Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-7424710-20180225213410

Hello, I'm leaving and retiring my admin status. Not temporarily, but permanently. I was hoping that I could keep going until I graduated HS next year, but I have a few reasons for doing so earlier than expected.

1. Interest Lost: It's like many older people who've left, they've lost interest in the site because of disliking the audience and whatnot. Mine's a bit different. I still love writing, VS debating, and the people who browse this site just as much as I did in the past. My disinterest is, unfortunately, at my own duties. As time wore on and the people I've grown to talk to vanish from the site, the drive to keep doing my job also diminished. This isn't in offense to this wiki itself, its just something that comes natural I suppose?

2. Educational Stuff: Apparently I've been such a good apple I'm getting stuff left to right about summer events or things that'd give me credit. And if you told me I'd rather spend my time moderating than focusing on my education, you're nuts. That shit's free credit and hours of my time that are already spent in advance and can be used on better things to support future advances. So even if I did stay and try to balance both of them out, education would still be prioritized and I'd lose time on here that was going to be lost anyway, so it'd be a lose-lose.

3. Future Endeavors: As I've stated, I'm still heavily interested in VS Debating as a hobby. I find it fun, even to this day. Probably will continue to find it fun for years. I think in the future I may invest in a domain website as a HUB for the hobby in general, but I don't know what to exactly make of it yet since I still have so much time to think about it. All I know is that the domain is up for grabs, it's dirt cheap, and it could be a fresh start for me.

Those are my main reasons. I'm also aware that during my run there was (and still is) a small group of people that hate my guts. I know who they are, and they know who they are. They didn't influence my decision to leave, but if they're still roaming around: ''Hello Idem, I know you're still alive. Sorry you hate us all for blocking you years ago, not like I had anything to do with it.''

For who's next in terms of power, that'd be User:Big the cat 10 who takes my spot in central power, whose done an exemplary job at his role these past few months. He has all the traits I did but has the benefit of not having my weaknesses like being lazy, being smug, being smug and lazy, the works. I also promoted User:Withersoul 235, I don't think he noticed yet, but I did it so he can help Big while he's currently off when it comes to codes.

Most users would put their regards to their most befriended in some sort of list, but I won't do that sort of thing. You all made my experience a great time since 2015, and for that I think you're all deserving of my notice from start to end. The fact that any of you would frequent this website and take your own time to contribute told me that, even when people were the most pessimistic on the wiki, this place still had a shining light for the future. And with Big taking the wheel, I hope he could take it in a better direction than even I could. I hope you guys have a good future, and keep writing to the best of your abilities.

Thanks for the wild ride! 