My resignation/retirement

[Meowthkip]

To @champthom and @The Hunter both.

I never got to know either of you that well, but I know you contributed a lot.

You will be missed.

 

[c-no]

Not to steal the limelight, but I too am retiring. Considering I rarely ever checked in on this site, it was kind of expected.

As well, this is probably my last post on here because after three years of dicking around on this website, life finally caught up. It used to be I had enough free time to check in on this place every day, sometimes for hours at a time. However, it's gotten to the point where I'm gone for weeks at a time, and when I come back, I wind up not even posting or using the chatbox. For a community I felt some closeness too, I've become retardedly distant from it. I haven't even been keeping track of Chris ever since the first "Chris is totally dead" post. I've lost interest in most of the minor cows posted and posting on here, and stuff like parkourdude91 never really got my attention that well (which turned out to be a hoax anyways, so yeah). I've wanted to leave this site before when I thought three fourths of the userbase was mentally challenged and good for a few kicks, but I've met like minded individuals here who share my passion for silently observing retards, so I stayed. We had good times, we laughed, we... laughed... god there was a lot of laughing... but the site got so disgustingly huge and brought an influx of a new generation of spergs. Again, some cool and decent, some... well, Connor. I have enough friends, family, and enemies to deal with offline, I can't deal with 3,000 more people in my life.

Either which way, I'm sure most of my friends here have all packed up and left a long time ago. So I'm not moderating, I don't have friends on here, I don't find amusement in the userbase anymore, and since I have all this work to deal with offline, I'm pretty much "Never Ever" (c) coming back. If there's one thing I really want to tell you guys, it's don't follow me. I'm becoming more and more selective with the company I keep and I think the people that deserve my companionship are already in contact with me. If I'm doing something like a Skype call with someone and they drag one of you guys in, whatever, but as of now, I'm resuming my position as "nobody" to the people on here. This all sounds a little negative, and honestly, most of the time this place leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth, so yeah. Even for me, it doesn't feel like "a fond farewell to a beloved friend," it seems more like my leaving will be "thank god that dead space is finally filled up." I wasn't exactly a big deal here anyways.

So in short, so long, asswads. Farewell, asslords. Sayonara, assholes. Not sure how that quote goes. It was all kinda fun while it lasted.

I said see ya to Champthom. May as well throw you one as well. See ya The Hunter.

 

[Dilligaff]

I'm a newbie noob and didn't get to interact with you much, but thanks very much for founding and running this place. Despite its stated purpose, it's been one of the more sane spots in the vast intartubes. Good luck with your future endeavors and hope to see you when you drop by!

 

[BOLDYSPICY!]

Everytime I see Charleston Chew™ in the grocery checkout, I crack the hell up.

You will be missed, buddy.

 

[The Dude]

Best of luck Champ. You've done your duty. It's time to go home, put on some Ramones, enjoy a Charleston Chew, and sleep well. Thank you for all that you've done.

 

[Chipmunk With A Banana]

My dear Kiwis,

About four years ago, I was actively admining the CWCki and I had an issue. People would frequently use talk pages to discuss Chris related content, as there was essentially no other place to do so. PVCC was closed off for registration and had no intention of letting "spergs" in to discuss Chris. Likewise, /cwc/ (now /cow/) strongly discouraged Chris discussion as the general consesus was "Chris is over." It made my job more difficult so I decided to do something pratctical - I started a forum where people could discuss Chris without being harassed. My goal was to set it up, get some "locals" to take over running the forum, and then go back to admining on the CWCki itself.

Unfortunately, life has a funny way of working out. Rather than my original plan, I found myself spending my time exclusively on the forum. I ran into an issue of trying to establish legitimacy of the forum. My initial idea was to let anything goes but it was also my intent to avoid the place becoming another Offshore CWCki. I found myself having to set some guidelines and try to maintain a certain image. We moved the forum at least three times, two of them because people TOSed the forums because of a dislike of the way I ran the forum. Some people disagreed with my decision to allow Null to take over hosting. However, while I would no longer have exclusive control, it was an ideal situation - it helped establish an independency to the forum and a check against me. There was a concern that the forums would be merely a front for PVCC and I feel that having Null, who had no connections to PVCC, take over the hosting, it would help address this issue.

