... but Gaffi jumped out from the bush and announced retirement first ๐Ÿ˜‚

Long story short: I decided to step down from being a moderator. No giveaway, as I was ending my "handover" till today, and I forgot to look for any games to give away. ๐Ÿ˜ถ I notified other mods a few months back (I did post right before 1st of April, and people thought I'm in a different time zone and it's a joke ๐Ÿ˜…), and since then focused on the moderator queue and other bits that had to be done.

I joined support 6 years ago, when I was unemployed university graduate. And had a lot of time on my hands. I remember I waited for so long after Pete poked me about joining the staff that I gave up. And then, 30 min after I wrote that I withdrawn my application, I get a reply they will be adding some staff soon(TM) and if I'm still interested. And I was like ok. Life is unpredictable.

Fast forward 6 years, and I'm no longer unemployed graduate with too much time. I am quite short on time (well I have a bit more, since I no longer do 4h commute to work... but still), and a lot of it was spent on SG. I could not be the most visible mod (especially now when I did none of "simple" re-rolls and deletions), but there can be quite a lot going on in the "background". And I know that if I don't leave entirely, I will go back to "work" here. Can't function in this half-suspended state, where I jump in to solve a few tickets each few months and "forget" otherwise. I learned a lot here and met some amazing people. I even played Mass Effect 3 multiplayer for nearly 300h with another SG user. It was like 7-8 years ago, and it helped me to be more social as an introvert. I was too shy to talk back then, so we were typing through Origin chat to comment on mission progress ๐Ÿคฃ

I won't leave entirely, and surely not delete my account. I do want to make more biology puzzles when I have some time, but will need to look for another hosting website. It'sTooHard died a few years back. Do you remember ITH? Or konrad? Or F5 giveaways? I do feel old. 2004 was 10 year ago, right?

So thank you "old mods" for guiding me, "new mods" for picking up the slack now, and community for being.

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Which pokemon is the best (totally not biased)

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Ditto (this one is pink)
Shiny ditto (this one is blue)

Both Dittos are good Dittos, but only one could get my vote and it was the better one. :D

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oh wow, another bites the dust!

jk; totally understandable you're retiring after so much hard work for the community. Thanks a million for everything you've done and c ya around mskotor!

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I could not be the most visible mod

Odd, IMHO you were one of the most visible mods. At least you did a great job trying to communicate topics in public.
Or maybe I'm confusing you with someone else. ๐Ÿ˜…

Anyway, thanks for your service.

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I was poking into threads with explanations or moderation of those-that-shall-not-be-named-now, that is true. I meant it more as solving general tickets in the past year.

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enjoy life and thank you for your service! I know what moderating can take out of you(I was one on a Chinese MMOs forums before >>)

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Ditto was so "bad" combat-wise. But cute. And due to sheer strength of will overcame their fears! Such a good role model.

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Thankss for all your works, MSKOTOR !

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thank you for your years of service!~

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Good one! I like this one from konrad's time:
https://imgur.com/YQcShiy

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lol, there was so much drama back then. The stats show that there was about 10 times as many discussion threads being created each month back then compared to now.

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Thanks for your time. Hope to see you around. :)

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That's really sad, you were pretty much the only mod who actually bothered to provide detailed answers when situations with vague rules or other stuff occurred.

Thank you, and I wish you to find another fulfilling hobby :)

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Thanks :D

Being in London has one perk, quite a lot of archery clubs. I think to sign up later this year

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archery is fun, wish there was not college related clubs for it around me.

Will never forget acing the archery portion of my college class(this was just to fill a credit!) which made me exempt from the written portion.

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Nie ma takiego miasta London..Lฤ…dek, Lฤ…dek Zdrรณj to tak (:

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Oh...First of all, thank you very much for your dedication so far.๐Ÿ’

and..

=อžอŸอŸอž( ใฃ'ฮ˜')โ•ฎ =อžอŸอŸอžโ—Ž

If so many ๐ŸˆCG๐Ÿ›ธ throw monster balls into Steamgifts, will they fill the big hole you left out?
Hope you can relax and enjoy the time of a single user with no great burden on the community.

I was surprised by this story, but I was also surprised by the Missile alert from North Korea.
No way, you launched it? XD

I'm still too sleepy to understand things, but only surprise tells the truth.๐Ÿ˜ฏ

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Thank you for all the time and support MSKOTOR, hope we will still be seeing you here.:)

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Thank you for your time!

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All the best MSKOTOR. My dealings with you have always been constructive and helpful. Have fun!

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Thanks for your time and service, it was beautiful to read as it reflects what SG really is <3

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To not sound like a broken record: Bye.

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your up next to retire? (i'd love to apply for a mod role if possible)

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I'm not planning to, no. As she said, this was known to us behind the scenes for quite a while and while they all will be missed, us active mods will be able to deal with the tasks at hand. After all we've managed to bring down e.g. "Other" tickets to basically zero from many hundred open ones we had before in the past year. So while it's a lot of work that certainly will take whatever time is needed, I'm confident we'll be able to handle things as a team.
I was mostly just referring to the multiple good byes we've already had in the past few days and instead keep it short. She knows she's going to be missed.

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I'M SO SORRY!

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Thank you both for all you've contributed and done.

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lol

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Congratulations to both of you! :)

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Thanks a bunch for all your hard work

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Oof, another one.. thank you for your time and efforts and keep enjoying SG just as a user again. :)

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Thanks for your efforts in keeping this place steady and enjoy your newly earned free time!

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Thank you for all, that you have done for the SG community, MSKOTOR :)

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4hrs Commute!! Damn. I had to travel 2hrs sometime back and I was miserable to the core, ofc public transport is terrible in my country, zero seats.
As a newbie, havent seen your mod powers at its peak..But you do have sensible takes whenever you pop up in the comments!
So thanks for giving your time to manage this community.
Also glad for your 'no free time left' problem, beats being an unemployed graduate! Wish you the best in your personal life.

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1) The best pokemon is Magikarp. That's just a fact.

2) You're wrong about 2004 being 10 years ago. Because the idea that the 90's is more than 10 years ago feels unacceptable.

3) Thank you for all your hard work.

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Thank you for your service!

It's good that you will post the odd biology puzzle and keep in with the community you helped build.

The April 1st thing was pretty funny xD

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Good luck and thanks for doing a great job.

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Thank you for your service, MSKOTOR! ๐Ÿ‘

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