Rip u/d3rr

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[–]magnora7 11 insightful - 8 fun11 insightful - 7 fun12 insightful - 8 fun -  (5 children)

Okay...

So apparently, judging by what I'm seeing, he has just walked away from saidit entirely. Because day before yesterday /u/AXXA changed the rules, and I changed them back, and d3rr had some sort of meltdown about being admin (which was entirely unrelated to the rule change issue) and just left I guess... pretty rash but I understand. He did content admin work for the last 6 months and it was wearing on him, but I had done it for the 2.5 years prior. I thought d3rr was doing a good job moderating the content on saidit, even better than me, honestly.

He was wanting to clarify the rules, so we were building a rule clarification page. This was yesterday.

I talked about opening a new site with higher quality rules, I talked about finding new admins.

I guess he realized he could just walk away, so he did. Funny he did it right after I revealed the reason I had to take a break 6 months ago, which was the admin duties being overwhelming.

Not a great move by d3rr here. Especially deleting the account seems counterproductive. I wish he had used his words and we could've developed a solution instead of making a sudden exit, but that's his choice I guess.

I enjoyed working with him and we've done some great things, and I thought our conversations about the rule clarifications were going in a good way, and now this. But there's always been a bit of tension between us, especially the last couple years, and I'm not sure why, and I try hard to overcome that and but it can be difficult.

So I guess I'm back to running this show again. I still don't know why he deleted his account other than to make some sort of "statement" about how done he is with it. But apparently not only admining it, but also participating at all. I hope he comes back some day. But if he doesn't I guess that's okay too, luckily everything is registered by me, so this won't affect the website being up.

Sucks. I guess I'm running this site again now. D3rr if you see this, I understand and forgive you, it's not a big deal, I don't know why we couldn't work together on this when saidit is currently growing. It hurts, but if it needed to happen then it needed to happen. I walked away too so I can't blame him too much. But I didn't delete my damn account...

His main thing is he was just tired of doing the admin duties 85% by himself (which is what I did for 2.5 years so I totally understand) but we were working toward a solution of rule clarification to help other admins be trained properly to take some workload off of him. But I guess he just decided he was sick of it, and he's done. Deleting the account was an overraction though, but whatever. Saidit will live on.

/u/AXXA do you have any insight on this event?

[–]AXXA 12 insightful - 6 fun12 insightful - 5 fun13 insightful - 6 fun -  (4 children)

I will let d3rr speak for himself but maybe saying you forgive him is not a very good approach.

I didn't change any rules. You were tagged from the very beginning of a discussion to clarify not change the rules to make them easier for everybody to understand. I have retired as admin due to you being demanding to me and not valuing my input.

[–]magnora7 8 insightful - 6 fun8 insightful - 5 fun9 insightful - 6 fun -  (3 children)

To be fair, you tagged me in a discussion about it and within 24 hours made the change, and worded it differently than what you and d3rr agreed on, and I veto'd it, which I think is within my right. I said we can make a "rule clarification page" to help clarify the rules, and you said you'd be willing to work with me and d3rr to do that. And now you step down?

Thanks for the help the last 6 months, but I honestly don't understand why you are leaving. Sorry for the problems, I wish we were able to work together.

[–]JasonCarswell 4 insightful - 2 fun4 insightful - 1 fun5 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

To be fair, you tagged me in a discussion about it and within 24 hours made the change,

I completely agree that he was too hasty in making that post without hearing back from you. I was surprised by it but I also understand that one of my comments could have been seen as encouraging him to do so.

and worded it differently than what you and d3rr agreed on,

They invited me to add it to the FAQ and reword it to be shorter, as clear as possible, and to avoid encouraging name-calling. They could have easily done it themselves. On the FAQ we could also see it and each improve it as we liked until a consensus was reached - then hope you liked it. The announcement seemed premature.

_we can make a "rule clarification page" to help clarify the rules,

Retarded. Why not just clarify the rules?

And now you step down?

I don't like it, don't endorse it, but I understand why AXXA is also bailing. Maybe you'll take notice and do some self-examination.

Sorry for the problems, I wish we were able to work together.

This is on YOU. Open it up. FOTPACH. Bottom up. /s/SaidItCommunity

[–]iamonlyoneman 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

Seems like an ideal time to write rules the way it seems best to you and then open up for new admins to enforce the rules you want enforced on your own site. But what do I know.

[–]magnora7 3 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 0 fun4 insightful - 1 fun -  (0 children)

Great minds think alike. Check out this thread: https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/8w8i/anyone_want_to_help_be_content_admin_for_saidit/

And this thread: https://saidit.net/s/SaidIt/comments/8wao/saidit_content_admin_rules_clarification_page/