Hello everyone, and as some of you may still remember Promotion Zone, I am here now to explain to you what happened to that great community.
I was a good friend with the previous owner, the founder of Promotion Zone, bugara1 or Damien. I loved Promotion Zone very much even as a member, and contributed quite a bit in there. Just because I loved the community. And it was so active. So active that it thought it may one day become really, really big.
Then came the day where I would see the activity declining and the admins not participating much, especially Damien - I was told by him that he was very busy with work and life, and I understand it. I perfectly do. We all have that period in our life where we just can't spend time on the internet.
That is why I made him an offer of buying Promotion Zone. I didn't want to see the community die off slowly, so I wanted to make it live back again. He accepted, and both of us were happy - Damien with the money gained, and me with the hope to revive the activity.
I have spent so much time on Promotion Zone after the ownership. It was almost day and night, both of it. I was reworking the rules, I was reworking the forum sections, and the staff sections to make the forum more organized. I participated in every conversation that was left apart and any discussions that were interesting. I even bought Xenforo, a custom theme, and offered to make red cup donations of real money in exchange of PZ cash.
But that's where I made a mistake. I haven't realized that at that time I was almost bankrupt. (Yes, I was very naive and stupid - and maybe still am). I spent my last dimes on doing what was in my opinion the best thing to do to revive PZ.
After that I find out that I have put myself in a deep debt with my own father, because I was using his account to do all the transactions. I haven't realized that I took his money. Yes, I was deeply shocked, but I still couldn't think that I was a con artist - I have made mistakes, but never were they on purpose.
So that's when I completely shut myself down from the internet life, trying to sell everything I could without any success at all, and Promotion Zone was completely forgotten by me. I just couldn't reunite enough brain cells to think of that. And I also saw that PZ was completely dead by then - no one posted anything, not even anyone from the staff team.
And the months after that made me grow up into the person I am today. I am not naive nor too optimistic anymore, therefore much more realistic.
I don't plan on relaunching Promotion Zone anymore because of the concept of "promotion forums" that is way too saturated nowadays and so common. Our concept was a deviation from the basic "promotion forum" concept, and it was quite unique I must say, but not enough to bring back the dead community.
I deeply am sorry for all people who showed extreme determination to Promotion Zone and I thank you all for the support that was given to me, and especially the first and better owned, Damien. I cannot say I have not made any effort to rebuild the forum, but it was just pointless, or at least - not enough.
I was trying to bring back a place I enjoyed so much, but I have failed at it.
But it also teached me a good lesson.
Again, I apologize for everything that happened to this once great place, I thank all the people who have contributed in the forum, but then again - it happened, and I can't do anything now to change the way it is. It's time to move on.
Thanks for taking the time to reading this, and I hope not too many of you will hate me for my ignorance in the past. I hope this has changed by now.
I was a good friend with the previous owner, the founder of Promotion Zone, bugara1 or Damien. I loved Promotion Zone very much even as a member, and contributed quite a bit in there. Just because I loved the community. And it was so active. So active that it thought it may one day become really, really big.
Then came the day where I would see the activity declining and the admins not participating much, especially Damien - I was told by him that he was very busy with work and life, and I understand it. I perfectly do. We all have that period in our life where we just can't spend time on the internet.
That is why I made him an offer of buying Promotion Zone. I didn't want to see the community die off slowly, so I wanted to make it live back again. He accepted, and both of us were happy - Damien with the money gained, and me with the hope to revive the activity.
I have spent so much time on Promotion Zone after the ownership. It was almost day and night, both of it. I was reworking the rules, I was reworking the forum sections, and the staff sections to make the forum more organized. I participated in every conversation that was left apart and any discussions that were interesting. I even bought Xenforo, a custom theme, and offered to make red cup donations of real money in exchange of PZ cash.
But that's where I made a mistake. I haven't realized that at that time I was almost bankrupt. (Yes, I was very naive and stupid - and maybe still am). I spent my last dimes on doing what was in my opinion the best thing to do to revive PZ.
After that I find out that I have put myself in a deep debt with my own father, because I was using his account to do all the transactions. I haven't realized that I took his money. Yes, I was deeply shocked, but I still couldn't think that I was a con artist - I have made mistakes, but never were they on purpose.
So that's when I completely shut myself down from the internet life, trying to sell everything I could without any success at all, and Promotion Zone was completely forgotten by me. I just couldn't reunite enough brain cells to think of that. And I also saw that PZ was completely dead by then - no one posted anything, not even anyone from the staff team.
And the months after that made me grow up into the person I am today. I am not naive nor too optimistic anymore, therefore much more realistic.
I don't plan on relaunching Promotion Zone anymore because of the concept of "promotion forums" that is way too saturated nowadays and so common. Our concept was a deviation from the basic "promotion forum" concept, and it was quite unique I must say, but not enough to bring back the dead community.
I deeply am sorry for all people who showed extreme determination to Promotion Zone and I thank you all for the support that was given to me, and especially the first and better owned, Damien. I cannot say I have not made any effort to rebuild the forum, but it was just pointless, or at least - not enough.
I was trying to bring back a place I enjoyed so much, but I have failed at it.
But it also teached me a good lesson.
Again, I apologize for everything that happened to this once great place, I thank all the people who have contributed in the forum, but then again - it happened, and I can't do anything now to change the way it is. It's time to move on.
Thanks for taking the time to reading this, and I hope not too many of you will hate me for my ignorance in the past. I hope this has changed by now.
