Four Clans is Under New Management

[+~*Snowy*~+]

After many months of tracking, I finally found Risingstar and asked her to make Syd an admin. Not only did she do this, but she gave me her email in case I needed anything else. What a nice person.

[Umbra]

Funny that... It's actually kinda ironic.

[+~*Snowy*~+]

How so?

[Umbra]

Years pass... I never even meet this admin... Join the site as a complete guest. Become friends... After months upon months of plot planning, character development, going through every little up and down of the members, TRYING to keep it together...

The admin gave up... And when we were pressured... I gave up... The thought is ludicrous to me now. Then... The people who stayed and fought didn't give up, doing something I swore I would do to protect the site's identity... But I didn't... When Kess left, and nothing was going, I finally just got fed up... I let it go..

Then the admin who gave up on it long ago rewards them. The site lives on while I can only watch. It just goes to show... It doesn't matter how you run the race... It's how you finish...

[+~*Snowy*~+]

Awwww, don't be so down about it. I'm happy with just staying a lurker on the site and not RPing. It's not about rewards or punishments, it's about helping the site and the people who love it. =]

[Umbra]

I do though anyway... I can't help it... Sigh...

And yet... I feel happy too. It's strange... It wasn't just an rp site to me... It was gathering of people with common ideals to write their hearts down through very colorful characters who voiced OUR voices to each other... So that another person, may also hear it. I'm glad thats still around.

I guess I'm sad I lost that... I was really good friends with Kess too... And she never replied back... I wondered if something bad happened to her, and well... There isn't anything I can do about it. I emailed an old email link I managed to dig up from my Morrowind site... No visit... No reply. It's like she disappeared... She said she would give us a goodbye when she decided to truly leave.

But I think I learned something through all the experiences I had there. Maybe I will take up writing as an career opportunity... Maybe I'll write that book about how I intended the plot to be.

Do you want to help me?

[+~*Snowy*~+]

Pfft. Of course I will, silly! Allow me to be your editor and critic and I'll make your story shine. Just don't expect me to sugar-coat anything ;P

[Rain]

Oh yeah, I saw she went on and Syd was an admin! That's so cool that you tracked her down. =3 Can I ask how you did it?

Although to be honest I'm a bit confused...I saw a thread Syd started that said she had the admin title but no powers, the same situation as BenRK...did that get fixed then?

Although I have to be honest; I'm almost sad that there is an admin now...because it seems like no matter what people say and how much they don't want things to change, it ends up changing, and having a real admin just accelerates and empowers that process. And I'm sad because it's not going to be the same Four Clans I joined anymore...not that it really was when I left. To be brutally honest, i've gone back on there and I've read some things, mostly in the OOC boards...and I think I'm almost glad I'm not on there anymore.

And I guess some selfish, whiny little part of me thinks it's not really fair how we had to work hard and build up that community without an admin and to make Four Clans flourish, all while wishing every once in a while that we had a real admin...And then we leave when the site we loved so much starts to die, starts to get taken over by other hands as our old friends slowly leave...and eventually we leave too, because Four Clans is really not the same place it was before -- at least, not for me. And to be honest, I started to get really irritated with some of the newer members that to me thought they were all that, especially the people who kept trying to bring in new plots and mini-plots everywhere when we had a perfectly awesome plot already in place that people were just too lazy to figure out. And then, after we finally leave the place that's no longer Four Clans, Risingstar comes on and gives them admin powers. I don't know...call me selfish, because I probably am...but to me, it just seems so unfair that these new members who I feel tried to push us aside get rewarded by taking charge of the site we got up and running...

*sigh* I just had to get that out there, because that's been sitting on my chest for a long time...

But on a much happier note, a book about how the plot should have been would be awesome Tangle. I've always wanted to know how it'd end. =3 x3

[+~*Snowy*~+]

You guys are making me feel like I have the purest soul here ;; . And the story is so embarrassing, it makes me feel like a stalker.

Okay, so I saw Risingstar's AIM on her profile, so I typed it in on Google. I got directed to her DeviantArt, but like a lot of her stuff, it was abandoned, but I saw her homepage was another RP site, so I went there, but she wasn't there either. Then I saw that she changed her AIM and added a YIM, so I figured that since those two were more recent I should type in those two on Google. I did, and I was directed to another proboards site, in which, in her signature, she had a link to her Gaia profile. And, to my luck, her profile said she'd been on recently. So I used my own profile to PM her and sure enough, we can all see the results now.

I feel so accomplished. And creepy.

[Umbra]

I'm just a little perplexed Snowy. I feel like I didn't get the chance to finish something I put a lot of effort in is all. Kind of like I was cheated... It's not that I can't let it go, I just feel a little iffy.

[Umbra]

And to be honest, I felt exactly like that Rain... Your right... Its good to get up and say it. If you don't, it just simmers.

Even Motts seems different... Like she acted like we betrayed her or something... Like being in charge of the site did something... I don't know... Still chat with her though.

[Rain]

Wow Snowy, I have to admit that's impressive. xD

I gotta agree with Umbra. I don't know if it's necessarily that I feel cheated...I was always fine with just being a member. But I feel like other people -- like Umbra, and even you Snowy -- got cheated, and that really bothers me. Plus, it's not necessarily that...honestly, I'm just bothered that some of those people on there -- I won't name names -- who annoyed me and annoy me even more now that I go back and read their posts are the people who are going to get to be admins now.

...And now I just feel like I'm a bitter jerk. >.<

EDIT: Yeah, I used to really like Motts...but now, she seems a lot angrier and yeah, she sounds like she blames us for betraying her.

And no double postie please? ^-^"

[+~*Snowy*~+]

Wow. And usually I'm the bitter one. I just felt that Four Clans deserved to get cleaned up a little, archive the old threads, delete inactive members, that kinda stuff. I wanted to give the guys one last gift, a sort of parting present. I dunno, I guess the difference is I left completely of my own accord, but I guess you guys feel like you were pushed out?

[Rain]

I dunno....I mean, I guess it's a good thing that they have admin powers for that stuff. But the problem is, they'll use it for other stuff too, other stuff that I feel like will completely change Four Clans. I mean, I went on today and already saw plans to make more boards. And I guess that's a good thing, but I'm the kind of person that stubbornly clings to things, and I guess that's what I'm doing with the old Four Clans.

And as for leaving...part of it was on my own accord, yes. I was losing muse and losing interest. But on the other hand, I really felt like the "new generation" was almost, like you said, pushing us out.

[+~*Snowy*~+]

They're already planning on making new boards? *facepalm* I thought they'd at least try to clean the site up first. It makes me go all mother hen and want to say, "Here, I'll archive this stuff for you, okay sweetie?"