Heads up: I’m Retiring

Tommy

Tommy

Formerly Duskfall98
is a Community Contributoris a Forum Moderator Alumnus
Hello all, I am sure you all read the title and are in tears bawling your eyes out. I have officially become the longest serving mod on circus after ajs retirement. Alas my time has also swiftly come along.

We have had many ups and down, but mostly one big down and then one bigger up (in playerbase) during my time as mod. I really enjoy this community and I love mafia, it has been great for me to see this revival, both last year for noc and earlier this year for oc. I hope we continue to see growth in both communities and gain players/sustain our current user base.

I have to say, overall modding and seeing the community thrive again has been rewarding, but I also have to say I am well and truly drained from it after quite a few years at the helm of mafia stuff.

There was a time when I worried that I would be the last mafia mod on smogon, and when my career ended so would our dwindling mafia community. Luckily this is not the case and I get to pass the torch on to other mafia mods, a fairy, celever and of course joey. I am truly thankful for that because as mentioned, I love mafia. I am looking forward to being able to step back from balancing, checking, emergency takeovers etc, not so that I can disappear but hopefully so I can play more! (And not be stressed over games going horrifically - good luck with that remaining mod team).

I’ll still be helping out with checking when necessary, but primary responsibility for the community, and my general duties as a mod will be handed over, along with the colour of my badge following this post.

Thank you to everyone in the community who has been on my 10k+ post journey (please forgive me for the 10k being a vote count). I’d give special shout outs but the list is so long so instead I will say, thanks to the noc communitywho included me so early when I first arrived, thank you to the mod team before me for trusting me to be mod, thank you to the current mod team for being great to work with and a reliable caretaker to leave the community in the hands of, and thank you to the current playerbase. A lot of you can no longer be seen as new, but you’re still newer than me. In the declining playerbase that is forum mafia across the scope of the internet, it is amazing to see newer hands come to play and flourish and learn.

Thanks again and best of luck to everyone going forward. I hope to omgus you for years to come.
 
Duskfall98 said:
Hello all, I am sure you all read the title and are in tears bawling your eyes out. I have officially become the longest serving mod on circus after ajs retirement. Alas my time has also swiftly come along.

We have had many ups and down, but mostly one big down and then one bigger up (in playerbase) during my time as mod. I really enjoy this community and I love mafia, it has been great for me to see this revival, both last year for noc and earlier this year for oc. I hope we continue to see growth in both communities and gain players/sustain our current user base.

I have to say, overall modding and seeing the community thrive again has been rewarding, but I also have to say I am well and truly drained from it after quite a few years at the helm of mafia stuff.

There was a time when I worried that I would be the last mafia mod on smogon, and when my career ended so would our dwindling mafia community. Luckily this is not the case and I get to pass the torch on to other mafia mods, a fairy, celever and of course joey. I am truly thankful for that because as mentioned, I love mafia. I am looking forward to being able to step back from balancing, checking, emergency takeovers etc, not so that I can disappear but hopefully so I can play more! (And not be stressed over games going horrifically - good luck with that remaining mod team).

I’ll still be helping out with checking when necessary, but primary responsibility for the community, and my general duties as a mod will be handed over, along with the colour of my badge following this post.

Thank you to everyone in the community who has been on my 10k+ post journey (please forgive me for the 10k being a vote count). I’d give special shout outs but the list is so long so instead I will say, thanks to the noc communitywho included me so early when I first arrived, thank you to the mod team before me for trusting me to be mod, thank you to the current mod team for being great to work with and a reliable caretaker to leave the community in the hands of, and thank you to the current playerbase. A lot of you can no longer be seen as new, but you’re still newer than me. In the declining playerbase that is forum mafia across the scope of the internet, it is amazing to see newer hands come to play and flourish and learn.

Thanks again and best of luck to everyone going forward. I hope to omgus you for years to come.
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M2H is finally getting his wish after all these games, because we need to D1 massclaim our gratitude for this man and everything he's done to keep this community going. You were one of the faces of Circus when I joined and that won't change even if you feel like modding is something for other people to take care of now. Thank you Tommy :sphearical:
also sign up for a diplomacy game you goober
 
this is my GOAT

this dude tommy sacrificed his love of playing mafia to help manage and host mafia games for the community. from finding people to join games however rare they were before the end of last year, to check your games, to basically interim host other games, literally some of which he much rather would’ve played, all in order to make sure we have an active queue ran for the community FOR YEARS!!!

i don’t play much mafia anymore but even from afar i saw this guy tommy be an active force in bringing life and maintain smogon mafias revival through its various resuscitations, on and off through the years he’s been ready to engage with potential players and hosts alike ultimately making sure there was something to play if people were willing

thanks for all you’ve done and im glad i met you on fucking smogon dot com slash circus maximus, enjoy the retirement home
 
Thank you so, so much for making this community an amazing, inclusive, and fun experience. I would say I’ve made most of my “friends” on this section of the site. I really appreciate your efforts to not only grow this subforum, but introduce a lot of people to world of mafia as a whole. I hope to see you around in future games!

Also I will omgus you first :)

I also want to shoutout our current mods. I believe in all of you guys and I know you’ll bring Smogon mafia to new heights
 
farewell tommy, as a newer face to the community I didn't really get to know you that well but it was fun being mafia partners with you in Running it Back. thank you for everything you've done for Circus
 
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Hmm, wonder why DBD's retiri-OH. Damn.
 
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