10-04-2013, 07:52 PM
A few weeks before you rejoined the RDF, most of the admin staff (and, along with them, most members) walked out to form ORE, due to rather serious problems that the admins and the host couldn't get by. We didn't make ORE to compete with the RDF, we made ORE because, even as the majority of the administrators of the RDF, we could not deal with the hosting problems. We left to rebuild, as the RDF's hosting was going to crap, pushing the community to other servers (that was the scary part.) After we left, the few remaining admins tried to run the place, but ultimately dropped back to inactivity. Any celebration on that day was more out of respect for what the RDF used to be, before disconnect.spam, over a week of downtime, months in between updates, complete inability to get server logs / backups, and various other pestilences choked the members off the server. The hollow shell that remained when we left to remake the RDF was nothing compared to what it once was, and stayed floating largely by the spite of the remaining inactive admins. When they finally quit, and let the RDF die, we were happy. I'm unsure if some ORE-original members took this as a competition, but staff, for the most part, was fairly neutral about that point and treated it as the above situation. (We carried over a few tempbans for RDF griefing, on more than one occasion.)
Why most do not mourn:
There was never any selfish competition, merely some admins sick of the same old shit from a host. (Ended up taking shape like the UTD -> RDF branch, except was more of a migration than a new server. At the beginning, anyways. You returned after this all happened, and found the RDF quite empty, after the move.)
That's my scoop, and I do not mourn. One of the most active RDF administrators for nearly two years, I do not mourn. A name is a name is a name, and by any other name this community is still just as sweet.
<3 RDF/ORE Redstoners
Why most do not mourn:
(09-30-2013, 08:52 PM)Guy1234567890 Wrote: ^that's because we are the same people who were on the RDF
There was never any selfish competition, merely some admins sick of the same old shit from a host. (Ended up taking shape like the UTD -> RDF branch, except was more of a migration than a new server. At the beginning, anyways. You returned after this all happened, and found the RDF quite empty, after the move.)
That's my scoop, and I do not mourn. One of the most active RDF administrators for nearly two years, I do not mourn. A name is a name is a name, and by any other name this community is still just as sweet.
<3 RDF/ORE Redstoners