Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4531192-20141126231219/@comment-4324417-20141203234724

After seeing all these wonderful speeches, I feel the urge to give one of my own. This wiki has meant so much to me, every second I've been on it. What can I say? I was visiting my grandparents in New Jersey one summer and I stumbled upon this site. Now this was after I read the first series and went to go see the movie (the trailer looked awesome, which is why I read the entire series before I went to go see it.)

I read the Lost Hero when it was released, and I absolutely loved it. A year later I made an account, and I was so pumped about the next book because of Percy, that I named myself after it. For those of you that don't know, I use to be "Thesonofneptune101"! Things didn't go so hot when I first joined to say the least. I got into it with TheGhostMan on chat, and was banned for infinity. But, thanks to Dark, he didn't think I deserved a block that long and switched it to two weeks. (He's a great guy, right?) Anyway, after that I took it upon myself to become a super editor. I'd say up until sometime in 2013, I was one of the crappiest editors on this wiki. And even when I stepped up my editing game, I still considered myself to be really bad until earlier this year. I use to edit all the time, (a lot of which got reverted). I then become a rollback and chatmod in 2012, somehow. a One night, I don't know what was going through my mind, but I made like ten spam edits and was blocked for like a week by Borean, which I totally deserved.

I continued to edit and edit, and edit, I made friends along the way, I annoyed the crap out of Sayu, which I now regret, and I was an immature twit, all the way up until late last year. Now this is where it got interesting. There was another admin election (I had lost the last, to the awesome Frodo! Dude is a beast editor!) and I was obsessed with becoming a Camp Half-Blood Wiki administrator, it was my ultimate wikia dream and no one could stop me. After losing the election to the more deserving and very sweet RoyallyBella, I decided it'd be a good idea to lash out at anyone and everyone. I got in an argument with Atelda, because you know, I was a huge moron at the time, and because she simply told me she was more knowledgeable then me in a subject, I got so mad that I decided to tell her off. (I did some dumb stuff). I was eventually blocked a few weeks later, after some more un-pleasantries (Me being even more of an idiot).

It really crushed me, because Camp Half-Blood Wiki was all that I really had known. It's what I had spent years doing, and it was taken away from me in a blink of a eye. I had been in a deep depression since before I was blocked, which majorly contributed to me being a douche then, though that still doesn't excuse my behavior. I didn't realize being apart of this community was a privilege and not a right, no matter how long I'd been here or how many contributions I had made. I soon joined the DC Database, and becoming an editor there, literally changed my life.

I learned how to become a great editor, make quality contributions, and more importantly, I learned what it meant to be positive force in a community. I had time to grow as a person and mature. So when Sayuri founded the Magnus Chase Wiki, I saw it as a second chance to redeem myself. (I also thanked god that she didn't block me there too). After she graciously made me an admin there, I apologized for my past actions and became friends with my friends here again. Eventually, when I requested to be unblocked here last week or so, the admins of this wiki granted it.

This has been an interesting ride most definitely guys, I mean if I could, I would have liked to avoided everything I did, but it taught me a lesson and made me a better person and editor in the end run, so I guess it served it's purpose. I'm glad I'm back on the wiki that I started out on, and I'm on good terms with everyone! *Note, I know there's a bunch of gaps in this story, but I'm going off pure memory*