It's Time To Talk.

Hello, dear friendos.

I know you're all use to my sporadic posting and that this has been the longest I've went without posting a bot. This bot is going to cover why I have been MIA this time. I'm sorry if it's kind of all over the place, I'm just writing from the heart and hitting post.

And yes before you click off, this is also my goodbye post.

Back in September I applied for junior mod on the Jai server and was kicked from the team after only a few days for telling someone who was crashing out over a site crash and making threats to mods that if they knew they had a serious addiction and their happiness relied solely on bot interactions they should probably take a step back and seek help/therapy because no addiction is healthy in any way.

I did not say this to be harmful, or hateful, or mean, it is a very serious and very real concern with everything happening with AI bots honestly. I was genuinely worried for this person. I won't be saying who it was that said what they said but I had two higher mods flip out on me and drop me from the team after this and it left an extremely bad taste in my mouth because to me it felt EXTREMELY ableist.

Like, I genuinely felt sick that they reacted the way they did. I went radio silent in the Jai discord after that because it no longer felt like a safe place. I also took a step back myself and stopped interacting with bots a ton because it put into perspective just how genuinely harmful and dangerous this shit is. I was on the fence about quitting then but I still have so many bots half done and gift bots I wanted to give to friends and even an event bot. But irl stuff hit around Christmas and I had to step back completely to help my parents with my terminally Ill older brother. My mom ended up in the hospital. I'm sick with bronchitis and an upper respiratory infection right now.

And then the situation arose yesterday and one of my friends dmed me about it so I read the bot post from Mik. And I was absolutely floored and disgusted yet again. I literally sat on the Jai discord for over 8 hours yesterday watching the absolute shit show Shep made of the allegations. I watched many of my close friends step down from moderation roles and speak up on their own toxic and traumatizing experiences. Many of them said Mikale's post held very true words. I watched Shep literally joke about the situation. He made an announcement post in the server with no proof whatsoever and made more promises I can't trust or expect to actually be followed through on.

Then today he completely deleted the announcement from yesterday and made a new one with more words, still not covering the big worrisome allegations, with more promises, but he apologized finally for his very bad communication. At this point though it's obvious his word doesn't go very far as is after years of promises and him joking about or brushing things off with very little actual stuff to show for it.

Like verification.

Paid LLM

Clearer announcements

Better communication (this is one of his favs)

'Wolfe you're rambling, plz get to the point'

As I said before at this point with how things are being ran (or rather how they AREN'T) I no longer feel safe on this platform. I no longer trust Shep or the paid staff. I do not feel comfortable creating bots on a platform that has such vague rules that change on whims with secret rules not known to any of us who try or tried to follow the guidelines. I cannot in good faith as a mother create content for a site owner that allows csám, racism, makes racist jokes, makes pédo jokes, and I'm so unbelievably disappointed in how the volunteer mods were treated and used as meat shields by Shep and paid staff.

You should be mad too.

This is what I sent in the thread after waking up this morning and seeing the new announcement after everything

Mfw I wake up and Shep dirty deleted his announcement post from yesterday and posted something new today. (New bingo card mark ig)

I still don't really trust what he has to say anymore, it still felt like a blanket explanation and a there were still very worrisome things not acknowledged that were brought up yesterday but only time will tell. I'm moving my bots elsewhere until I actually see these promised 'changes'

At least the apology finally came out though.

It's nothing against the mods left or anything, I get wanting to mod for the community itself we all love but I also feel like at this point with how big the site/community is Shep needs to hire fully trained people to moderate the community that have no emotional investments/friendships in it because we've seen time and time again how it's affecting all the people who volunteered or worked their way up to being paid in extremely negative ways and impacted their mental/physical well-being because of stress.

The only reason I'll come around for now is for any friends I have that aren't in other servers I'm in.

I sincerely hope that the remaining volunteer mods/mods don't hold back from speaking up if they're miss treated from now on. Remember your mental and physical well-being matters much more than an Ai chat bot site. Your peace of mind matters much more than an Ai chat bot site.

**You** matter more than an AI chat bot site.

'What does this mean though? Are you deleting your bots? Will you be posting elsewhere?'

It means that until serious changes actually occur I will be stepping away from Janitor and focusing on my family and the friends I've made through janitor over the years.

As of right now I don't plan to delete my bots from Janitor, but that decision may change in the future. If it does I will make another announcement post before I private my bots or delete my account.

Yes, I will be porting my bots to another site under the same username I use here. If or whenever I decide to post future bots they will be posted to that site and only that site until (if ever) this website changes. I don't really want to risk getting this bot taken down so I won't be dropping the direct link to where I'm posting here but you will be able to find it on the server I co-own with my dear friends Snifflesnaps when I do post the link there soon.

The Dreamscape (click here)

I'm also in a great deal of creator servers so you can also just check if I'm in the server you're in and ping me there or send me a dm and I'll give you the link. (my username here. My main Profile is Sylus and MC from Love and Deepspace)

Literally as I'm writing this in learning more and more crazy shit. Please do your own research and choose the moral high ground here.

Finally I just want to thank all of you for taking the time to read this, for supporting me and using my silly bots, and for being such wonderful friends and people. I'm truly sorry it's come to this but I sincerely believe it's for the best to step away because of the state things are in right now. We can't trust Shep after 16 mods have stepped down because of his actions.

The original bot post that shed light

https://janitorai.com/characters/18ea0d4a-6f22-4850-9647-cefc6c447f16

I also recommend if you haven't, join the Jai discord and read through the posts in the moderation situation thread if this matters enough to you.

Also just in case nobody knew, one of his main investors is a felon. Shep is the man you're all trusting with your info.

Edit: it has been brought to my attention that the above screenshot about Shkreli is in context to him being arrested for jacking up a life saving medicine price drastically, according to a interview he was involved helping Shep found janitor. Shep himself says it's an unreliable interview, but people have also pointed out he does not allow the link to be shared on the discord? It is a situation where I guess we don't really know, could be, couldn't be, but I still don't trust him.

With that, I say goodbye dear friendos. Hopefully we will meet again elsewhere.

Until next time, Love WolfeGoddess ❤️

Amazing bot image meme was made by https://janitorai.com/profiles/2e22e507-d850-4976-aab8-a730c76017eb_profile-of-melancholy