“It is a curious thing, Harry, but perhaps those who are best suited to
power are those who have never sought it. Those who, like you, have
leadership thrust upon them, and take up the mantle because they must,
and find to their own surprise that they wear it well.”
J.K. Rowling, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
Thanks @Wendell. This whole situation is very disappointing to me and I feel like you have been the only voice of reason and source of transparency throughout this process. I hope you do end up with "custody" of the community, forums, and domain, because I think you're the only one who cares enough about us to be clear and concise about this. I can't imagine how this all must make you feel, but I'm glad that you're willing to keep the community up-to-date on the current situation without evading questions or coming up with half-assed non-answers like some other involved parties.
P.S. Lol, what happened to my account, @ColtonDRG? I just logged in and now I'm someone else?
I know you from reddit.
@wendell We go where you go. Just glad we have the forum back up. But I'm am thinking of just creating a tiny discourse site just to use encase anything like this happens again.
This is from a while back some users were affected with this, your account needs merged. @Wendell could you fix when you get a min.
@ColtonDRG1 if its not fixed in a couple of days (might get missed) post a post in the bugs section.
Wendell you are the voice of reason in a sea of convoluted madness. Thank you.
Keep an eye out for a post from me about discord if you like as a place to congregate for chat for the community.
A friend of mine shared this with me not too long ago, it seems fitting.
"Just as beauty is in the eye of the beholder, leadership is in the
eyes of the lead. It does not matter one bit what kind of leader you
think you are. You are the type of leader other people experience you to
be. Period. That is the type of leader you are. You can believe that
people misunderstand you, that's fine, but you are the leader other
people experience you to be. And until you get to a point where you can
sit in front of a group of people and say what they think you're
weaknesses are, what your behavioral deficiencies are, what your values
are... when you can say out loud what they are thinking, what they say
to their friend when they're having a beer with them, about you, in the
same words that they use — until you get to that point where you can
talk about it with that kind of knowledge, openness and personal
comfort, then you're not ready to be a full leader." - Kent Thiry, CEO of DaVita
Sooooo I just got some random new badges, almost as if I'm a new user...
'First Like'
'Member'
I was a channel lurker for a while and made an account back in 2014... started posting more and more over the years.
Is this some side effect of the whole site changing hands mumbo jumbo?
I really hope you do. @wendell, if you do maintain ownership, any chance of Qain coming back?
I see, thank you. Yeah, it's been a while since I have used these forums. I've been busy with other things, and I have wanted to keep my mouth shut on this matter until I read this post.
Ah nice that will be handy, meant the discource forum rather than discord (what Tek syndicate uses for it forums). But hell thats good enough just somewhere as a backup that isn't held by certain people would be great.
This looks to be a side effect from an update Wendell just made to the forums that he did while he was fixing the things that got broken today. Everyone got badges.
I'm with you Wendell! =)
Thanks for the update @wendell. I feel like we're a community in purgatory now but the information flow helps.
Thanks for the update on the matter.
@Grokas
Same here...Got an 'Anniversary' badge and some others. Kind of ironic due to the latest events.
HA YOU'RE STUCK WITH US BUDDY. Theres no escape, you have been assimilated.
Yes, I now have my pretty badges I was starting to feel left out. ;_;
Yeah I got a shit storm of badges out of no where >.>
I just got nine of those rubbed in the face....
I couldn't care less but hey, BADGES FOR EVERYONE, YEEEYYY! ... or whatever :P
I am very glad to read that. And I believe the majority of active users here are with you.
I certainly am. Keep it up! :)