Why, hello there! My name is Awesome335. Here is a brief history of my wiki career thus far:
'''If you want to contact me, you can find me on wikia.'''
Please note that I do not mean to cause offense to the new wiki or any of its users. I am attempting to write a factual history of my wiki career. If you have any questions, corrections or complaints, please contact me [[User talk:Awesome335|here]].
==Discovery==
I first found the wiki when it was still on wikia, in June of 2010. I began editing as an IP address. When the community moved off of wikia, I moved off with them and created this account. I made many new friends, such as Chill57181, Cp kid, and Lm34gt45.
=="Defection"==
After many fun months on wikia, I went back to wikia, originally for just a short visit, a pilgrimage of a sort, to review the wiki's ancestry. When I got there, I was shocked to see that the wiki had fallen into disrepair. Vandals, rumor pages, spammers, bullies, all running rampant among the once-great wiki with nobody to stop them. I began to try to fix the articles as an anonymous user, facing criticism and threats from those who had known nothing but this. Finally, I created an account on wikia.
==Creation==
When I created my wikia account, I started to help edit more. However, there were several users working against me. As there were no active administrators on the wiki, I asked the wikia staff to block them. They accepted. All of a sudden, I had an idea: request adminship from the wikia staff. If I got adminship, I would be able to take care of this very easily. So I went to Dopp, one of the wikia staff. And lo and behold: someone else had the same idea. I ceased my bid for adminship, because I was afraid that Dopp would see me just as someone who had gotten the idea from the first requester (ShrimpPin), and not someone who was actually wanting to help. ShrimpPin was promoted, and as his first associate, he selected Bman2007Jazz. I was a bit annoyed at this, but I waited. I was sure that eventually, the time would come.
==Promotion==
My prediction was eventually proven correct. My promotion was suggested to Dopp by Shrimp, as Bman was not as active as Shrimp had hoped. I was promoted to admin on June 1, 2011, and eventually to bureaucrat on June 4 of that same year. We took care of the wiki to the best of our abilities, but we agreed that 3 admins were not enough. As if in answer to our problems, 5 users from the new wiki, Chill57181, Cp kid, Scrollbars (Tux), Cooldude254, and Brookelas, came to help us in our endeavors. Though they were not the longest-lasting of all administrators, they helped us, and that was enough.
==Seduction==
In early July, the new wiki became aware that some of their users were disappearing. They came to wikia and advertised (it's true) the "new and better wiki". However, we refused to move and fought back. Though they managed to recover some of their users, the bulk of the wikia community stayed on wikia. Sadly, at this point, the new wiki began interfering in our affairs. Those who still had rights were challenging and undoing our promotions and demotions. We managed to convince them to leave us alone for a while, but in our hearts, we knew that they wouldn't stay away forever.
==The Dark Days of Awesome==
After the new wiki situation, I became aware of the growing dislike of some members of the admin body, such as myself. At which point, I decided to test the community and see if they were pleased by the administration or not. I created a blog post saying that I might step down if they were dissatisfied with me, and I asked them to submit their opinions in the form of blog comments. I was pleased to see that though there were some new wiki users who were clearly displeased with me, most of the community was satisfied with the way we were performing, and I decided to stay.
==War==
I began logging periodically on the new wiki IRC to make sure they weren't hatching any evil plans to annoy me or anything. But some users were. I had a gaggle of haters that took every opportunity to yell and swear at me, such as Iamred and Sk8rbluscat. One of their more famous lines was "go <censored> a duck".
On September 18th, 2011, I declared war by making a list of people who I considered my enemies (which I have now learned from). I was blocked infinitely on the new wiki. The next day, Bman, Shrimp, Bopper31415 and I went on the new wiki IRC to hold the first battle of the war. A link to the log is here: http://pastebin.com/QDRC2HUE
I determined that LM96's IRC bans on Bman, Bopper and I were unjust, so I attempted to remove his rights. But Bman said no, and arranged my demotion with Shrimp on the chat. I decided that I would rather demote myself than be forcibly demoted (idk why), so I ended (or not) my wiki career in disgrace.
==Return==
I was gone and without rights for 45 days until I saw that the wiki needed me again. ShrimpPin had been hacked by someone (I suspect Sk8rbluscat as the evildoer) and had promoted Sk8r. Shrimp promoted me the next day, and I demoted Sk8r. Since Shrimp and Bman were rather inactive, I decided to promote Penguinstorm300 and Sdgsgfs (Wolfgangs) to admin, as well as Happy65 (Rockhopperfan) to rollback and mod. Sadly, Penguinstorm300 started a sea of strange and rather unnecessary promotions. We tried to make him stop, but he got angry at me. He also got in arguments with many users, including Sdgsgfs and myself. However, he did some good things for the wiki, so we tolerated him. When he moved to America, he became inactive, and we convinced Dopp to remove his rights due to abuse (cheating in the achievements system, vandalizing).
==New Age==
After PS300 left, there was a new administration consisting of myself, Sdgsgfs, Penguin-Pal, and ShrimpPin. Many deserving users were found and promoted during this era, including Shay Dow/155cyndaquil/Psaro the Penguinslayer, CHOWDER2000/Puffleagent5, Dps04, Welcome00, Hey.youcp and Shurow. Sadly, our peace stopped there. On February 14, 2012, my impersonator was discovered. I was talking to my friends on the chat when several new wiki administrators confronted me for trolling on the new wiki. I told them that I had no idea what they were talking about, which was true. My impersonator on IRC claimed that I had breast cancer. A log of this conversation is here: http://pastebin.com/yEhNtpi2
I once again resigned in disgrace after this incident. I know that it wasn't a good time, but I was frustrated that nobody seemed to trust that I didn't vandalize the new wiki. I returned the next day once I explained what had happened to my colleagues.
==COPPA Crisis==
The administration finally realized that many of the users were COPPA, so we began to crack down, issuing hard blocks that didn't expire until they were thirteen, as opposed to blocking them just for a week or a month. Sadly though, because of COPPA, we were losing many good users, so the few COPPA supporters remaining gave in and let the COPPA people be unblocked.
''To be continued...''
==Me==
==Me==
Revision as of 17:58, 6 August 2014
If you want to contact me, you can find me on wikia.
