Tell General Howard I know his heart. What he told me before, I have it in my heart. I am tired of fighting. Our Chiefs are killed; Looking Glass is dead, Ta Hool Hool Shute is dead. The old men are all dead. It is the young men who say yes or no. He who led on the young men is dead. It is cold, and we have no blankets; the little children are freezing to death. My people, some of them, have run away to the hills, and have no blankets, no food. No one knows where they are - perhaps freezing to death. I want to have time to look for my children, and see how many of them I can find. Maybe I shall find them among the dead. Hear me, my Chiefs! I am tired; my heart is sick and sad. From where the sun now stands I will fight no more forever.
ill really miss you man. thanks for giving me a chance to mod again and getting to know you, as you're overall just a really great dude who i would happily work with or for again.
i'm not about goodbyes so i want to think you'll be back; keep in touch.
I know I've said this before, but I'm scared of whoever will replace bronto. Honestly would take arc over some of the people that could get it, and that's pretty sad.
Its ok, I will take up your job as admin of epic mafia .com
I am ready
put me in coach
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rest easy, bronto. You've earned it
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You did a good job stabilising the site after some months of chaos. Can't blame you for getting burn out given how much work that takes. You learnt from your mistakes (everyone makes them) and weren't too stubborn, which is always positive.
Now, come join me on the golden thrones in the sky. Retirement is much more fun. You've earned some enjoyment.
Dan, I'll miss you in the team! It has been such a pleasure to work with you. First in the other team, where I fondly remember the DanDanthe[Redacted] and the femmes fatales. And then the next time we worked together, when you had the tough job to bring the word 'team' back in 'mod team'. But you managed to do that very well, with your positive reinforcement, always asking how we're doing, just being there for us. I'm sad to see you go but I also understand that you need to focus on other things now. I wish you all the best IRL and hope to run into you on EM again. Thank you so much for everything, take care and I hope you'll someday visit the Netherlands where we'll find one of those hidden vineyards I didn't even know we had and enjoy tons of red wine.
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Thanks for all the time and energy you've given to the site, even if I didn't always agree with your decisions or your methodology towards administration I still thought you were a pretty good admin.
You've always been a really great admin over the past few months. You have been patient, intelligent, well spoken and even though I know it wasn't always easy for you, I admire your commitment to everything throughout the past few months. You might be stepping down but you have a lot to be proud of. Even though I didn't work as much as I should have during this time, it was still a pleasure to work with you. Thanks Dan, and I wish you well.
also it was really fun working with you when i was a mod. i was really skeptical about joining the mod team as an actual team member and i wanted to do it solo in a sense, and you did a great job of actually making me feel welcome in the team.
you're very up front and transparent about a lot of things, but i dont think people appreciate you enough for the stuff you do behind the scenes. i hope the new admins carry over the team dynamic you've built up, because i feel like you've worked hard to actually build up that dynamic and it's really beneficial for the mod team as a whole.
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Thanks for everything man, you've been one of my closest friends on the site and I'm going to miss you like crazy. You better come back in a little bit.
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Please make Vancyon an admin, he would be so much better than whoever you probably picked
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Dan, I have so much to thank you for. You’ve been a great admin. I have such deep respect for you and the way you rebuilt the site post-adsense. It’s been a blast working with you. I wish you all the best, and hope that you come back at some point (and soon!) <3
But seriously, I'm just burnt out and am losing interest in moderation. I don't think I've been able to do a good enough job to warrant staying here since I haven't had the time or interest to take care of things as well as I could be. I've noticed the quality of my own modding starting to slip (as well as my performance in my two jobs), and my patience to be professional and represent the team and site well in tough situations has worn thin.
This wasn't brought on by any one particular event, it's been a long time coming and I knew when I took over that I wouldn't be doing it for too long. I wanted to help lucid and the site in a time of need and I think the site (bar inappropriate content) is in a better place than it was before I took over as admin, and even before I got modded.
I will say though that I'm super fortunate to have worked with the people on the mod team, and I'm proud of how well things have gone the past few months internally. I would not have stuck around to mod as long as I had had it not been for the mods and their support. I'm really proud of how the team has come together and especially am proud of the people who I picked out to mod who had never done it before. Big shout out to them and the whole team because they're great and they don't hear that enough.
It's tough to completely leave, and maybe down the road I'll return to mod once/if I ever have more time (although first I'd like to win another trophy). However, for now I plan on taking a break from the site. I probably won't be on skype often at all anymore either.
Thanks for the help guys. The new admin(s) will be announced soon. I won't be saying anything about the change until it is official. Please just hang tight.
Stepping Down as Admin
