Hello Friends

On the evening of January 12, 2008 there was an issue in the POTY poll caused by a post written by AnaMaria that she mistakingly wrote in a colleagues account which I deleted and AnaMaria reposted from the correct account. Anamaria explained what had happed and also answered in regard to another query that was raised by a few members.

After this happened I posted that I am removing myself from the POTY and resigning from the POTW team and immediately after that I sent Bogdan a PM with the resignation of the whole POTW team.

The reason I removed myself from the POTY contest and resigned from the POTW was due to the acts taken by me on that evening. It appeared that by deleting the mistaken post I was trying to hide something and the action was devious by appearance and there is no justifying it. I had no right to delete anything written by a voting member in that thread that wasn't spam or unrelated to the POTY poll. The act was doubly reprehensible since I was one of the leaders in the poll itself. Georgios wrote something in one of his threads and unfortunately I have to agree with him. “to stop making use of privileges that others don't have”. I did just that and as I regret abusing the privileges I had. Hence the removal from the POTY and my resignation from the POTW.

I took and take full responsibility for my actions and deeply regret having done it. My apologies to you all.

The winner of the 2008 POTY is Pauline Raina.

Shalom,

Peter