Dracophile
19 October 2007, 06:03 AM
EDIT: Don't quote this please. Thanks.
I was "raised" on the Internet through the teachings of Spiv. The Electronic Gaming Monthly columnist Seanbaby taught me everything I know about horrible video games. I learned everything I know about how the Internet works thanks to Lowtax and Something Awful.
RFS, how on Earth did you even get involved with Miniclip much less being in charge of a forum designated for a children's computer game?
Short Answer: I don't know.
Long Answer: It's a mix of personality, attitude, and knowledge. I'd like to tell you that I am a completely honest and sincere person, but in reality I'm just some bizarre Internet personality who just knows how to get something done. I've got a job, and I'm going to see to it that it is executed with medical precision.
I joined Miniclip in 2004, shortly after we had purchased a dotcom for my website. I joined while I was playing Robot Rage, and was banned by JediSkipDogg for being rude to other users. By "being rude" I mean explaining why their ideas were completely impossible and unrealistic... but in a rude manner. I know you all hate users who do nothing but antagonize and made other people mad. Well, I was one of those people. In fact, I was part of a "trolling group", and for a long time I just picked on users who stuck out in the crowd. I made a lot of people leave the forums, and only a few of them where honestly bad users. I event went as far as to pick apart users in website articles.
Somewhere around the turn of 2006 I felt awfully bad for acting like such a jerk, so I put my past behind me and I stopped bothering the Administrators when injustices were had, and I stopped hitting people repeatedly, especially while they were down. I wasn't going to just rejoin a new account. No. I kept the name RFS, and I kept my history as my own punishment for being an outright troll. While I was in "rehab" posting, I came up with the ideas for Miniclip's "The Gallery" forum, by persuading Ben that it would be a beneficial addition. I also pushed for the automated signature limits, the [sigpic] thing that everyone here loves so much, lol. That was my doing.
I quit making fun of people for being uneducated in PC tech support, and instead told people what was wrong with their systems. Club Penguin entered the community and I felt the symptoms of withdrawal. I wanted to bite so badly. It was March 2006, and "the Infection" was starting to take over. It took a lot of will power for me to not e-punch someone in the face over the Internet like I had been doing -- it was so easy. I clenched my teeth and faked a smile as I silently did absolutely nothing, and could do nothing, about the new users who were lowering the average age of the forums.
By the time May 2006 had rolled around the forums were falling into disrepair. It was also at this time that a new Moderator was chosen. Yes, at one point in time "The Dragministrator" was actually the "Dragmoderator". I wore the "orange name", and the second it was given to me it was like I walked into the movie Kindergarten Cop. I looked around, scoped out the situation, and started to clean up the mess. As I soon found out, once you cleaned it up and moved on, someone would just recreate it. Something needed to be done about all of this. After three months of putting people in "time out" I signed an important piece of paper that effectively secured command over the forums, but mostly Club Penguin.
Do you all love the Infraction system? Because I did that.
Do you all love the "new" Club Penguin forums? Because I did that.
What Ben and the others had seen in me was just one simple, but hugely important trait: knowledge. I knew how to use vBulletin software and I knew how to fix the ailing community. Even though my prior experience in running large-scale communities boils down to a great big "ZERO", I had spent enough time on Something Awful to know how stuff works. Yes, you heard me right. I Administrate this place in the same fashion as a satire/comedy website for adults, minus the bad words.
I took up this job because I felt pity for the community. Nobody else wanted to touch the "penguins", and everyone took pot shots at the users. I remember how brutally rude some of the Miniclip users were. As much as people say that I "hate" Club Penguin and think everyone here are a bunch of idiots, it's not true, and these are just rumors spread by pathetic individuals who get off at making others feel miserable, just like what I used to do. By taking this position I became the target for everything that I used to do to people, and I felt that I deserved everything that I got. No, I didn't take this job because I may or may not be getting paid to do this; I took this job because deep down in my blackened reptilian heart I actually cared. You guys are all young, and this forum is probably some users' first experiences with the Internet and posting on a forum. I want to make that experience a GOOD one.
I don't like to brag or build myself up, because I don't really like that behavior, I hate it when others do it, but I can only imagine what would have happened if I wasn't there to catch the community on my shoulders when it started to fall down. The other Administrators really were not hired to run the community. They're just web designers or customer support representatives. Of course, nobody knows for sure, and I don't want to make it sound like that if it weren't for me then this community would have died. Who knows, something else may have happened, or you all would have ended up here anyways. The last thing that I want to happen is to sound like I'm gloating about myself and how great I am, but really just take a step back and look at the whole picture.
Where would you be if I didn't catch the place on my wings?
Would you even have a forum to post in?
Some of you are too new to even remember the forums WITHOUT me in charge of them. To a lot of you I'm some grandfatherly figure that you assume has been here forever, when I reality I've only really been with Club Penguin for a year and a half (already?!). Not many people are left that can say "yeah I remember Club Penguin's forums without RFS at the wheel". It would be hard for you to even begin to imagine how this place would have worked out had I not been there to build up the very service you're using right now.
I might be a bad person, and I might be a rather disturbing individual when it comes to me saying that komodo dragons are "cute", and I might have a little bit of a shameful past on the Internet, but look at what I can do. I lived down the stigma of being an annoyance and now I'm able to actually do something GOOD for once.
