Post by Akeekitty on Aug 30, 2016 0:05:02 GMT -5
For those of you who have seen Mental's announcement (and more recently our former admin's) you already know what this post is going to entail. I am not too good at making sappy posts like this. For the past few days I have been delaying making this announcement just to figure out what I wanted to say and how to best convey my feelings for you guys. In the end its pretty damn hard to think of this stuff when my weekends can be VERY distracting. So screw it, I give up trying to do this right, instead I am gonna ramble on. I apologize in advance for what you are about to read.
Reality Shift has been a special place for me for years. I have been a member here for a long time. It wasn't my first roleplaying board but it has been the one site I have been a part of the longest. I have been a part of this place around its start and have been a part of the staff for almost as long as it has been running. What started out as a simple watch over the place for a bit and help approve bios turned eventually turned into running the whole place. It's been hectic trying to fill in Casey's (The original creator) shoes with virtually no experience on running a board on my own and only a basic understanding of how to manage proboards. But I tried my best. Dear god have I tried my best. With Guil and Mental's help I don't know if I would have stuck it out as long as I have.
We have always had our ups and downs with this place, but after some complications, and our biggest dry spell in history this place has been in its death throws for a LONG time. Though things looked like they were at their end I didn't give up. A part of me felt like RS still had a chance of coming out of it, and part of me felt like it was my fault that it died in the first place, I felt like my inability to do basic things on my own and other personal issues were what caused its downfall. I, Mental, and Guil fought our damn hardest to bring this place back up for a long time.
Through our efforts there have been some improvements but along the way we realized we can't do it anymore. For me I have lost all motivation to keep going. I hate saying this, but honestly after years of struggling to manage this place, for a very long time by myself trying to revive RS has stressed me out, made me depressed, and has killed my muse for long periods of time. Roleplaying eventually turned into a chore and not something fun. I jumped into threads not just because I wanted to play with someone, but I did so because if I didn't there would be no activity at all. No activity meant less guests would take an interest in this place, and that meant no new members to help bring this place back up to what it once was. When I couldn't give out responses I would start stressing myself out more. Its taken me finally finding a new place where I have no responsibilities to realize what I was doing wrong. After careful consideration and talking things out with Mental we both decided that it would be better for us if we stepped down from RS.
What does this mean for Reality Shift? Really all it means is now there is no one doing staff/admin duties. The board itself will remain open. You guys are free to talk here and post. Or whatever else you feel like. I am still willing to post here since I do have some on going plots that I can't do anywhere else, at least now I don't feel the pressure of I must keep things going. There are still some things we need to decide on, like if we will leave this place open enough for people to still make new accounts if others are still going to roleplay on here. The only thing that will change with that is you won't need to wait for approval, since you know, no one is gonna approve it anyway. What you guys want to do about with this information is totally up to you. I will still lurk around cause that is what I do but being a mod? Fuck it. I am done with that. I doubt I could ever bring myself to be a part of any RP staff again.
Again I apologize for the rambling I did here, and the hurt feelings this post is bound to bring but I just can't do it anymore.
P.S. There will likely be a final announcement on what we are doing/not doing sometime soon.
Reality Shift has been a special place for me for years. I have been a member here for a long time. It wasn't my first roleplaying board but it has been the one site I have been a part of the longest. I have been a part of this place around its start and have been a part of the staff for almost as long as it has been running. What started out as a simple watch over the place for a bit and help approve bios turned eventually turned into running the whole place. It's been hectic trying to fill in Casey's (The original creator) shoes with virtually no experience on running a board on my own and only a basic understanding of how to manage proboards. But I tried my best. Dear god have I tried my best. With Guil and Mental's help I don't know if I would have stuck it out as long as I have.
We have always had our ups and downs with this place, but after some complications, and our biggest dry spell in history this place has been in its death throws for a LONG time. Though things looked like they were at their end I didn't give up. A part of me felt like RS still had a chance of coming out of it, and part of me felt like it was my fault that it died in the first place, I felt like my inability to do basic things on my own and other personal issues were what caused its downfall. I, Mental, and Guil fought our damn hardest to bring this place back up for a long time.
Through our efforts there have been some improvements but along the way we realized we can't do it anymore. For me I have lost all motivation to keep going. I hate saying this, but honestly after years of struggling to manage this place, for a very long time by myself trying to revive RS has stressed me out, made me depressed, and has killed my muse for long periods of time. Roleplaying eventually turned into a chore and not something fun. I jumped into threads not just because I wanted to play with someone, but I did so because if I didn't there would be no activity at all. No activity meant less guests would take an interest in this place, and that meant no new members to help bring this place back up to what it once was. When I couldn't give out responses I would start stressing myself out more. Its taken me finally finding a new place where I have no responsibilities to realize what I was doing wrong. After careful consideration and talking things out with Mental we both decided that it would be better for us if we stepped down from RS.
What does this mean for Reality Shift? Really all it means is now there is no one doing staff/admin duties. The board itself will remain open. You guys are free to talk here and post. Or whatever else you feel like. I am still willing to post here since I do have some on going plots that I can't do anywhere else, at least now I don't feel the pressure of I must keep things going. There are still some things we need to decide on, like if we will leave this place open enough for people to still make new accounts if others are still going to roleplay on here. The only thing that will change with that is you won't need to wait for approval, since you know, no one is gonna approve it anyway. What you guys want to do about with this information is totally up to you. I will still lurk around cause that is what I do but being a mod? Fuck it. I am done with that. I doubt I could ever bring myself to be a part of any RP staff again.
Again I apologize for the rambling I did here, and the hurt feelings this post is bound to bring but I just can't do it anymore.
P.S. There will likely be a final announcement on what we are doing/not doing sometime soon.
