[Old] !!! MAJOR Changes!

[Orochimaru]

All right. I have a lot to say to you all as your head administrator.

I know I've been sleeping a lot through the winter, and that's encouraged everyone and everything here to be slow. I'm to blame about that, since the admin is supposed to set the example, but now it's spring. At least where I am. So I'm determined to get things here moving again.

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First off, I have a change of forum rules to announce. I'm just drawing your attention to it, but you can't read about it here. Go to the usual Rule Changes thread (), where we've always been updating things like that. It will be the most recent post there, by me, of course.

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Secondly, there is an activity check. Yeah, yeah, I know, I've been posting and stressing this everywhere. It's obviously because I love my members and, although I've said I'll be harsh this time, I really don't want to lose you guys.

I've already detailed this for you in: (a) a mass e-mail; and (b) a mass PM. So please go to the Activity Checks board or conveniently click on the link I've left you in those mass notifications. If you registered later than the 28th of February 2008, don't mind this and just go on about your other business on the forum. xD

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Very Important!

There will be a huge change in staff activity and duties.

You may have noticed for a while now that I am the only truly active admin on this site. Now I've managed to get in touch with both of my co-admins at once, in a Yahoo Messenger conference, and we've had a serious conversation about this. Important decisions have been made.

When this forum was created, all three of us had a lot of time to be on and take care of it. That's no longer the case with Tsunade, and to a certain degree not even with Jiraiya. Both of them have important things to say to you, through me for now.


Tsunade's Statement:

I'm really sorry, but lately I haven't been online more than an hour a week at most. I'm sure everyone agrees this is not enough to allow me to do anything, least of all take care of a forum. So I have to regretfully announce that I'm going to give up my admin status and my account. This is permanent. It's been nice knowing you all, but I have to say good bye. Maybe I'll come back as a normal member some time, if I stabilize this situation and make more room for online activities in my life. Have fun, everyone.

As a consequence of this, I will need Ino's player to contact me. She was in a thread with Tsunade, and I would very much like to agree on something that should be done with it. Also, all of you whose profiles have been approved by Tsunade, expect your threads to be replied to by me. I'll be deleting her posts, so I'll need to switch your approval statements to myself.


As for Jiraiya, I'm sure he'd like to let you all know what he's doing directly, so why not let him reply here himself? xD

[Miyajima Saori]

Let's be brief and to the point, shall we?

I don't have too much time on my hands, but I think I'll manage to stay active enough. The problem isn't my limited time online, like in Tsunade's case. I'm on every day and I can and will keep being an admin. But what I definitely can't handle right now is having two accounts.

So I'm giving up Deidara, as much as I enjoy his character. It's simpler than giving up Jiraiya, because then there'd be need for a lot of nasty post deletion and all that. And I'd be bothering a few of you, too, if that happened. More yet. I'm giving up Deidara to one of you.

Want Deidara? These are my terms and conditions. I'll give him to you if:

+ You don't have more than two other accounts.
+ You fill in the canon application for him properly, of course.
+ You agree to continue the role-play I had going with Itachi. (I've only made one post there. So all you actually agree to is keeping it as though it were yours and continuing the thread it's in. This is to avoid inconveniencing Itachi.)

PM me (on my Jiraiya account, please). Include the completed application in that message and, if I like you, I'll give you the details of how to gain possession of Deidara.

P.S. - If more than one person applies, I reserve the right to select the one whose message I liked best. I'll modify this post when someone has been chosen.

[Orochimaru]

All right, so.

I have one last thing to add after all of this. Once I'm done deleting Tsunade's posts and the likes, we'll need a new admin to replace her.

I'll be discussing this with my moderators in a staff-only board that you people can't see. So, mods, please take the hint and check there.

Once someone's been chosen (and that someone has also agreed to be the new admin), we'll be notifying everyone with an announcement, of course.

Thanks!