UserWiki:Killjax

Killjax "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 About Me Hisstory 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 on 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. ... 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 data base 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 I guess. 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. At this point you were a "full" Halopedian who did nothing more but talk smack about each and pissed off the operators. to be continued...