So the mods are gone?

[lala]

Did you guys see the latest from the bump? All mods demoted & they're supposedly hiring "professional" mods.

If WoC or Thomas are here, I'd love to hear their take. Sounds like they've (xo) gone back on their word again, no apologies, no explanations. And they keep lying about the original bannings.

[rrrrrachel]

Ita with your assessment

[lala]

Oh, and I love that parenting has taken to calling it the dump.

[MaiTaiBeth]

I was mod of micro preemies and watched this shit storm from the inside out. The mods were helping to clarify the TOU, when they were ready to roll it out TB stopped listening and did what they wanted anyway and in a difficult way for the mods. When some mods let people know changes were coming and let the BG's know they disagreed, they were banned. This was the catalyst that began the mass exodus. Some mods are pretty upset, they put a lot of work into the community and then got told to fuck off. The remaining mods lost their powers and the BG's didn't care that boards were left unprotected. TB continued lying about the bannings treating people like shit that worked their asses off for years. Yesterday I stepped down and had my content deleted. I'm staying there for a while bc there are people I care about still there. There is a lot more but that is a quick summary.....

[mamathomas]

Hey lala, it's thomas930 here.

So yeah, really have no words. We were lied to the entire time. They will never admit they were wrong, I'm pretty sure there will never be an apology. Maitaibeth summed it up pretty well.

[lala]

Yea, the whole thing sucks. I knew a lot of that from my reading at various boards and some posters at drinking while parenting on gbcn.

I feel bad, especially, for the mods who were truly trying to see things through for their particular communities. All if the Ttc boards, etc. Did you see Petra stone girls post?!

The way tb has acted the entire time is just awful. I hope the mass exodus and and subsequent fall out has a longer effect than a few weeks or months. I just fear things will be business as usual and a whole new crop of posters will build community only to have it ruined.

[lala]

Thanks to you 2 and any other mods reading/hear. You did a lot of thankless work and put up with tb gods for far too long. You were appreciated.

[mamathomas]

I haven't seen petra's post. Can you link it please?

tb really screwed up and I kinda hope they don't recover from it... They hurt too many people.

Thank you lala, those words mean a lot.

[MaiTaiBeth]

I think TB will feel it for a while. A lot of people left for other places and it can't be as easily replaced as they think.

[mustardseed2007]

forums.thebump.com/discussion/comment/86416105#Comment_86416105

I can't make it clicky but you just have to search Petra to find it.

eta: oh there, it's clicky!

[mamathomas]

Thank you!

ETA: dang! I just finished  reading it.  I knew some of that but not all the details. XO will never appreciate  what they have lost. 

[jenniferb123006]

And now it's been deleted. I didn't get to read that one.