Hello, my name is Radio F Software, and welcome to my world. :cool:
I was "raised" on the Internet through the teachings of Spiv. The Electronic Gaming Monthly columnist Seanbaby taught me everything I know about horrible video games. I learned everything I know about how the Internet works thanks to Lowtax and Something Awful.
RFS, how on Earth did you even get involved with Miniclip much less being in charge of a forum designated for a children's computer game?
Short Answer: I don't know.
Long Answer: It's a mix of personality, attitude, and knowledge. I'd like to tell you that I am a completely honest and sincere person, but in reality I'm just some bizarre Internet personality who just knows how to get something done. I've got a job, and I'm going to see to it that it is executed with medical precision.
I joined Miniclip in 2004, shortly after we had purchased a dotcom for my website. I joined while I was playing Robot Rage, and was banned by JediSkipDogg for being rude to other users. By "being rude" I mean explaining why their ideas were completely impossible and unrealistic... but in a rude manner. I know you all hate users who do nothing but antagonize and made other people mad. Well, I was one of those people. In fact, I was part of a "trolling group", and for a long time I just picked on users who stuck out in the crowd. I made a lot of people leave the forums, and only a few of them where honestly bad users. I event went as far as to pick apart users in website articles.
Somewhere around the turn of 2006 I felt awfully bad for acting like such a jerk, so I put my past behind me and I stopped bothering the Administrators when injustices were had, and I stopped hitting people repeatedly, especially while they were down. I wasn't going to just rejoin a new account. No. I kept the name RFS, and I kept my history as my own punishment for being an outright troll. While I was in "rehab" posting, I came up with the ideas for Miniclip's "The Gallery" forum, by persuading Ben that it would be a beneficial addition. I also pushed for the automated signature limits, the [sigpic] thing that everyone here loves so much, lol. That was my doing.
I quit making fun of people for being uneducated in PC tech support, and instead told people what was wrong with their systems. Club Penguin entered the community and I felt the symptoms of withdrawal. I wanted to bite so badly. It was March 2006, and "the Infection" was starting to take over. It took a lot of will power for me to not e-punch someone in the face over the Internet like I had been doing -- it was so easy. I clenched my teeth and faked a smile as I silently did absolutely nothing, and could do nothing, about the new users who were lowering the average age of the forums.
By the time May 2006 had rolled around the forums were falling into disrepair. It was also at this time that a new Moderator was chosen. Yes, at one point in time "The Dragministrator" was actually the "Dragmoderator". I wore the "orange name", and the second it was given to me it was like I walked into the movie Kindergarten Cop. I looked around, scoped out the situation, and started to clean up the mess. As I soon found out, once you cleaned it up and moved on, someone would just recreate it. Something needed to be done about all of this. After three months of putting people in "time out" I signed an important piece of paper that effectively secured command over the forums, but mostly Club Penguin.
Do you all love the Infraction system? Because I did that.
Do you all love the "new" Club Penguin forums? Because I did that.
What Ben and the others had seen in me was just one simple, but hugely important trait: knowledge. I knew how to use vBulletin software and I knew how to fix the ailing community. Even though my prior experience in running large-scale communities boils down to a great big "ZERO", I had spent enough time on Something Awful to know how stuff works. Yes, you heard me right. I Administrate this place in the same fashion as a satire/comedy website for adults, minus the bad words.
I took up this job because I felt pity for the community. Nobody else wanted to touch the "penguins", and everyone took pot shots at the users. I remember how brutally rude some of the Miniclip users were. As much as people say that I "hate" Club Penguin and think everyone here are a bunch of idiots, it's not true, and these are just rumors spread by pathetic individuals who get off at making others feel miserable, just like what I used to do. By taking this position I became the target for everything that I used to do to people, and I felt that I deserved everything that I got. No, I didn't take this job because I may or may not be getting paid to do this; I took this job because deep down in my blackened reptilian heart I actually cared. You guys are all young, and this forum is probably some users' first experiences with the Internet and posting on a forum. I want to make that experience a GOOD one.
I don't like to brag or build myself up, because I don't really like that behavior, I hate it when others do it, but I can only imagine what would have happened if I wasn't there to catch the community on my shoulders when it started to fall down. The other Administrators really were not hired to run the community. They're just web designers or customer support representatives. Of course, nobody knows for sure, and I don't want to make it sound like that if it weren't for me then this community would have died. Who knows, something else may have happened, or you all would have ended up here anyways. The last thing that I want to happen is to sound like I'm gloating about myself and how great I am, but really just take a step back and look at the whole picture.
Where would you be if I didn't catch the place on my wings?
Would you even have a forum to post in?
Some of you are too new to even remember the forums WITHOUT me in charge of them. To a lot of you I'm some grandfatherly figure that you assume has been here forever, when I reality I've only really been with Club Penguin for a year and a half (already?!). Not many people are left that can say "yeah I remember Club Penguin's forums without RFS at the wheel". It would be hard for you to even begin to imagine how this place would have worked out had I not been there to build up the very service you're using right now.
I might be a bad person, and I might be a rather disturbing individual when it comes to me saying that komodo dragons are "cute", and I might have a little bit of a shameful past on the Internet, but look at what I can do. I lived down the stigma of being an annoyance and now I'm able to actually do something GOOD for once.
Hello, my name is Radio F Software, and welcome to my world. :cool: