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[Athenian]

Like the man said, the no's are more important than the yes's. I know it's a big responsibility so I'm hoping I don't mess things up.

I should probably explain a few things -

My general level of activity - I honestly don't see how people came up with the idea that I'm not active, considering how many characters I have and the other role-play stuff I do. I do like to spend a lot of time in game role-playing because, to be honest, it is the human-interaction side of Discovery that has kept me playing. I don't write long stories in the forums - what you see is normally a summary - but it's a summary of long hours of ingame roleplaying boiled down to a few paragraphs. Plus I play a few characters people know nothing of and never will, because I think the magic kind of vanishes when people know who's behind the mask so to speak. Not everyone can write and read with the same high standards of proficiency as many people here. The in-game experience is what this game is about surely.

I've tried recently to pass on responsibility for the various branches of the BHG faction - which is a big, big faction - and I'll be dropping a lot of my characters to free up time. I will miss them. I really only ever dropped activity at the start of the year for personal reasons (you'll see the odd reference to my father's death in one of my character's stories from around that time) and when college got hectic before the summer, but just because I don't post doesn't mean I don't stay up to date with the forum side of things. I read the forum as far as is possible. Often I simply don't think any moderation is necessary considering people can occasionally feel that debate is being stifled.

Generally I think things flow better when people do get to hammer things out - that's kind of the purpose of discussion as I see it - people mightn't always agree on things but you can't legislate for that. Once the rules establish a level-playing field then people can get on with the game.

My insulting RP posts - I agree I can be a horrible person in character sometimes and I know I created a monster when I made one particular character who frequented the forums in discussions that I thought mattered (he will be retiring soon, sad to say). As a player I do have opinions on things here that I think are as valid as anyone else's. Sometimes it is my way to make a point about role-playing's place in the game, because I think anything that does happen in-game should be dealt with in role-play, unless it's clearly against the rules or where the possibility of even-handedness is denied someone for no good reason.

For those of you that did vote no, thanks for the honesty. Hope things go smoothly. Cheers.

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Former member of "the most paranoid group of people in the community"
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