Some people disagree with Null for the things he's done, and I disagree with him at times, but I feel like he's been able to help guide the forum in a more efficient manner than I could. The forums no longer became a mere containment for people to talk about Chris but a regular, thriving. People came to this forum and made close relationships, even finding romantic partners. They've found people to play games with, they've helped supporting other users with positive life changes like losing weight, and they're able to express themselves creatively. I eventually concluded that one reason why people feel so strongly about being banned from here is because they feel that it's such a tight knit community and that banning is as extreme as social ostracism from any other community.

The focus of the forums over time was broadened to other lolcows. While I don't really follow other lolcows, there was a demand for that and one of my credos is "give the people what they want." As a result, we've been able to grow without stagnating like other related forums. I feel that our moderation team has greatly improved over time, as we've had less turnover and moderation is efficient and fairly impartial. We're one of the top searches for lolcows on Google. It's also gotten to the point where when people say "CWCki," they no longer associated it with the original wiki but the forums. We managed to have a small connection to the Gamergate controversey. Whereas other lolcow boards devolved into cannablizing their userbase for entertainment, we manage to have active discussion without the need to turn on our own for the sake of finding "the next Chris-chan."

That said, that is why, with heavy heart, I am announcing my resignation as forum admin effective immediately. I wish to emphasize that I am not being coerced or blackmailed into doing this, and I am doing this on my free accord. I feel that the forums are at a point where I can step back without the forums being shut down or somehow devolving into Sonichu rape fanfiction or threads about Chris's bowel movements. I'm also at a point of my life where I'm starting to make positive life changes myself and having to manage an Internet forum devoted to mocking an autistic manchild doesn't really fit into the scheme of things. This is something I've been wanting to do since day 1 and this is a decision I've spent months pondering over and waiting for a moment where it would made in a positive mindset.

From my experience, there's two ways that major players in the Chris scene have ended:

1) They fade into obscurity, never to be seen or heard from again.

2) They turn out to be even worse than Chris himself and usually end up becoming an object of ridicule.

I think with 2, this tends to happen with people who tend to be arrogant and harsh with people. I tend to believe you reap what you sow in that regard. I've made it a policy to try and treat people fairly and impartially and to treat people with respect. I'm probably not the best person in the world for my involvement with Chris, I agree. My attitude is that if I'm going to do something that's probably wrong, I'd rather be a Rommel. For those who don't know, Erwin Rommel was a German general during WWII who headed the North African campaign. He was superficially a Nazi, but he personally disagreed with Hitler on many things and really didn't sympathize with Ayrian superiority. As a result, he was one of the few Nazi military leaders who actually followed many of the rules of war. He refused to send Jewish POWs to concentration camps, he ensured Allied military officers who were killed in combat received proper burial with honors, and he refused to kill civilians. He had a job to do but he tried to it with decency and humanity. Truth be told, I didn't have a huge role with Chris, I mostly was a support type of person, but I was still involved.

To a similar extent, I'm retiring from my activity with Chris. Truth be told, I follow Chris little even though I'm privy to certain information not otherwise available. Frankly, I'm not really interested in knowing every aspect which in reality is more or less the same for the past few years - he's lonely, he needs a girlfriend ASAP, the trolls have ruined his life, etc. Some of the recent stuff is amusing but I don't feel compelled to follow every single action he does. Again, in making these positive life changes, keeping tabs on an autistic manchild who's going to court for macing a game store employee doesn't really fit in.

I'll probably still hang out on the forum. I might chime in every now and then in a Chris related thread. Perhaps my ratings will reflect more the content of my posts and not people just agreeing with my posts by virtue I'm staff. I'll still be around boiling denim with @drtoboggan or studying the Rules of Acquisition with @CompyRex. Whenever someone mentions the great taste of Charleston Chew, I'll certainly be there. However, I plan to diminish my activity on the forum.

I wish to apologize to anyone I may have let down over the years, as I have let many people down. I am sorry but I have to move on.

That say, it has been an honor and a pleasure to serve you all as admin. I am glad you all (hopefully) enjoy the forum I started and get benefit from. I have confidence that the staff will keep this forum going for some time to go come. I realize that you may not agree with the way things might be done but I'm afraid it's out of my hands at this point and you gotta roll with the changes. At least it's not like I'm changing Sonic's arms to be blue.

Regards,
Champthom

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You have your reasons, but imo the whole sick-sad tale of CWC is still ongoing and taking in even deeper overtones. He's sure to continue making an ass of himself in ways that no one could anticipate before. That's why I'm sticking around until the eventual day where Chris ends up either being committed to a psych ward for good or his obit is run in the paper.

 

[Roger Rabbit]

See ya Champthom. May you get all the Charleston Chews.

