Misplaced Pages

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For those of you that have been checking out my RFA, you already know that it was a fucking disgrace. For those of you who haven't, now you know. Trust me, I've been taking so much shit from editors who have a beef with my edits that I created a subpage for it, but this is a new low.

It started innocently enough is 2005, when I registered the account (hey, better to correct stupid typos under "21655" than 68.62 blah blah blah). The username was an obvious choice for those who knew me on RuneScape under the same name. For those who didn't, it's a long story involving typing "216" for no reason at all into the "Preferred Username" box, finding it was taken, and picking the shortest one RuneScape came up with.

Nothing much happened between then and last year—I can blame total lack of awareness of the WP space for that.

Then, I discovered the marvel that was Adopt-A-User. Being the ID:10T n00b that I was, I stuck the "LOOKING FOR ADOPTION" userbox on my userpage in a hearbeat. Waited, waited, waited. Eventually, I just contacted one of the adopters myself to see if they would adopt me, and she did. Yay, I finally had a Wikimentor.

To fast-forward somewhat, I have no clue what it is that happened in 2007 that finally spurred me to edit more. WP:AFD, perhaps? That slow-ass app I used to use, Lupin AVT? Probably both. By my contributions steadily became more useful.

The Golden Age of 21655's Editing came in late February of 2008, when I got my hands on Huggle 0.6.3. Or something like that. Firing it up, I started whacking/reporting vandalism like never before. My edit count skyrocketed. And now, it rests at about 4000.

(For those of you about to warn me about editcountitis, shut the fuck up and keep reading. I'm fully aware of that and I don't think I care anymore, now that I'm leaving.)

On 2008-03-14, my mood took a serious downturn. My edit summaries became more aggressive, my warns more erroneous, and my talk page messages...well, you get my drift. My Wikimood fell to negative 7, the Wikistress went to level 3, and the stress scale I designed myself that no one except me and a user who is also retired uses went to level 4 (Dangerous).

Why that happened is for me not to tell you—it's a non-Wiki thing (paging Keeper07) that happened and I don't need you asking me what happened.

And now we return to the fucking disgrace (to resurrect a previous term) that was my RFA. On 2008-03-17, after I awarded him a RickK star, Glacier Wolf asked me if I would be interested in him nomming me for adminship.

Now this is the moment I've been waiting for all my life. It proved that at least someone has seen my work (and appreciated it) and knew I could handle the tools and Wikidrama. So I accepted.

What no one told me was that RfAs are a cast-iron bitch—and I was going to experience that first-hand, unfortunately.

It stared off well enough, with the first users starting the Support section. Then the Opposes came. And you know what? They almost EXCLUSIVELY focused on the stress bout I had three days earlier which, if you paid attention, happened for non-Wiki reasons. In hindsight, I probably shouldn't have got on Huggle that day, but whacking vandals is the only vent I have for my pent-up real-life stress.

Finally, I couldn't fucking take it anymore. I withdrew my nom and announced I would go on Wikibreak for a while, as per the ID-10T's who were pestering me on my talk page to do so. Which is funny, becuase I was already planning that!

Just my luck, I was pulled off the computer before I could template my user page. It just gave me that much more time to decide on what I should do.

End result:

• My non-CV edits are seldom appreciated around here.
• Who needs MY help with vandals, for that matter? When there're editors like DerHexer burning through reverts faster than the fucking ClueBot, extra help from me is really superfluous.
• Those sugar-coated statements of "Although I appreciate your efforts" that editors constantly use when warning me of something stupid I did are mere attempts to stay within WP:CIVIL.
• The last thing Misplaced Pages needs is another short-tempered editor like me, and everyone who opposed my RfA knows that damn well.

So this is where I leave you and the encyclopedia. I'll leave my subpages alone in case I might need them again, but for the most part you won't ever again hear from me or the temper you so fear will prevent Misplaced Pages from getting anywhere.

I'm leaving. Good bye. Two One Six Five Five _ʃ

PS: Don't you dare bring up WP:NBD. If it wasn't REALLY that big of a deal, you'd've installed a script that gave all registered users sysop powers automatically a long time ago.

There's still a chance

You still have a chance to prove me wrong. Here.

For those of you who'd rather I hurry up and get the fuck out of here already, post here.

IP votes don't count.