Resignation

When I decided to resign partway through July, I had two reasons behind it. The first was, of course, that I'm heading off to college - I didn't feel I could afford to give both the community and my college studies the attention they both deserved, so I reluctantly chose to resign and focus on my future.

However, the second reason has been nagging me for more than a year. Through most of my time as a Head Admin (now known as Administrator), I'd always felt I wasn't performing up to snuff. I did what I felt needed doing, I helped out everyone I could, but I always had the sense I wasn't quite doing the job expected of me, given the amounts of work I regularly saw put in by the other HAs. I kept quiet about this and kept plodding along, but lately I've felt it's been getting worse, and with college coming up, I knew my activity could only drop, so I chose to resign. It wasn't fair to the community to continue sitting on my rank as I grew more and more out of touch with it.

I've been extremely touched by the amount of people who have sought me out to thank me for the time I've put in and the work I've done. I have many, many friends here, and many others who I don't know as well but would like to - I fully intend to stick around even though I've resigned, and if/when I do leave, I won't forget the time I've spent here.

Iguana was the one who first promoted me to operator, after he recognized me from when I joined a vanilla server he'd put up a few days prior. I'm not capitalizing "operator" because there were only three ranks - players, operators, and high staff, and ingame there was no difference between the last two. The high staff included TheOne, LG_Legacy, and Joshuam08, although I think there were others. Perhaps Sade was one too, but I don't remember if he actually was or if he was just well-liked.

There was only the Lava Server. The operator commands were /op, /deop, /kick, /ban, and /say. Few people used the forums, so they weren't so much an information hub as a community center. Hell, for a few weeks I wasn't even aware they nor the IRC chat even existed. The IRC chat's address was handed out on a whim, without any confirmation of if anyone was staff. A few of you may be old enough to remember the nuke command, which made the server output (unsupported) ASCII and crash everyone's client.

Eventually we stretched out to a Build Server (which proceeded to go up and down constantly). Sade vanished, LG_Legacy derped around on other servers and resigned. san00b rocketed the fuck up the ranks and made everyone flip a shit. I got Head Admin on October 1st, 2010. Deadl0ck joined me on the 22nd. TheOne derped around on his own servers, apologized, and stepped down. At that point, we felt we needed a new name.

Oh, and apparently on December 31st, Yuck's (alleged) wife (allegedly) gave birth to an (alleged) son. VERY LATE CONGRATULATIONS YUCK!

Now that we've hit the name change, I can probably stop, since most of you know a fair bit of this. But I WILL provide the NEVER BEFORE SEEN (except by those in it) LOG OF WHEN WE FIRST STARTED THE #BLOCKTOPIA CHANNEL!

Full log:

Session Start: Fri Dec 03 23:40:42 2010
Session Ident: #blocktopia
* Now talking in #blocktopia
* Topic is 'BlockTopia's Community Chat || http://www.blocktopia.net || Feel free to idle, or ping an OP if you need something. || Our TeamSpeak 3 Server: theonetalk.dyndns.org:9987 || Guests: please DO NOT ask for staff-only channel names!'
* Set by Dead-gone!nnscript@ip5653b35d.direct-adsl.nl on Fri Dec 03 19:26:35
* ChanServ sets mode: +o PickYerPoison
* drupal (drupal@CPE-124-182-175-1.lns6.pie.bigpond.net.au) has joined #blocktopia
<@PickYerPoison> What a dumb name.
<drupal> ^
<drupal> hy
* UltimateBudgie (chatzilla@c122-107-229-26.mckinn3.vic.optusnet.com.au) has joined #blocktopia
* san00b (sinatra@c-68-41-218-251.hsd1.mi.comcast.net) has joined #blocktopia
* ChanServ sets mode: +vo UltimateBudgie san00b
<+UltimateBudgie> VOP list was transfered :O
* Adstar (adstar94@41.167.dsl.mel.iprimus.net.au) has joined #blocktopia
<@PickYerPoison> Block. Fucking. Topia.
<@PickYerPoison> Oh dear god.
<Adstar> lol
<@san00b> Deadl0ck took quite a bit of time setting up all the news channels.
<@PickYerPoison> I just can't get over this name.
<@PickYerPoison> It's just
<@PickYerPoison> there
<@PickYerPoison> In the way
<@PickYerPoison> Like a brick wall of annoyance
<@san00b> Doesn't matter, know why? We're getting frontpaged on crafthub.
<@san00b> Name doesn't matter.
<@san00b>
<@PickYerPoison> XD
<+UltimateBudgie> for Buildtopia's Build server
<+UltimateBudgie> Wut
<@PickYerPoison> Sigh.
<+UltimateBudgie> That's what the new Build Staff Channel says :O
<@PickYerPoison> Goodbye, 6.51MB log of the Lava Server chat.
<@PickYerPoison> We have a new name now. ;(
<+UltimateBudgie> xD
<+UltimateBudgie> Heh
<+UltimateBudgie> The staff channels are so predictable
<@PickYerPoison> Indeed.
<Adstar> Pfft, 6.51mb isn't much
<@PickYerPoison> It's enough to make Notepad take 30-60 seconds to load it.
* drupal flops his 70 MB log of #minecraft on the table
<@PickYerPoison> What the hell.
<@PickYerPoison> You can't even OPEN that.
<@PickYerPoison> It'll just crash Notepad.
<drupal> nope
<drupal> well
<drupal> I can't now
<drupal> I lost it
<drupal> in reformat
<@PickYerPoison> Aha
<@PickYerPoison> So you DON'T have a 70MB log.
<drupal> rip
<drupal> well, I did
<drupal> and it did indeed open
<Adstar> I have a 64mb log
<drupal> well
<drupal> it's technically still stored on the disk I guess
<@san00b> Actually, I'm not going to close the forums yet.
<@san00b> I don't have a good under construction page handy for the new site.
<@san00b> I'll just do it all tomorrow.
<@san00b> Let the people mingle in the last few hours of theonemcft
<drupal> what's wrong with index.html: DERP ?
<drupal> HURP, even
<@PickYerPoison> san00b, why did we name the community this?
<@PickYerPoison> It's ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
<@PickYerPoison> Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwww
<@san00b> It's better than TheOne's
<@PickYerPoison> Ewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww
<@PickYerPoison> I'll undoubtedly get used to it eventually, but right now it just seems so corny.
<@san00b> Craftopia: Taken 2 days ago. Terracraft: Taken. Bricktopia: Taken. TheMineshaft: Taken.
<@san00b> Shall I continue?
<@san00b> I was all behind blockpunchers tbh
<@PickYerPoison> But TheFonz
<@PickYerPoison> Or Slendercraft
<@PickYerPoison> Or PickYerPoison's Flying Server
Session Time: Sat Dec 04 00:00:00 2010
<@PickYerPoison> ...Service?
<+UltimateBudgie> Or Not
<@san00b> Anyways I'm off for now
<@san00b> Lots to do tomorrow
* san00b (sinatra@c-68-41-218-251.hsd1.mi.comcast.net) Quit (Quit: (www.nnscript.com :: NoNameScript 4.22 :: www.esnation.com ))
* +UltimateBudgie (chatzilla@c122-107-229-26.mckinn3.vic.optusnet.com.au) Quit (Quit: Winners never Win; Quitters never quit; Budgie fails at KingSam (And at Spelling) (ESPECIALLY SPALLING))
* Kevin_28|Away is now known as Kevin_28
* Joshuam08-AWAY (Joshuam08@220-245-135-48.tpgi.com.au) Quit (Quit: Leaving)
Session Close: Sat Dec 04 02:05:11 2010

