[EVA] _Terminal Dogma_

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In answer to omegagouki who asked for me to forward it:  as Aaron explains here, I actually cannot because he threatened legal action

Nonetheless, Aaron has basically admitted that such an e-mail exists, and that by last January (2009) he had completely given up on EvaGeeks and grown despondent...basically because Rachel usurped his own forums and website out from under him, and told him in private who was really holding the reins.  Granted, Aaron no longer feels that way, so it makes little point to send it.

Still, that's what deeply upsets me:  Rachel didn't "change" Aaron you just decided to keep forgiving her and defending her actions; which makes you responsible for them.

What has changed in the past year since you sent that message?  I mean, what reforms happened?  There was no improvement in the abusive mods situation, and the projects aren't advancing either.  

Pretty much the only thing that you really get active about is arguing with me.

--- On Fri, 12/18/09, Aaron Clark <aaronc1 at umbc.edu> wrote:

From: Aaron Clark <aaronc1 at umbc.edu>
Subject: Re: [EVA] _Terminal Dogma_
To: "The english-language evangelion mailing list." <evangelion at eva.onegeek.org>
Date: Friday, December 18, 2009, 3:14 AM

> You want me to group-forward to the Eva Mailing List, that e-mail you sent
> me last January, where you yourself admitted that EvaGeeks was a failure
> and you yourself thought that fandom was in a bad situation currently? 

No, because that would be a breach of privacy.  Not to mention it is
completely at odds with how I feel about things now.

But to address your concern, at the time, I was unhappy with how things
were.  I was having trouble letting go of Eva Monkey and running the
forums myself.  Rather than contribute and improve the community to how I
thought it should have been, I decided to be negative and blame Rachel,
which was unfair, because I did nothing to contribute.  I was not there. 
I realize now that that was the wrong mindset, which is why Rachel and I,
and also Drinian and I, discussed this at length, and I am now taking a
proactive hands-on approach to things.

And part of that negative view on things was because you were feeding me
lies.  You distorted the facts surrounding your removal from the wiki.  It
sounded like classic Rachel behavior, and that you were a victim in the
situation.  But in the end, it wasn't.  Rachel has changed a lot, and
that's something you need to realize too.  What I found was that a lot of
the things I was personally blaming Rachel for were you distorting things,
and trying to earwig me into getting you what you wanted.  I thought you
were victimized, but as it turned out, you were an irreconcilably,
disruptive force within the community.  You are the very thing that you
criticize Rachel of being, a control freak.  This is why we had to remove
you from the community.

--Aaron
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