Board Thread:2016 - A Year of Unity/@comment-4050367-20160601010102

Hello everyone. By the time you read this, I will no longer be the bureaucrat of Ben 10 Fan Fiction. In fact, I will be the last bureaucrat of this wiki.

This isn't a leaving thread, I'm not "leaving" the wiki. But I am leaving this part of my life, this part of my role on this wiki behind. For some time now, I've considered this and I made it clear in February that I was just about ready to give up my rights. That in the scheme of things, there was nothing more I could truly contribute as a bureaucrat or an administrator. I had given my all, and compared to the sweeping success of Toon, Mig, Ulti, and Yopo, well... simply put, my role has become somewhat irrelevant now.

That said, although getting to this moment wasn't as smooth as I know the admins would have liked, we're here. It's the end of an era for this community. In many ways, I was a true successor to Roads, one of the most respected users of all time on this community. I tried to promote various agendas, and I wanted to make this place better. After its early years, I was tired of the infighting, of the lack of change, and the clear aging of the site. When I was promoted in 2013, I'll admit that there was a part of me that wasn't really surprised. Not the way I was when I became chatmod. In that time, I was promoted due to my efforts to fight the trolls of this community. A year later, I quietly became the bureaucrat of this wiki as to enact change for the better.

2014 - A Year of Change and 2015 - A Year of Community are my legacy as an administrator and bureaucrat on here. Although it took almost two years, I managed to create an environment that demanded attention of others to help make it better. I advocated for wiki cleanup, for community events like Fanon Con, and for kindness for all users. I hope that while not every idea may have happened, while things may not have occured as I hoped or planned, that ultimately my efforts succeeded in changing this wiki for the better, in a way that will put me in a better light when you reflect on my career here once I finish MURDER and say my goodbyes in the future.

Most of all, I hope that I set a precedent for future administrators. There used to be a time when I would have to struggle with my fellow administrators to do things differently. To be more friendly towards new users, to connect with our community. To not seem so distant. To be leaders but also friends and co-writers, and family. I hope I helped all of you in every way I could, whether it was a personal conversation to help your feelings and work out your problems, or to help revert a page back, or delete a number of pages.

It's been a great 3 years, 1 month, 24 days as your administrator, and a humbling 1 year, 10 months, 6 days as bureaucrat (taking place during the 3 years as admin). I hope that I was a great last bureaucrat, and I hope you treat the four administrators with respect and love. They all deserve it, and they have my highest respect and love. Admins, just don't get mad if I'm asking you to do things like rename pages or delete them. Also - please don't block me lol.

With that said, thank you all for being a loyal community, and I look forward to being just "one of the regular, non-rights users" for the first time since September 2012. And now, a quote... to end this off.

"Around here, however, we don’t look backwards for very long. We keep moving forward, opening up new doors and doing new things, because we're curious...and curiosity keeps leading us down new paths."

- Walt Disney

Thank you. 