Thread:Addfire/@comment-36558623-20181016160958/@comment-36558623-20181016175243

course I'm gonna do this in the role-review format

Addfire wrote: Hey!

Wow, after you were gone, I didn't expect you to come back so soon.

I don't know how long my speech will be in return, I doubt I can match the impressive wordcount you tallied. But to start, thank you so much for your kind words! It's really warming to see that I made such a big impact on someone, honestly. I can't believe that my strange little word reviews and overuse of the exclamation point would have such an effect...

I love writing, so of course my paragraph turned into an essay within minutes -.-

but the stuff you say isn't just exclaimation marks and compliments, it's clearly well-thoughtout encouragement and kindess that is geniune and true.

And you're right. Everyone is gone. Or, not really, but most people definitely aren't here. Starru (or EclipsaButterfly, or SnowySilver, or whatever) hasn't been in sight for months. Rex is incommunicado. I have no clue where Unreal went. As for the others, well, we still keep a watchful eye on the wiki, but from a distance, on Discord.

'''so just like.... any discord? bets discord? do you know who bet is?!'''

'''yeah... it's really sad seeing that almost no one is here. who's left? (aside from staff but TOTM winners count)'''

But why would I leave?

Well, I don't... really know? I suppose I'll try to give a lot of examples of things that might have contributed, and let you look back and decide for yourself.

The biggest one is the looming possibility of the End of Forums. It gave this sense of impermanence, like I'd be obsolete soon, you know? I'm a Forums mod, I did almost all my reviews from the Forums. Discussions feel alien to me. So that's a big one.

That's a good point, but I don't think the End of Forums are coming, and I'm sure everyone would value your opinion in a Discussion.

The game's changing. With the Coven update, which I couldn't get because it cost money, there was suddenly a whole new dimension to the game that I couldn't really deal with! I honestly had no ability to cast effective judgement on coven-specific roles.

'''I agree, I don't have coven either. It's not too much of an issue though, just stay away from reviewing coven roles and pick up the general consensus of the roles, and you're fine.'''

Another one was, well, I'd see a new role and try to review it, but see that someone else already had. I felt like I wasn't needed here. Y'all've been making some great role reviews, so I felt like my reviews weren't needed. Almost every other mod has a 'thing'– Zed does his mainspace, etc. Mine isn't needed. So why should I stick around?

i feel that roles are commonly very deep these days, multiple reviews are good to see different opinions.

and I'm having no trouble slashing more then 25 roles a week ;P

But honestly, you're right. I should keep at it. I don't really have an excuse for leaving, I just got overwhelmed and cut my losses.

'''Great! But if you've lost interest, don't feel obligated to continue, really, it's ok, I just wanted to see if you were still active.'''

So thanks for messaging me, I'll at least try to get back into it, stretch my wings, and see if I can still fly.

'''Of course! It's nothing compared to all the encouragement you've given me over the past few years'''

I mean seriously remember the Assasin RP and The Actoe >_> thanks for coming back!

hope we can see eachother more and more.