[deanhills]

Thanks for bringing me up to speed @xdude and the link @tryp4vps  Didn't realize it was in the famous (or should I say infamous) FreeVPS Shutting Down thread.  Nice Monad's big contribution is up there.  In retrospect I should be glad the staff are finally stop being nice and revealing their frustration with the community.  Now we at least know why the staff decided to pull the plug on the community without asking them for their input in advance of the decision.  Monad of course kept out of it, as he is Retired Staff, but there were slight innuendos in his post.  The negativity towards the community must have been something that existed in the Staff Forum for many years.  Like part of the staff culture, without me even being aware of it when I joined in February 2016.  I was just completely blown away by the magic of the Giveaway Process, and the high quality of documentation including the reams of rules that must have been put up or perfected by Monad.  He had done a brilliant job with the Forum even before he became staff.  I enjoyed posting there while the going was good.  And had never seen the closure coming.  Nor was aware of the negative feelings of the staff. 

I'm beginning to resist to want to go to freevps.us  to post.  To be honest, it's always been stressful compared with here as I always felt as though the proverbial Sword of Damocles was hanging over my head for not being up to scratch with the millions of quality rules that are posted up in the freevps Menu and staff looking maybe skeptical at my writings.  I never felt comfortable and always self-edited my posts, even deleting them at times, until even deleting became a sin almost punishable by death.  I'm also careful here of course, but the atmosphere feels more relaxed, thanks to staff who value us being around.