Oh wow! Thanks Curt for this post and that recommendation you gave elsewhere.
Although it's not really new anymore as they made me a moderator back in July! A few have noticed and messaged me over the months since but I never announced it publicly as I didn't want to make a big a deal out of it, so I guess even after all this time you're still technically the first person to publicly welcome me funnily enough haha so thank you very much for your kind words!
I should say that I didn't expect to be handed the keys to the Civ2 forums and that was a complete surprise to me. As well as the preservation work I did here I've also been helping out the Civ3, Civ4 and Civ4Col communities with lost file rescues and fixing hosting issues with constantly had me bothering staff about fixing broken links and stuff so Thunderfall floated the idea of making me a mod for just the downloads area last year and then The_J made it a reality in July. He then pointed out that Civ1 and Civ2 had no mod and asked if I was willing to help there too and I figured why not as I already admin/mod a whole bunch of other communities so it's certainly nothing new to me lol!
However funnily enough that wasn't the last surprise coming as my job here has changed quite a bit again after it became apparent that CFC needed help on running their social media pages. The official CFC FB was inactive, the CFC reddit was controlled by fans & was dead, the CFC Discord was also controlled by fans and was dead too, and only the CFC Twitter was all good thanks to The_J running it. So yes if any of you have noticed lots of CFC Civ news posts on FB & Reddit over the last few months (copied from The_J's posts on the homepage), that's been me lol! Haven't quite got a CFC Discord running yet though as there's some logistical troubles I won't bore people with.
At some point I plan to make some nice new pinned 'welcome and information' threads in Civ1 & 2 to help people find the latest editors, scenarios, and guides etc and will likely need community help on that to make sure nothing good is missed however for the moment my focus is still on finishing my Civ2 scenario projects and videos as it's been years now (due to me doing all the preservation work instead) and people have waited long enough lol!
I'm sorry to see you've stepped down and that things couldn't be worked out, it's huge a loss, so I'm very relived to see that you're staying and still working on your cool scenarios as you would be missed mate! I should point out that I was originally instructed not to interfere in the SL as you guys run yourselves, which I knew anyway. However I can see that I do have mod access to this section so if trouble arises with a spammer and SL staff are absent I can certainly jump in and deal with it if needed.
There should probably be a discussion about who is worthy of replacing your SF staff position though. Since I'm already in the regular Civ2 staff position and the SL has traditionally been it's own corner of the internet it feels like a bit of conflict of interest for me stick my nose in your business too lol. You and Techumseh and others contributed for decades before taking your positions and I've only been here a few years so I feel like I haven't really earned that position. Plus I'm not sure if the forum even technically allows a user to have 2 different staff positions (with their own different permissions) on a single account so that probably rules me out of contention no matter what anyway lol!
It's totally 100% up to you and
@techumseh to decide who it should be but
@Prof. Garfield (who already has full admin access to the SL wiki too) ,
@Knighttime , &
@JPetroski have all done so much for the SL & Civ2 community over the years and helped so many people so they'd all make great candidates in my book!
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