User blog comment:Ananasz/My First Blog/@comment-2047157-20120416013657/@comment-1915803-20120417031432

I would like to finally put down the gears of this very long flight that was my absence and inconsistent activity for the past half year and respond to a couple of things in this blog.

First of all, Doc, I believe you referred to me when you said "[One of the admins] has a medical condition…", with the implication that this was the sole reason behind my unfortunate hiatus from the wiki. While this may have been a contributing factor, the most prominent reasons for this are 1) the fact that I've magically somehow gotten a life recently (crazy, right?), 2) I've been busier with school (AP classes and otherwise difficult/time-consuming courses [and on a larger scale next school year]), and 3) lack of motivation. Really, I would like to get on more, but the aforementioned three factors plus my Crohn's Disease are just serious inhibitors of my time. I don't find myself wanting to put much effort into any side projects in my life such as this because it isn't quite as large of a priority as, say my medical life, social life, and academic life. Not to say that I don't immensely love this community and wiki for what it gives, it has just fallen behind in the scale of importance right now. Probably over the summer I'll have more time to edit, monitor, and comment, but then things will slow down again as my junior year starts this August.

I would also like to point out that unfavorable changes made two, three, or four years ago by the admins of that time are not entirely relevant to today. The admin community has become more experienced, especially during the heyday in 2010, and things greatly improved from their 2008 state with the help of admins like Jspyster, Jr.2k8, myself, and later admins. Plus, several recurring editors have contributed greatly to our cause. I'm not sure what particular reverts you're referring to, but I can assure you that since that time, admins have been more focused on undoing vandalism, speculation, and other nonsense/gibberish and leaving much of the fine-tuning to other dedicated regulars. I cannot speak for all of us, but these are my own observations.

On the subject of Stealthghost, there was a time when he was definitely unfavorable and a "badge-grabber". But he's proven his reform to us and has shown to be a consistent, dedicated, and reliable editor. Because of the dearth of admins at the time, Jspyster made the decision to upgrade his status to adminship probably a bit more hastily than in a more normal, active-admin setting, but it happened and it hasn't been too wrong. While I agree he has flaws, I believe he's deserving of his title and has the dignity to continuously uphold it.

Ed, Edd n Eddy is undoubtedly beginning to decrease in popularity, and a result, the wiki is decreasing in activity. It will be a gradual decline until a fixed level of low activity begins to stagnate. For now, we can still monitor for poor edits, add new content, and fix what you consider is broken.

Thanks for your contributions.