Janime

[nikil_san]

Those who don't go to Janime can ignore this. =(

Like my mood thingy says, I'm starting to feel guilty being a mod on Janime. I remember when it was such a nice place at the beginning. There was hardly any trouble-making, everyone was nice, there was no wars because GX didn't exist then, it was just a better place.

Sure it was small, but it made you feel like you were part of a family. It helped me deal with junior high, which was complete hell (especially 8th grade. *Shudders*). The only problems there were was the space provided since Janime started on a weak forum that needed a lot of cleaning, and unable to hold a lot of space. Then, Janime got it's first hacking and those who were loyal to Janime stayed and helped her rebuild it. That was what made the original mod team so strong. We had Archy (or Arch Angel if you wanted to call him that) was our big brother that helped us along. As Janime got bigger, and more and more of the original team left, it slowly became more and more obvious things aren't what they used to me.

Why am I talking about this? Because I've noticed how bad Janime has become. It's almost like a completely different forum than I remember, and Hikari no Yugi and I are the last remaining original mods. I've been thinking about retiring and leaving Janime. But I didn't want to leave until I stopped RPGing, and I have.

It doesn't help that people are leaving Janime because of the bad people, and others are too scared to join. It makes me feel like I'm part of something not good.

I wonder if I should just retire and finally leave. I've been on there for 5+ years and I hardly do anything or stay on there anymore. I miss Archy, Tea Gardner, Clair, SeatreasureReturned, Dark Malik, Yami/Kaiba, Yugi Daydreamer, and Athena.

Comments

[digitalstarry.livejournal.com]

It really has changed, even me whose been on there for only six months has noticed how bad its gotten. Most of the veterans hardly go on or the have abandoned it. Now its mostly filled with bad people >>

I would leave honestly, you don't get any pleasure out of it anymore and you seem to have nothing to do with it now

[nikil-san.livejournal.com]

I've going to do so. Seeing as I've only been going there to re-read old RPGs and not modding anymore, I should. The mod team is so big that I'm not really needed, plus I can't really do my job since the forum is too big and by the time I get to a problem, it's already solved.

I'm going to wait a few weeks before I leave my farewell posts and go. I want to read all the dead RPGs and record what I need first. I'm currently trying to turn some of the RPGs I've been into fanfics *coughmagicallittlesecretcough*.

Too bad Hikari no Yugi will be the last original mod left. I'll have to let my friends know too.

[digitalstarry.livejournal.com]

Ah, to me it seems like some of the mods need to be demoted or something because Janime has at least a dozen mods and at least another dozen of these half-mods(why are they half-mods anyway?) most of them do little to no moderating. Though it isn't really their fault since the need for moderating isn't very much. Then again, it does take awhile sometimes for a mod to jump in to something that needs to be handled.

Sounds like a great idea, in fact one of my friends is doing the same thing ^~

Yeah and though she is technically an admin and she is hardly on and never posts anymore...

[nikil-san.livejournal.com]

The half-mods are for the Janime wikia.

Oh really? Not much people are into YGO RPGs anymore. That's why it's pretty much dead.

That's true. Once she and I go, Janime won't have anything from the old times left. Poor Janime. She's a really nice person. =(

[digitalstarry.livejournal.com]

Ah gotcha~

Yeah, I have seen plenty of people rp here like on ygodressing for instance, most of the rps on Janime are dead but around here they are doing quite well.

Thats sad, I have never really spoken to Janime herself, but she is nice person and its sad that she's losing everybody now :c

[nikil-san.livejournal.com]

It makes me feel guilty leaving because it will hurt Janime's feelings, but I don't think I'll be able to stay for another year. T_T I remember she felt hurt when a lot of original mods left her after the first hacking of the forum back in the day. Only those who were loyal stayed.

I'll check out that community. Maybe I'll be able to RPG again.