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Don't know what happened :/

Hmm, indeed...

I doubt there's a big dose of drama behind this. It's probably a mistake on their part.
But I wouldn't be surprised that he left. He was in a bad position -- these last few months, he was pretty much the only one working on finishing SMF2. Must have worn him out... I dunno.

This is one of those things that are probably better asked on SM.org, I think. :)

I hadn't noticed yet, by the way; I haven't really kept an eye on the team page recently.

Can't really say what happened - as I don't really understand myself either,
but there is no big drama behind it that I know of, he just wanted to leave SMF behind for now...

Hey Lex, remember his post in the dev blog where he stated, or rather implied, that the overall public attitude he was hearing constantly demotivated him? I'll guess that's  the reason.

Also the official SMF kitty is now unofficial from the team page.

Your guess is as good as mine, but that's what I'm thinking too.This I know as well, and it came as a surprise to most of the team, but K@ can explain it himself if he wants to. I'll not go in to that in here...

Did the pillars of the SMF Team came crashing down as of late?

Kat's departure from the SMF team was something he discussed internally with them for a month or two I believe. He didn't discuss it here, though, so I assumed he'd given up on the idea.

I just started a thread about part of my withdrawal.

The main gist, greatly simplied, is thus:

A little while back, there was a vote for the Support team lead.
 
The current Lead, Jim M, was hardly ever on the forum and he did hardly anything.
 
There had been a lot of complaints about it, too.
 
So, I stood against him, in the vote.
 
Then, Lex got nominated and accepted.
 
Having had various conversations with Lex, I knew that he felt the same way that I did. So, rather than see the vote split and Jim get back in, I dropped out.
 
What happened? Jim got voted back in! How? Because the other team leads voted for him!
 
Team leads? What the hell were they allowed to vote for? It should've been just the support team that voted!
 
But, they let the vote stand.
 
One of the other problems, was that Jim kept letting certain people have certain tasks to do. Apprentice mentors, that kinda thing.
 
Those people weren't into doing things for SMF's sake. They did things to make money out of it.
 
You know who they are...
 
So, when Jim got voted back in, I resigned, as I'd said I would. (I'm a man of my word, if nothing else)
 
That was that.
 
The stupid thing, is that most of the other team leads told me that I shouldn't have dropped out of the vote, because they would've voted for me!
 
They were, obviously, totally out of touch with what had been going-on, within the support team.
 
Which is why members of the support team should've been the only ones allowed to vote.
 
Idiocy. Total and utter idiocy.


You know what, though?

I'm doing almost as much support, now, as I did when I was on-site!

People who don't want to go on the forum, because of the "Atmosphere"...

I quote "What are they? Fucking robots? Does SMF batter the personalities out of people, or something?"


Actually, I really miss the place. But, the horse has bolted and the door's been locked. :(

Kat, you know you're always welcome here! And we'll be needing help in the support department too ;)
It's up to you, of course!

I'd imagine that that's quite a way down the line, that.

I'll definitely be interested, though.

THANKS!

Just for now, though, I'm sure you'll understand that I have a genuine, if misguided, hope that SMF will put it's house in order.

Maybe I have more chance of pissing on the moon, though...

Now that is a Guinness moment  :cool:

Even WordPress becoming a forum software and taking over SMF would be a safer bet. :^^;:

*psst* bbPress? *psst*