Who Got Demoted and Why

[John]

I didn't get demoted. I stepped down because I lost a coin flip with Scrolls. I just thought it would be funny to title the thread like that. I've been here for five and a half years. Banned for a year and a couple months in change, and staff for a little over two years. I have learned a lot in my year and a half of being on the board and I am appreciative of the opportunity. I made a lot of really great friends that I hope to still call my friends for many years to come. Making a dude eat a cucumber to get unbanned (twice) and being able to hop onto TTT once in a blue moon to RDM was fun. 

 

Truth be told, I was never really a server orientated kind of dude. I became admin because I played on Surf and loved it deeply. Sure, I loved to launch and work on new servers but what I really liked was the forums, Discord, Teamspeak, and the general community side of things when it came to this place. I would like to think that that is where I thrived. I worked on SurfDM with Delirium and although the server never really took off, I had a blast doing it. I loved working on the configs or finding new plugins in order to make the server a better place. The Team Fortress 2 and Squad servers were something I always wanted to do and I am happy I was able to launch them. They're both in good hands now as they have been for several months. There's much more I could talk about but my point is that I loved to help out wherever I could. 

 

At some point I didn't really feel like doing anything anymore. I started having trouble coming up with new ideas and my passion to get anything done vanished. It didn't stop at SG. That's just how I felt for a while and I still do feel like that. I grew attached to the Staff Discord because it was a really fun place to just talk to people. I spent most of my time in the higher up general chat. Had countless amounts of great times with people. A lot of good laughs and I'm going to miss that. I am happy that I was able to bring people up the staff ranks and I am proud of them. There have been countless times where I wanted to step down but I always powered through it and just convinced myself that I would stick around for a little longer. Back in June I messaged Gator asking to step down and he convinced me to reconsider. It worked because he's very charming. I stuck around until now. I didn't really do much in these past couple of months. I did whatever I could here and there. I decided that it was time for me to go. I had a good run and I feel like someone else who is passionate should take my spot instead of me occupying it and doing nothing. I don't really have much else to say. It's a very lackluster farewell thread because I suck at writing stuff like this. Thank you to everyone who has helped me out in these past couple of years of  being staff. I'll still be around on the forums and Discord so I won't be going away completely. 

 

 

 

[Poke]

 

[Strayyz]

 

damn...

 

again good luck with everything bro

[Acer]

Forever my Manager

 

o7

 

Hope to still see you around. :,)

[oSen]

[Kieran]

good work here john enjoy the retirement

 

[20 scrolls]

is this a plot to get the community against me?

 

John you are one of the few higher ups who I could trust with anything, I am really glad to have met you here. Thank you for being there when I needed it.

 

And remember, s&box coming out in a year or so.

[Bondairy]

Thanks for everything you've done here, Good luck on future endeavors John!

[Borya]

cya around homie  

 

o7

[Noxstar]

john gone.

 

Stage 1 of grief.