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'Salutations!' A Public Apology.

Beep Beep I am a BEE

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Dearest Forum-Friends,

 

     Hey everyone! It's been a while, but I've been unbanned. (Yes, I was banned.) I need to tell you something important.

     About the fact that you don't eat macaroni and are deathly afraid of it?

     NO- No, that's..for another day.

     I'm here to tell you all: I am sorry. What for? A whole lot. First, I want to thank you all for wanting to try to give me another chance at this. I'll make sure I don't mess it up.

     Now, for the apology part because this was a terrible act I did.

     I am so, so, so sorry. I know I've been tossing this word around a lot, but I am. I betrayed you all by doing that. I broke the trust of everyone and shattered the bonds I once had here. I know that no apology will be able to repair the damage I have done. I was not being a good friend or person in general by lying. It was a heinous act and I acknowledge that I am guilty of the wrongdoing. I realize that it was not right to do AT ALL. It wasn't cool. It wasn't funny. It was just treacherous and inconsiderate. None of you wonderful people deserved to be treated in such a way and stressed out, especially because of something silly I did.

     I apologize to the Moderators and Administrators as well. They also had to deal with the false reports meaning that they had to take precious time out of their days to deal with fake people. There is no way for me to get them that time back that was wasted on me. The situation was harrowing for them and they might've sprouted a few gray hairs all because of me. They didn't need that and they probably had more important matters to attend to. So, again, I am very sorry.

     Honesty is so important in friendships. It is what helps structure them. If there was no honesty, how would you know when someone is being genuine? Could you trust them anymore with the things you told them? How would you know if they were truly your friend? Was that all a lie? I can see now that that is probably what some of you were questioning due to the lies. There should never be a moment in time where you feel such distrust in your friend, but you did because of me. 

     I'm not asking you all for your friendship, trust or forgiveness because I can't even ask you for that. It wouldn't be fair for me to ask that knowing that I did all of this. Besides, all of that has to be earned back especially after it's been lost. I know some of you may never want to be my friend again, and that's perfectly okay. That's a valid reaction and feeling to this. I'm just hoping that we can at the very least move on from this with time? I still appreciate you for being in my life.

     I promise to be completely transparent and honest about the things I do. (Like Applejack! Except she almost got her brother's leg chopped off-) I have nothing to hide and there's no reason to lie. Lying creates a distrustful relationship and no one wants that.  I promise to be a way better friend and person. I will not let this happen again. However you may take this post is up to you and you may respond in any way you'd like.

 

Also, I made a song. An apology song at that. Though, I have no instruments or proper music, so it is not top quality.

     Wowzers, what a huge learning experience. Anyway, I hope you've all been well aside from this huge problem. Don't let negative people ruin your day. See you next time.

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Ice Princess Silky <3
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Interstellar! Do you have any idea how much I have missed you?! I think I can say we all missed you. :coco: 
 

Whatever happened there, I understand. Staff did, as well. But it is good to wish to practice honesty in friendships even if or when we do wrong. We are all mortal, after all. And we are not flawless. *hugs tight* 

Welcome back!

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Sophie

Welcome back Interstellar! and I can't agree more with Silky on this one! 

 

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Beep Beep I am a BEE
15 minutes ago, Ice Princess Silky &lt;3 said:

Interstellar! Do you have any idea how much I have missed you?! I think I can say we all missed you. :coco: 
 

Whatever happened there, I understand. Staff did, as well. But it is good to wish to practice honesty in friendships even if or when we do wrong. We are all mortal, after all. And we are not flawless. *hugs tight* 

Welcome back!

:( Awwww, I missed you and everyone here too! Again, I promise to be very honest with everyone now! :hug_day:

Moments ago, Sophie said:

Welcome back Interstellar! and I can't agree more with Silky on this one! 

 

Thank you too! I'll be a better friend to you and everyone else :squee:

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Beep Beep I am a BEE
19 minutes ago, Crypty Scribbles said:

Well well, It seems somepony learned an important friendship lesson. 9_9

Welcome back to the herd ^~^

Yes I did! Thank you! : D

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Ice Princess Silky <3
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Yes, honesty is important within this context of a prank. It is good to be honest and open when staff is investigating a case and need further information because it helps to bring justice to a potential threat.

However, I am feeling rather obligated here to stress something else. As an Administrator who has seen... too many things in a large community -- I wish to express the importance of internet safety and personal protection. 

It is a complete side note, but for the sake of adding a context here: If someone is demanding that you give them your full name, private information, etc or else "you are not really a friend," this is not what online honesty or even what online friendship is about. You can have online friends and still practice internet safety and security. Any implication here of dishonesty should be dismissed. 

