Me? Well, I'd just give you a link to the topic, which is still around, but it's 26 pages long....
Well, let's see... I'd been an author here for a couple years and owned a forum account, but hadn't really been active. In fact, I hadn't bothered going to the forum at all. Chibi Renamon was the admin, and it was months between updates due to his schedule.
Once, he updated talking about how the DaD had been down. My first reaction was, "The DaD was down?" I hadn't really gone there much after I'd read everything and seen all the art and there was nothing new yet. I think it was a link that led me to the topic, but I read about how Chibi was having troubles and was resigning as administrator, and was looking for someone to take his place. I thought, "I don't want this place to go!" And offered to become the updater, but you see, nobody really knew me. lol In fact, at first I felt like they'd ignored me. My reaction to that was, "Very well, as long as the site doesn't go, I won't die from not being the updater." However, the only thing that was happening at the time was that people were discussing possibilities of things to do rather than actually DOING something. At the time, we were running, as Chibi put it, on "the good vibes of the host" (who, by the way, is AWESOME), and we didn't know how much time the site still had. I did my best to keep everyone focused and organized, and despite the occasional flame to Togashi and everyone's will to become unfocused, things started to work.
Originally, everyone wanted the people who had been around the longest and that everyone knew to lead us, but personally, I didn't think that was right. I voiced that opinion (or rather, typed it) and after a short debate, it was decided that we could have "newbs" on the staff as well.
Rather than having one person take on the responsibility of the whole site, we came up with a GROUP of people to do things here. I learned that the updater and admin positions were ones that went hand-in-hand, and so I volunteered for that as well.
It seemed that people liked the way I did things. I began getting a lot support from the people who were participating in the forum. No parades or anything, just super-nice comments like "thanks for actually trying to save this place" and "you should win, good work". I made a list of the volunteers and sent it to ChibiRenamon, who basically said it was up to us to decide. I organized a voting system, and here's where I messed up.
It had been hard and taken a long time to get the list of people we had to take care of the site. I did NOT want to wait longer, because, as I mentioned, we did not have the time to waste. We had an unknown deadline. So, instead of asking for someone to hold the votes, I just told everyone to PM me with their votes. That way, votes could be anonymous. Nobody would know who voted for who. It seemed cool with everyone, but a certain someone *coughZephyrcough* started putting me down, big time. It's hard to get me annoyed, but she did, and I let her know (which I felt bad about and apologized for). She only had the best for the site in mind, however, so I can't really point at her. I tried to prove I wasn't cheating by asking everyone there if someone wanted to take over the votes. Votes could be proven simply by asking the voters what was what.
Voting was SLOW. After like a week there were only ten votes. Despite that and my mistake, I won the vote for administrator here. Nobody ran against Senjuro for treasurer, and so far he's been awesome. Boss Reo wanted to be board admin, and I was taking care of things on the board during the time he wasn't here, but I haven't seen him lately. I hope I haven't been overshadowing him or anything.
Anyway, you wanted to know where I came from. The only other answer I have for that is Huntsville, Alabama, and I only lived there until I was 2 years old! After that, it was Miami, FL, then Fort Myers, FL, and now Orlando, FL.
Why not... I'll give you the link to the topic anyway in case I left something out. Here it is: http://digiartistsdomain.org/phpboard/vi...php?t=4175
That's it! Togashi, if you read it, please realize that people were upset at you at that time. Things have mellowed out quite a bit since then.
Well, let's see... I'd been an author here for a couple years and owned a forum account, but hadn't really been active. In fact, I hadn't bothered going to the forum at all. Chibi Renamon was the admin, and it was months between updates due to his schedule.
Once, he updated talking about how the DaD had been down. My first reaction was, "The DaD was down?" I hadn't really gone there much after I'd read everything and seen all the art and there was nothing new yet. I think it was a link that led me to the topic, but I read about how Chibi was having troubles and was resigning as administrator, and was looking for someone to take his place. I thought, "I don't want this place to go!" And offered to become the updater, but you see, nobody really knew me. lol In fact, at first I felt like they'd ignored me. My reaction to that was, "Very well, as long as the site doesn't go, I won't die from not being the updater." However, the only thing that was happening at the time was that people were discussing possibilities of things to do rather than actually DOING something. At the time, we were running, as Chibi put it, on "the good vibes of the host" (who, by the way, is AWESOME), and we didn't know how much time the site still had. I did my best to keep everyone focused and organized, and despite the occasional flame to Togashi and everyone's will to become unfocused, things started to work.
Originally, everyone wanted the people who had been around the longest and that everyone knew to lead us, but personally, I didn't think that was right. I voiced that opinion (or rather, typed it) and after a short debate, it was decided that we could have "newbs" on the staff as well.
Rather than having one person take on the responsibility of the whole site, we came up with a GROUP of people to do things here. I learned that the updater and admin positions were ones that went hand-in-hand, and so I volunteered for that as well.
It seemed that people liked the way I did things. I began getting a lot support from the people who were participating in the forum. No parades or anything, just super-nice comments like "thanks for actually trying to save this place" and "you should win, good work". I made a list of the volunteers and sent it to ChibiRenamon, who basically said it was up to us to decide. I organized a voting system, and here's where I messed up.
It had been hard and taken a long time to get the list of people we had to take care of the site. I did NOT want to wait longer, because, as I mentioned, we did not have the time to waste. We had an unknown deadline. So, instead of asking for someone to hold the votes, I just told everyone to PM me with their votes. That way, votes could be anonymous. Nobody would know who voted for who. It seemed cool with everyone, but a certain someone *coughZephyrcough* started putting me down, big time. It's hard to get me annoyed, but she did, and I let her know (which I felt bad about and apologized for). She only had the best for the site in mind, however, so I can't really point at her. I tried to prove I wasn't cheating by asking everyone there if someone wanted to take over the votes. Votes could be proven simply by asking the voters what was what.
Voting was SLOW. After like a week there were only ten votes. Despite that and my mistake, I won the vote for administrator here. Nobody ran against Senjuro for treasurer, and so far he's been awesome. Boss Reo wanted to be board admin, and I was taking care of things on the board during the time he wasn't here, but I haven't seen him lately. I hope I haven't been overshadowing him or anything.
Anyway, you wanted to know where I came from. The only other answer I have for that is Huntsville, Alabama, and I only lived there until I was 2 years old! After that, it was Miami, FL, then Fort Myers, FL, and now Orlando, FL.
Why not... I'll give you the link to the topic anyway in case I left something out. Here it is: http://digiartistsdomain.org/phpboard/vi...php?t=4175
That's it! Togashi, if you read it, please realize that people were upset at you at that time. Things have mellowed out quite a bit since then.