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| 1 | + | hey there. this has been on my mind for a while now. i almost opened this with an apology but... what do i have to be sorry for? | |
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| 3 | + | **as of july 1st 2025, spring is closed to people i do not personally know**. all sign up requests that have not been processed in the last 2-3 weeks will be ignored or invited on the condition of passing a vibe check entirely up to me. | |
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| 5 | + | i almost apologized again. that's... sort of why i'm writing this the way i am, and why i've made this decision. | |
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| 7 | + | spring has been extremely stressful for me since the day most of you discovered the site. i have endured so much stress and pain and exhaustion because of on-site conflicts and interpersonal drama that has been left to me to clean up after. i am barely older than all of you at 20 years old. i am a shut-in that is still trying to get back on her feet after the trauma of COVID-19 and the lockdowns. | |
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| 9 | + | spring was hosted by me for fun. i find fun in hosting sites and sharing them with friends, and even with people i do not know. that's why i welcome people to other sites of mine on a conditional basis. that's why i allowed most new users to stay on spring after their initial arrival in march, or april, or whenever it was. i felt like i saw myself in a lot of you, i felt guilt, and i wanted to do right by all of you. but that trust i put in all of you has not only been repeatedly violated, but i have personally been insulted, disrespected, and ultimately hurt by many of you. for my sake, i cannot let this go on any longer. | |
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| 11 | + | please understand that this is not an easy decision for me to make. i really, really wanted to make this work. i wrestled with myself over this for weeks. i recklessly reopened the registration form as a last-ditch effort to convince myself that this could work, and my trust was immediately violated once again. | |
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| 13 | + | i refuse to apologize any more for taking care of myself. i will allow the current users to remain on site, as long as they do not break my rules. i am now the sole moderator of the site for personal reasons. i cannot afford to take any chances or be nearly as forgiving as i was a few months ago. | |
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| 15 | + | my intention is to ease spring back into a site for my friends and i. i will allow the people who remain to stick around, i won't be banning all of you indiscriminately, but i'm not leaving the door open anymore. this is the best compromise i could come up with for myself because it is already difficult enough as it is to let go; as i said in my blog post months ago, it would crush me harder to pull the plug altogether. | |
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| 17 | + | i want to return to working on myself and focusing my energy on that instead of spending it on moderation that seems to go in circles. | |
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| 19 | + | thank you all for cooperating with me in advance. | |
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