people. By this time, I was a Manager helping out Donna and Matt with Secret Smile and one day we were watching Rene skulk around Secret Smile and harassing customers on sim. That was the final straw and he was banned from Secret Smile for abuse.

This was right after Torgons came out and we as a Secondary Market stated we will not use RMs products at our auctions, mega mall or love shacks. But understanding that people had their own right to choose, we allowed our customers to use whichever board they wanted to. Yes, we got harassed by him but nothing a mute button could not fix. We made a stand against a bully.

This month, I was offered a job to run a new Secondary Market called Oncilla Ridge. We all sat down and talked about who was going to be on the ban list. Many were an easy choice because we were able to get lists from other markets so we could ban the known griefers. When Rene's name came up three of the managers said ban and that was it - done. We also made the choice to say "Hey our customers have the right to choose on which product they use. We will not restrict their choices on what they would like to use."

A week later, right after we started letting people set up their shops and cats were being listed, three things happened that makes me question this man's ethics.
1. He showed up on our sim, waited for over 5 mins, went to a person's profiler to reset it because the cat sold over night.
2. He got around the Estate ban to do this. Now, I will admit we could of missed something that could of caused a loophole but we do not believe so.
3. HIS TOS changed stating that he must have access at all times to his product at all locations.

Some of you know the joys and excitement of having that special cat sell for that wonderful price that is above market norm for cats and to have that all taken away from you makes you feel violated because someone else found out first and reset everything because you were asleep. It felt like someone broke in to your house and turned off your TV because you left it on and you do not know what else they did in your house while you were sleeping.

Evo, thank you for starting this thread and starting a Discussion. Everyone else, thank you for having this Discussion and not a slamfest so we have a place to show new breeders an option and to show old breeders coming back what has been going on while they are gone.

KittyCatS is a community of many different people and it's true not all of us get along for many different reasons. I believe that most of the reasons are mainly cultural or misunderstandings on translations. Yet we are still a community and that is what makes us grow. I have made some wonderful friends. I have met others who I now call my SL Family. I even met my RL wife and had a very beautiful daughter because of this community. Yes, I have had my downsides too - one of my first experiences was the person who got me in to KittyCatS going off on Callie about the Menagerie Tiger and using my name and making Callie very upset. Yet, the bright side was Callie messaged me and asked me about what I felt and what did I think about my Cattery Mate. I made a good friend that day with Callie and I hope I left the same impression on her because after we talked, I spent 30,000L that week to buy out my cattery mate so she would leave KittyCatS because I did not want to have that kind of Hate in KittyCatS.

We all have a voice in what this Community is. Yes, we will have conflicts with others but we all love doing this one thing - breeding Cats and sharing what we have done with others in the community. So long as we keep having a Discussion about concerns and do not spit hate-filled venom, this community will become stronger.

I Know that Rene's ban at secret was overturned by Donna very quickly and that Matt always was against the Torgon and probably still is. They did last winter take the RM's down and replace them with Torgon but Matt kept complaining about them and by the time summer rolled around most had been replaced again at his auctions with the RM.

So not overturned Mitsu, what was decided was he would remain unbanned in order to perform customer service for the renters still choosing to use his product. Which in hind site, was folly, we should have known not to trust him and his antics. True Matt did like the LOOK of RM's better,but he did agree it wasn't worth the harassment to others to continue using them. The fact of the matter is we no longer use ANY profiler at our auctions(Matt's or mine), they cause lag, and make the stage visually unappealing. WE are OLD SCHOOL and use our brains and Callies wonderful site to do our perving. That being said BIG hugs to you dear miss seeing your face