hongkongfuey
09-Sep-2006, 10:19 PM
After much deliberation, I’ve decided it’s time to leave this site for good.
Almost exactly one year ago, our family made the brave (or foolish, depending on how you look at it) move from Edinburgh, Scotland to New Plymouth, New Zealand. Most things in our life have now changed, including where we live, work, where the kids go to school, our circle of friends and hobbies.
I was involved in the reasonably early days of the site, from November 2002 till last year. Most of the stuff I did was behind the scenes, keeping the site running, tuned and up to date. At that time, as well as the site’s mythical founder known only as Cooler, we had the likes of Andy Murray, Waya, Melanie as well as the mighty Yoda on the moderation team. Topic moderators didn’t exist, because the site was small enough that we could manage without.
Over the last few years the site has grown into one of the top Martial Arts sites in the world. The amount of work that goes on behind the scenes to keep this place running is incredible. Guys like Saz, Kickchick, Freeform, Aegis and Kinjiro Tsukasa go through hell to keep this place afloat often without any thanks. Likewise with the topic moderators and the testing team. Nobody here gets paid for the work they do.
When I left, I remained as an Admin as I thought I might return one day. However, I’ve realized that I’ll never be able to put the time in that a role of an Admin deserves, and I’ve seen that the site is now in safe hands. Shortly MAP will be moving to a new dedicated server, and progress on upgrading the site seems to be going well, so it’s as good a time as any for me to depart.
Best wishes to all that remain, keeping this site true to its ideals. If anyone actually remembers who I am, and wants to stay in touch (or donate to the charity run I’m doing on 1st October) then you can find me at www.frost-family.org (http://www.frost-family.org)
Spare a thought for your friendly neighbourhood moderators. :love:
Almost exactly one year ago, our family made the brave (or foolish, depending on how you look at it) move from Edinburgh, Scotland to New Plymouth, New Zealand. Most things in our life have now changed, including where we live, work, where the kids go to school, our circle of friends and hobbies.
I was involved in the reasonably early days of the site, from November 2002 till last year. Most of the stuff I did was behind the scenes, keeping the site running, tuned and up to date. At that time, as well as the site’s mythical founder known only as Cooler, we had the likes of Andy Murray, Waya, Melanie as well as the mighty Yoda on the moderation team. Topic moderators didn’t exist, because the site was small enough that we could manage without.
Over the last few years the site has grown into one of the top Martial Arts sites in the world. The amount of work that goes on behind the scenes to keep this place running is incredible. Guys like Saz, Kickchick, Freeform, Aegis and Kinjiro Tsukasa go through hell to keep this place afloat often without any thanks. Likewise with the topic moderators and the testing team. Nobody here gets paid for the work they do.
When I left, I remained as an Admin as I thought I might return one day. However, I’ve realized that I’ll never be able to put the time in that a role of an Admin deserves, and I’ve seen that the site is now in safe hands. Shortly MAP will be moving to a new dedicated server, and progress on upgrading the site seems to be going well, so it’s as good a time as any for me to depart.
Best wishes to all that remain, keeping this site true to its ideals. If anyone actually remembers who I am, and wants to stay in touch (or donate to the charity run I’m doing on 1st October) then you can find me at www.frost-family.org (http://www.frost-family.org)
Spare a thought for your friendly neighbourhood moderators. :love: