This is a lot to digest with morning coffee and I am full of disappointment boys and girls.
@ Iceman I am sorry to see you've lost your rank. You are an extraordinary leader, always making yourself available to junior members. I know that I personally asked you a number of times to do interviews for new deputies that had been waiting a while for them and you nearly always did. In events, you led without being toxic and helped junior members perform better. I have always respected you for the things you do differently than so many others. I can only imagine how upset you are right now. I, also, know how busy you are irl and I get it. Unfortunately, parameters were set and unmet. And it is deplorable that the APD is reduced to only weighing a very small picture when measuring the performance of people now instead of looking at the entire picture. Again, my condolences, your loss is already felt.
As to the current status of the APD,
Being the unofficial server mom comes with its perks and its afflictions. I am blessed to have been able to get to know so many players and play in nearly every gang at one point on the server. I'm, also, fortunate enough to have somehow snuck into the APD with my terrible skills and feeble attempts at actually playing this game. While its no secret the APD is not my first love #teammedic I do enjoy the people I play with and overall playing with APD members. I hear a lot of feedback, sometimes opinions that are not shared elsewhere. Mostly I get asked for advice on how to handle things.
So here is my advice to my Olympus family. It does not -just- apply to this situation but to life as well. You are only in control of what you do, you cannot control others, nor can others control you. In each situation, you have to decide for yourself what you will and will not tolerate, how you will act, what is enough to warrant a change, etc. Sometimes creating a coup, or essentially protesting for a change will work and sometimes it won't. You need to decide what you will do if nothing changes. And for now, it appears nothing is going to change within the APD. Take your next step. Or don't, but don't complain when nothing changes.
For me its simply this. As of this moment, I resign from the APD. It is no longer enjoyable nor something I want my name attached to.