I was gloating in the staff forum not too long ago. It went something like this
Ladies, gentlemen, your neighbourhood Squirrel has officially reached 10000. "What does that mean?", you might ask. Well, for the best part of its life, MFGG's content management system has been keeping track of site staff activity. Every time a staff member decides to accept or decline a submission, they get a "point". I have ten thousand of these points. In essence, this means about a third of all main site submissions have been checked through by me. Various glitches along the way mean that it's very much an under-estimate but nevertheless it's a milestone nobody in the history of MFGG has ever reached, nor are they ever likely to conquer.
To put this into pespective, this took the best part of five and a half years to obtain, and I've always been a bit intense when it comes to doing mundane tasks. In second place lies MegaTailzChao with an otherwise impressive 2591. Don't let that gap fool you - if you're breaking the 2000 (or even 1000) barrier you're working very hard. Remember of course that the main site queue averages about four or five submissions a day, and half a dozen people are checking through it.
But though I wasted the best part of an hour making that image above, 10000 is not a healthy score, and really it's not something to celebrate. So I have no plans to take it any higher. My work is done, and I'm retiring from adminhood, site staff... hood and any other hoods I belong to that normal MFGG users don't. I'm going back to "green"... except I was never "green", because I joined the staff before I'd invented the concept of "green".
The fact that I've been sitting under a red banner for the last year or more and haven't lifted a finger is an entirely different story, but futher proof that perhaps I should step down from the role. It's been fun, but after so many years the motivation simply isn't there. I'm not fifteen year old without a meaningful social life anymore... I'm a... twenty-one year old without a meaningful social life. Hurray.
I'm also stepping down for a slightly more obvious reason - I couldn't give a damn about Nintendo these days. I have no interest in the 3DS, even less in the Wii U, and its strategy of re-releasing the same tired old games is something I can't really agree with. And of course, this is mirrored in the fangaming world - it all looks the same to me these days. You'll still be able to find me, but I can't imagine I'll be extremely active. Everything's said that needs to be said.
If you have an uncontrollable desire to be a Squirrel groupie, you can find me on my blog pretending I know something about video games, or at Sega Retro making stubs about Japanese tat for the Sega Saturn. I also walk around in pink at Sonic Retro and might be responsible for the look of NCFC 2012. But no promises. 2012 is a busy year for me.
so, ttfn people, thanks to those who need thanking, good luck in the future and all that jazz
- Squirrel
I was gloating in the staff forum not too long ago. It went something like this
[img]http://img851.imageshack.us/img851/9307/10000o.png[/img]
Ladies, gentlemen, your neighbourhood Squirrel has officially reached 10000. "What does that mean?", you might ask. Well, for the best part of its life, MFGG's content management system has been keeping track of site staff activity. Every time a staff member decides to accept or decline a submission, they get a "point". I have ten thousand of these points. In essence, this means about a third of all main site submissions have been checked through by me. Various glitches along the way mean that it's very much an under-estimate but nevertheless it's a milestone nobody in the history of MFGG has ever reached, nor are they ever likely to conquer.
To put this into pespective, this took the best part of five and a half years to obtain, and I've always been a bit intense when it comes to doing mundane tasks. In second place lies MegaTailzChao with an otherwise impressive 2591. Don't let that gap fool you - if you're breaking the 2000 (or even 1000) barrier you're working very hard. Remember of course that the main site queue averages about four or five submissions a day, and half a dozen people are checking through it.
But though I wasted the best part of an hour making that image above, 10000 is not a healthy score, and really it's not something to celebrate. So I have no plans to take it any higher. My work is done, and I'm retiring from adminhood, site staff... hood and any other hoods I belong to that normal MFGG users don't. I'm going back to "green"... except I was never "green", because I joined the staff before I'd invented the concept of "green".
The fact that I've been sitting under a red banner for the last year or more and haven't lifted a finger is an entirely different story, but futher proof that perhaps I should step down from the role. It's been fun, but after so many years the motivation simply isn't there. I'm not fifteen year old without a meaningful social life anymore... I'm a... twenty-one year old without a meaningful social life. Hurray.
I'm also stepping down for a slightly more obvious reason - I couldn't give a damn about Nintendo these days. I have no interest in the 3DS, even less in the Wii U, and its strategy of re-releasing the same tired old games is something I can't really agree with. And of course, this is mirrored in the fangaming world - it all looks the same to me these days. You'll still be able to find me, but I can't imagine I'll be extremely active. Everything's said that needs to be said.
If you have an uncontrollable desire to be a Squirrel groupie, you can find me on my blog pretending I know something about video games, or at Sega Retro making stubs about Japanese tat for the Sega Saturn. I also walk around in pink at Sonic Retro and might be responsible for the look of NCFC 2012. But no promises. 2012 is a busy year for me.
[img]http://img836.imageshack.us/img836/9396/keenest.png[/img]
so, ttfn people, thanks to those who need thanking, good luck in the future and all that jazz
- Squirrel