 

[Zeorus]

I'm still a relative n00b, but I've admired your input and contribution to the discussions here, as well as your leadership as an admin. I hope to see you around and get to know you better, Champ.

 

[JP 307]

Hey champ whatever makes you happy makes me happy. Good luck with all that positive energy

 

[Seahorses]

People find new ways to break my heart.

Godspeed.

 

[For The Internet]

You've been awesome, I'm glad you're not leaving completely. Thanks for everything you've done!

 

[Holdek]

Stay safe Champ.

 

[LightningStrikes]

All the best to you, in your future endeavors!

 

[knux]

I'm super late in joining these forums but thank you for all your hard work. You've made something great.

 

[Cure Quanta]

I gotta pitch in, as a noob (and I will always regard myself as a noob, I've never been part of the original Chris stuff and in some part, I will always be something of an outside observer) the examples you've set for the comm you're leaving behind are...hell, all I can say is thank you.

 

[ShavedSheep]

He's off to the great Charleston Chew in the sky.

 

[Watcher]

Not to steal the limelight, but I too am retiring. Considering I rarely ever checked in on this site, it was kind of expected.

As well, this is probably my last post on here because after three years of dicking around on this website, life finally caught up. It used to be I had enough free time to check in on this place every day, sometimes for hours at a time. However, it's gotten to the point where I'm gone for weeks at a time, and when I come back, I wind up not even posting or using the chatbox. For a community I felt some closeness too, I've become retardedly distant from it. I haven't even been keeping track of Chris ever since the first "Chris is totally dead" post. I've lost interest in most of the minor cows posted and posting on here, and stuff like parkourdude91 never really got my attention that well (which turned out to be a hoax anyways, so yeah). I've wanted to leave this site before when I thought three fourths of the userbase was mentally challenged and good for a few kicks, but I've met like minded individuals here who share my passion for silently observing retards, so I stayed. We had good times, we laughed, we... laughed... god there was a lot of laughing... but the site got so disgustingly huge and brought an influx of a new generation of spergs. Again, some cool and decent, some... well, Connor. I have enough friends, family, and enemies to deal with offline, I can't deal with 3,000 more people in my life.

Either which way, I'm sure most of my friends here have all packed up and left a long time ago. So I'm not moderating, I don't have friends on here, I don't find amusement in the userbase anymore, and since I have all this work to deal with offline, I'm pretty much "Never Ever" (c) coming back. If there's one thing I really want to tell you guys, it's don't follow me. I'm becoming more and more selective with the company I keep and I think the people that deserve my companionship are already in contact with me. If I'm doing something like a Skype call with someone and they drag one of you guys in, whatever, but as of now, I'm resuming my position as "nobody" to the people on here. This all sounds a little negative, and honestly, most of the time this place leaves me with a bitter taste in my mouth, so yeah. Even for me, it doesn't feel like "a fond farewell to a beloved friend," it seems more like my leaving will be "thank god that dead space is finally filled up." I wasn't exactly a big deal here anyways.

So in short, so long, asswads. Farewell, asslords. Sayonara, assholes. Not sure how that quote goes. It was all kinda fun while it lasted.

I know I should feel good right now but I don't. I just feel bad now.

To add some context I always felt like there was some latent hostility between Hunter and I ever since I initially registered. He'd call me out regularly in chat and in Skype similar to how @Mauvman Shuffleboard does now. I recall back in very early 2014 Hunter admitted to me that he really didn't like me at all and I responded with "the feeling's mutual".

Then some time passed, I left the forum for a few months. Came back and noticed a lot of new people, and a lot of the old people weren't around so much. Hunter was one of those people. I honestly thought he added me to his ignore list like @Hyperion did. Now that Hunter is leaving for good I just feel bad now that I never got to properly reconcile with him, and apologize for the way I acted.

I guess I can't now. I do hope Hunter comes back some day since I felt he added a lot to the forum as the grumpy old furry moderator.

 

[Whatisgoingon]

I know I'm incredibly late, but if any of you guys are still reading this I just want to say: Thank you for helping make this community what it is today. Seriously, it is the only forum/message board that I like going on.

 

[Male]

I return just to let you all know that I did get in contact with The Hunter and asked him to come back babby because Cuddlebug misses him, this is what he had to say:
"lol fug no that place is lame and pretty gay now, id rather shit my pants than come back"
I agreed
Then we high fived through the internet.

 

[Watcher]

"lol fug no that place is lame and pretty gay now, id rather shit my pants than come back"
I agreed

Implying he didn't do it afterwards anyway