The context with this specific matter addressed in the blog is more along the lines of pranking an entire community, perhaps for attention, whatever the reason it may be but it escalating to a rather severe level of investigation -- and then causing Moderation and Admins to cancel their appointments and personal lives in order to attend to the severity of the matter -- when a simple moment of honesty would have brought relief and less stress with little penalty -- maybe just a "slap on the wrist."

So, honesty in this context, is very important. Because it shows you value the friendships and efforts enough to respect what they had to go through for you and offer them closure.

However, if anyone is private messaging you or otherwise harassing you for your private information or to "prove something," without any proper context within that demand then please practice internet security and let your friendly Moderation team know this immediately. Your reports or complaints are always 100% anonymous and Mods are active and compassionate enough to not dismiss these cases. Just please, no pranks lol

Welp, with that out of the way, let us get back to being fluffy ponies. :v 

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Cash In

Welcome back!

I think the important thing is to reflect and understand how you can grow and better yourself as a person. If we understand why our actions can be harmful and use that as a opportunity to learn how to be better, then there was some good achieved.

Trust does take time to rebuild, but it's never impossible. Rome wasn't built in a day. It took time genuine effort, time and care. If you are able to apply that, I'm sure you'll be able rebuild it.

 

And this a message for everyone: We may look like fun hating tyrants, but we do care and we investigate serious situations with great concern and attention.

Our entire team cares greatly about this community and thought of anyone being put in harm's way is something that none of us like to even think about, but we are always ready to act.

So please talk to us. You are safe with us and we are here to help

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RafaStaryStory

Welcome back Interstellar Sketch! Hope you're doing good!

I never really understood completely what happened, I wasn't even there after all. I'm honestly really fine, but it's because you did nothing wrong to me, nor I felt you did something wrong to me, so I think you have nothing to apologize to me. But if you failed with the other persons on the site, then I think it's really good that you decided to apologize to them, for me that shows that you're willing to change and recover your friendships. I understand that different people have different levels of tolerance, but from what I was told, I'm personally not really impressed by what happened, I think it's important to remember that you're still a kid, kids do a lot of pranks and things that can annoy adults. I know I'm right, because at your age, I made a lot of wrong things that annoyed older people as well, I think what I made was even worse. 

You're still going to make a lot of mistakes, but now that you're looking forward to doing anything to not lose the trust of your friends, shows that you want to grow. That's really important and good, I think that can really save you, it's a right decision that you decided to take quite early and I appreciate that. 

I also think the fact that you're not asking for forgiveness and is not questioning the decision of those who don’t want to continue being your friends shows a great level of maturity in you. It's something I couldn't do at your age (actually, a few years older than that) because I just wasn't mature enough, that's one of the reasons why I lost all of my past friendships. So I think it's great that you're making such right decisions this early in your life.

Really hope the other users here understand and forgive you, It's normal for children to want to do anything to get attention, not saying that what you did wasn't wrong, but I just to say that you're still growing and this post shows that those who saw your mistakes should trust your words, at least that's what I believe, have fun in the site, hope you have a beautiful future ~☆

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Beep Beep I am a BEE
3 hours ago, Cash In said:

Welcome back!

I think the important thing is to reflect and understand how you can grow and better yourself as a person. If we understand why our actions can be harmful and use that as a opportunity to learn how to be better, then there was some good achieved.

Trust does take time to rebuild, but it's never impossible. Rome wasn't built in a day. It took time genuine effort, time and care. If you are able to apply that, I'm sure you'll be able rebuild it.

 

And this a message for everyone: We may look like fun hating tyrants, but we do care and we investigate serious situations with great concern and attention.

Our entire team cares greatly about this community and thought of anyone being put in harm's way is something that none of us like to even think about, but we are always ready to act.

So please talk to us. You are safe with us and we are here to help

Thank you! I'll be patient. I know it is not an immediate thing to regain everyone's trust or at least some people's trust. I'm willing to change my ways and be even more thoughtful before I do things! :ticking: And, you all are not fun hating tyrants, just people who do care a lot about the people on the forums and who want to be sure they never feel unwelcome or unsafe. You all check up on people when you think something is wrong and that's amazing! You also immediately try to solve a situation when someone reports something, so you're all very great! ^u^

 

46 minutes ago, RafaStaryStory said:

Welcome back Interstellar Sketch! Hope you're doing good!

I never really understood completely what happened, I wasn't even there after all. I'm honestly really fine, but it's because you did nothing wrong to me, nor I felt you did something wrong to me, so I think you have nothing to apologize to me. But if you failed with the other persons on the site, then I think it's really good that you decided to apologize to them, for me that shows that you're willing to change and recover your friendships. I understand that different people have different levels of tolerance, but from what I was told, I'm personally not really impressed by what happened, I think it's important to remember that you're still a kid, kids do a lot of pranks and things that can annoy adults. I know I'm right, because at your age, I made a lot of wrong things that annoyed older people as well, I think what I made was even worse. 

