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I apologise for the sudden nature of this, but I am offering my resignation from any official positions at SEN, and I ask that you accept it.

The reasons for my desire to resign are not complicated - I feel that I've had a long and reasonably successful tenure, and I think it's time to move on. Recently I have had less and less time for moderating - and there seems to have been less of a necessity for me to carry out any active work anyway. The days when Kellimus and friends were tearing up the forums are long gone, and people with a stronger work ethic or better relationships with SEN's members, like DTBK and Doodan, have taken up the full responsibility for punishing rulebreakers and investigating suspicious members. My position as GM has become something of a privileged sinecure and there would appear to be little point in me continuing as a member of the site's staff. You're doing a great job without me. I've also become less conservative recently, and I find it difficult to enforce rules which I disagree with.

I would also like to state that I'm not going to pull a Mike and turn up on Maplantis as 'Tau' or anything like that. Despite my support for Open Mapping and OSMap, I am still loyal to SEN and wouldn't carry out what I would consider a betrayal. Besides, I am essentially retiring from the Starcraft scene entirely. I may be back occasionally, but I feel that I have wasted a part of my life on Internet forums and I want to move on. Personal reasons relating to other people, such as my friends and girlfriend, have also come into my decision, but I do not wish to discuss them here.

I'll rest easy in the knowledge that I tried to help out the site while I was here: I attempted to convince people like Kellimus that they were in the wrong and uncover his numerous accounts, but I guess that never worked out. I wrote the mod's code of conduct which I hope Moose found useful when he was writing up v5's rules. Apart from that, I just tried to moderate fairly.

I hope you won't be too annoyed at the nature of my departure. SEN is a part of my life which I will always remember.

-Will

The ultimate level of being a SEN member is to be finally able to move past it all. Congrats O Enlightened One.

lol...

What is sinecure?

Also, back on point, it's good that you pretty much told everyone here how you felt and why you were doing this. Unlike myself which I pretty much disappeared for a few months.

Goodbye Will. You are a shining example of moderatory conduct, and it's been an honor.

Have fun in that "real world".

A job that doesn't require a lot of work.

Sorry to see you go. It was great to work with you, and I definitely looked up to you. I do hope you come back now and then.

Take care, friend.

Best hire ever.

I have to admit, you were always someone I admired. Its sad to see you go, but we will all eventually come to the same conclusion in our own times.

*Syphon concurs

10-4, good buddy.

Why would we think you would?

Alrighty man. We all gotta go sometime. It's been nice reading your educated posts and thanks for your service to the forums .
Drop by occasionally and say hi, yeah?

Thanks for the nice comments - I'm not sure whether to post a leaving thread on the rest of the site or not. If I don't I'm sure the information will filter down anyway, but I think I should do it.

I haven't played SC on Battle.net for a very long time (not since my install got corrupted and I lost the case with the cd-key) - I remember Map Nights were pretty fun.

I said I wouldn't go into detail about my personal reasons, but I will say that I've been put under a bit of pressure to break my links of responsibility with the Internet. People have been saying it to me for years though, and I've only just taken notice. Getting heavily involved in forums can be destructive to a social life, especially if you're trying to build one which you didn't really have to begin with. I've always realised that but never acted on it or tried to find a balance. I guess you could say that I have an addictive personality and that computers, in one form or another, have been the focus of that. I am doubtful of my ability to change and I don't like the idea of just leaving everything behind, but I suppose it's all-or-nothing really.

Edit: Yes, I hope to stop by occasionally. I have SEN in my quick-links bar so I'll probably click it often out of habit. Of course I could delete the bookmark to remove temptation...

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Because I support OSMap and all that stuff.

Aye Aye captain.

You are right though... along with golden fist, we don't really need to many moderators lately. Perhaps we need to do more staff restructuring and give people other... duties... involving enhancing the community.

Peace Will.

Dang, that's a great loss. You were an awesome mod.