Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4531192-20141126231219/@comment-4531192-20141203230438

So I've repeatedly told myself I'm going to leave Wikia altogether. Why? Well, because I am a) a grown a** man and b) not an engineering/cs student (I wish I were but I digress). However, I find Wikia to be a great medium for procrastination. I also value the friends and foes I've made over the years (I especially encourage people to send me hate messages).

Anyways, as I said in an earliee comment, I found this wiki through another website that has since been taken down. I initially edted as an anon for a few months before creating an account. I didn't instantly make friends though. I mostly commented on blogs, and the first real "Iris message" I received was hate mail. (I subsequently ended up having an argument with the notorious Artemis12). Kudos to Dark for putting his welcome template on my talk page though, he obviously sent it to the right guy.

So I was lucky to not get blocked. My first edits were pretty bad too, so bad in fact that Menara had to message me about them a few times. Side note, I miss Menara, she was super cool. Sadly Ich no longer spreche gut Deutsch. As Sayuri said, she went on a vacation and never came back. Princess Mena will forever remain in our hearts though.

2011 seems like so long ago and most of it is just a blur to me. I do remember getting on chat the first time and Sayuri and Himeyuka being there. The latter left and I was stuck on chat with Sayuri. Those were awkward times for someone with a rather rusty English. Luckily Sayuri went AFK and I could escape lmao.

Anyways I also made friends with the rest of the old admin team, namely TheGhostMan, Athletiger, and PerseusJackson, all three of whom are no longer around. I remember Perseus and Ghost having some kind of a beef with some users and a dispute erupted in the forums. Some cretin named A.r.s.h. was blocked. Also that is when the new blog request procedure thing was implemented (this was in February of 2012).

I eventually became an admin along with Hermione Chase and SonOfZeus1200. Sayuri and Menara were promoted to bureaucrat. Basically the administration underwent (is that a word?) through a lot of changes in 2012. A few old, inactive bureaucrats were demoted, new admins were promoted. Some of the newly promoted admins were demoted. We had a revolving door in our admin offices.

I was promoted to bureaucrat sometime in 2012 and have been the dictator on this wiki ever since. I'm responible for breaking things and making unpopular design choices. It's all me, feel free to send hate. I also especially enjoyed the multiple anon attacks we had. My time as a bureaucrat has mostly been enjoyable. I would like to thank everyone who has made it worthwhile.

As for the friends I've made, it would be impossible to list them all here. A good portion of them have not been around for a while. So I'd like to say a general thanks to the entire community. Also a huge thanks to a few awesome people: Dark, Sayuri, HC, Bella, Neptune, Albus, Atelda, Blackjack22, Menara, Frodo, Maimer, Athletiger, Pers, Hmeig, Solo and SOZ. I am sure I forgot someone important. And again a huge thanks to the entire community and the regular users. Also a huge thank to all our past rollbacks and chat moderators. Peace.