You're still going to make a lot of mistakes, but now that you're looking forward to doing anything to not lose the trust of your friends, shows that you want to grow. That's really important and good, I think that can really save you, it's a right decision that you decided to take quite early and I appreciate that. 

I also think the fact that you're not asking for forgiveness and is not questioning the decision of those who don’t want to continue being your friends shows a great level of maturity in you. It's something I couldn't do at your age (actually, a few years older than that) because I just wasn't mature enough, that's one of the reasons why I lost all of my past friendships. So I think it's great that you're making such right decisions this early in your life.

Really hope the other users here understand and forgive you, It's normal for children to want to do anything to get attention, not saying that what you did wasn't wrong, but I just to say that you're still growing and this post shows that those who saw your mistakes should trust your words, at least that's what I believe, have fun in the site, hope you have a beautiful future ~☆

Hello again, and thank you! I appreciate everything you said here and will remember it for future reference. Of course, I'm not perfect and will make mistakes. I don't think I should have done it despite being a kid either. I will be accountable for my actions and remember everything everyone said here to make wiser decisions! See you around! :squee:

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Beep Beep I am a BEE
11 hours ago, ComanderZhabikKlavik said:

I have no idea what happened to you, but I think everyone is glad you're back!:eager:

Thank you and I appreciate your kindness! :party-pinkie:

 

1 hour ago, TheRockARockster said:

INTERSTELLAR!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :twilightsmile:

Welcome home to the forums, my friend.

It’s lovely to see you again.

Hi there, Rocky! Thank you and I hope you two have been doing okay! Also, loving the new emojis! :pinkiehappy:

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TheRockARooster
49 minutes ago, Interstellar Sketch said:

Thank you and I appreciate your kindness! :party-pinkie:

 

Hi there, Rocky! Thank you and I hope you two have been doing okay! Also, loving the new emojis! :pinkiehappy:

I'm feeling good, Interstellar. :adorkable:

Hope the same for you, I'm glad to see you again.

Whatever happened has happened and we're here with the now, we all are happy you're here on the forums again.

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Banananananajack

WHAT DID YOU DO?! 

I forgive you, no matter what you did!

I thought that you were busy with schoolwork, OMG, how'd this happen?.

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abronymouse

welcome back :) 

you came back with an apology song! :pinkie:

this is great! 

more people should sing on returning to the forum

you have set a standard here!

 

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Samurai Equine

Oh hey! Welcome back, Interstellar!

Just in time to see my avatar. Look familiar? :eeyup: Colored it myself. Gonna keep it up until the end of the month.

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Also, I made a song. An apology song at that. Though, I have no instruments or proper music, so it is not top quality.

There you go, fixed it for you. All the quality. :coolphoto:

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Beep Beep I am a BEE
6 hours ago, abronymouse said:

welcome back :) 

you came back with an apology song! :pinkie:

this is great! 

more people should sing on returning to the forum

you have set a standard here!

 

Lols, thank you for the welcome! Maybe we'll be seeing more songs in the future! :jazz-hooves-please:

3 hours ago, Samurai Equine said:

Oh hey! Welcome back, Interstellar!

Just in time to see my avatar. Look familiar? :eeyup: Colored it myself. Gonna keep it up until the end of the month.

There you go, fixed it for you. All the quality. :coolphoto:

Thank you for the welcome! Haha, I noticed that earlier and was thinking to myself "Wow, Samurai actually colored it!"

Lel, I'm not sure anything can fix that song. D:

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Samurai Equine

@Interstellar Sketch

Well my coloring was rough and might not be what the original artist intended. Would have preferred to ask you to do it, honestly. But it is my OC, so I didn't see the harm in giving it a quick color job. Didn't even color the whole thing, just enough to use as an avatar. :twilightsheepish:

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3 hours ago, Samurai Equine said:

@Interstellar Sketch

Well my coloring was rough and might not be what the original artist intended. Would have preferred to ask you to do it, honestly. But it is my OC, so I didn't see the harm in giving it a quick color job. Didn't even color the whole thing, just enough to use as an avatar. :twilightsheepish:

You did a great job on coloring! It's very neat, all inside the lines too. :mlp_grin:

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Shiny Silvermoon

@Interstellar Sketch Forgiving you is not an easy task but I believe in second chances. You seem genuine in what you say so I will trust you just like the moderators trusted you enough to let you in again. So I forgive you entirely for your past crimes. :pinkiesmile:

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Beep Beep I am a BEE
9 minutes ago, Shiny Silvermoon said:

@Interstellar Sketch Forgiving you is not an easy task but I believe in second chances. You seem genuine in what you say so I will trust you just like the moderators trusted you enough to let you in again. So I forgive you entirely for your past crimes. :pinkiesmile:

Thank you so much. I know what I did hurt you a lot and I still apologize again for that. Thank you for giving me another chance and I'll do better. ^v^

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