UserWiki:Killjax

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'''"If there's "friendly fire", it means you suck and got in the way."

- -Motto '''

Former Senior Editor of Halopedia News 

Veteran and Semi-Distinguished User 

Communications • Achievements • Debriefs and Logs

Past Wikis
Xenopedia • Wookieepedia • Call of Duty Wiki

Current
Halo Fanon • Dead Space


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Do forgive me if this short little trip down memory lane puts you to sleep or forces you to hit the "back button" on your browser. I should also tell you that I'm writing this at 11:22 pm PST just after guzzling down a can of Pepsi and watching a digital "cat fight" ensue over facebook. That said, I have little concern over my grammar usage and other language arts crap I surprisingly remember during my elementary school days. That said... where to start... AH HA.

That was for drama, I actually have no clue where to start.

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I suppose I could start on the date I joined. I believe I joined Halopedia back at September of 2007 just a couple weeks after Halo 3 was released. However many have said I joined 4 or more months later on. I truly don't know, its all a blur to me now. I do remember when the site was "ancient" (appropriate word for this site's day and age) and how you needed old fashion talk pages to communicate with one another and had to use the forums to get word around. For me, that did not last long as Halopedia was given a massive over-haul. Many of its "upgrades" were more focused at a more social aspect for its ever flourishing user membership at the time. However, out of all the plethora of new gadgets one profound upgrade (I prefer flaw) really... how do I put this rationally... screwed me over. It is the infamous "Point System" as everyone has come to call it.

When you join something you need a motivation, right? When I joined I had a decent goal ahead of me, to improve this site. In a nut-shell Halopedia's point system is a visual representation meant to display your editing history and activity, but not your performance. With this, many saw the difficulty in distinguishing between quality edits and "point whoring". In which you edited articles purely for the points and rank. This has digitally back-stabbed me on more than one occasion. As such many perceived me as a liability for the first few weeks. Long story short... I had to climb the "ladder of fame/popularity" (as I like to call it) for a couple of years only to literally claw my way through the most basic rights of any responsible user could obtain (i.e. Rollback, Operator status, and the then-active leadership positions of the Usergroups). I eventually failed a request for Adminiship, twice, because of it. Oh yes, I've broken the record and perhaps the only user to do so.

Moving on, I went from an article hopping/vandalism-hunting sub-user to a full on IRC junkie. The Internet Relay Chat (IRC) was the core of Halopedia and its users, so at this point you were a "full" Halopedian who did nothing more but talked smack about each other and pissed off the operators. Even that didn't last long. Overtime I really started thinking about my reasons why I was truly here, why I didn't already leave, and how I was able to keep up with the everyday bullcrap that would arise. I truly had no reason, but my goals were simple - to edit and to improve. I decided to observe peoples behavior here on this site, specifically those on the IRC, and to see their reasons of being here. I was not surprised. In numerable statistics, I'd say about 60% of users who signed on the IRC on a daily basis were merely the ones who wanted to make the position of Adminiship. Kids, really, who put nothing more than a fake virtual smile and does the common work around the area. Its sad, to say the least.

Your probably thinking that I really dislike the site and its members. Not at all, this site is great and those who really care have kept it in working order... to some extent that is.

Well, when Halopedia moved from the wikia database late last year, thats when I really stopped coming on. The newer generation of Halopedia's users were coming along steadily and Halo: Reach, Bungie's last Halo game, was released. According to some "Veteran" users and I myself, we were obsolete and our tasks were no longer needed. Many of my generation left while only a very few stayed behind.

Its about 1 o'clock now, so I'm going to wrap this up quickly. When I look back at my accomplishments and many other things, I finally see that I really wasted my time here and how a total nerd I was, but it brings back... great memories. Halopedia has stuck with me through High School, from Freshman to Senior. I had a.. rough run, but it smoothed itself out.