I'm not really a "shoutout" kinda guy, so I'm not going to write any. If I took the time to write a personal shoutout to the rest of the friends I've made here, I'd still be writing by the time the college schoolyear begins. But just know that if you think of me as a friend, I almost certainly think the same of you. I've always considered anyone I didn't know as a friend until they gave me a reason not to like them; that's just how I operate.

I also know I have probably offended a number of you in the past. If that's the case, I deeply apologize; except in a few rare cases, I probably didn't intend to. Except for you. Yeah, YOU. You right there. Get out of here, nobody likes you.

Ahem. To conclude, I've had a wonderful time here, and I'd like to thank you all for making it such.

And, for those who skipped the first bit, once again, I am not leaving the community. I am simply resigning.

This is now Pick Yer Poison, former Head Administrator, signing out.

T_T

Well, you've been a great HA, and there should be no reason to think you weren't. Best wishes for college, however! I'm glad you're sticking around as well (=

It's been a long journey, farewell friend!

Best of luck with your studies!

I want to say that college isn't all that hard, but I go to community college and am only a vetop, so what do I know about being able to give your attention to two things?

Anyway, best of luck. Go knock them dead.

Pick ;_; Farewell, old buddy

So the community name changed about 20 days before I first got Premium...
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Ignore that, that was me thinking to myself. Don't worry, you've done well here! It's good that you're staying, too! But sad to see ya resign. You've been Admin for longer than I've had premium and when I first joined here a year ago.

I know you aren't leaving but... *sob, sob* Ill still miss your colored name.
Best of luck in college and the future!

Best of luck in college, you were a great admin and we'll miss your crazy IRC antics.

bye Pick! Have fun with College and you were a great Admin as the others say. And remember college is supposed to be the fun part of life from what i was told

And it's all come down to this...
Bye Pick, good luck in college/life.
If you ever thought you were under working, you never were. Have fun in college and I hope the best.

-Stretford01

Sad to see you resign. You were an amazing Admin, and I hope you have fun at college

Sad to see you resign....

But glad you are staying here

I think you made a great Head Admin to this community, I hope you enjoy and do well at College!

Thanks for everything.
You were probably the friendliest HA out there in my opinion at least. It was a pleasure having you. Good luck with college.
EDIT: I will miss those lovely picture-posts you did for PSA's.
Now we will teach you the way of the creeper. >:3

Good luck in college!
I'll cya round o/

Good luck in college pick!
And ill always remember that one time when i set my birthday on the forums to say i was 23 and i asked you to fix it and you said sure and you did and i said you were the greatest hc ever :3
Cya around o/

Welcome to the club, Pick. Top hats and false moustaches to the left.

But really, good job doing what you did for the community. I really hope I run into you one of the rare times I get on TeamSpeak.

Bye Pick! Sad to see you resign, best of luck in your studies!

Best wishes in college Pick. I'm so relieved your still staying in the community though!

Bye Bud! You did much work for the community!

Farewell PYP for the record I thought you were one of the best HAs.Hope to see you around bye bye!

Sad to se you resign but meh its college we cant al stay here playing a Minecraft game forever. (or can we?) You were a huge part if the community and its glad t see you still stay