User:SSWerty/A short history of DBF

To start ourselves off, I've been active here since February 2010, and hold the record for longest consistently active user here. Throughout my time here, many, many things have happened. My very first contribution here was starting my story, Dragon Ball ST. During the course of writing it, nothing interesting really happened, save my promotion to administrator in early April.

I finished ST in early June, and took a break from fanon writing for a period. Of course, I was still active, just not posting any content. Anyway, throughout the time I had been writing ST, users had started to trickle in. I was the only user here for about one or two months, but it was when I started promoting ST outside the site, mainly on the canon Dragon Ball Wiki that we gained some very notable users joined in that period, namely NomadMusik, SonikFan112, PiccoloTheSuperNamek, etc. Most are still around today.

Now, a lot of these users started writing their own fanons. Most were rubbish, and this continued like that for some time. For some reason, ST was probably the most admired fanon on the site, and it started to get copied a lot. This annoyed me, and so I started to talk to users, telling them to think up their own ideas. And so we started to get a little bt of diversity within the wiki.

Anyway, a vandal came along, known as .900 .500. I was inactive for about three days, and during that time, he ran riot. Or at least that's what I was told. So I banned him permanently, and that was the end of it. PiccoloTheSuperNamek (PTSN) decided to talk to the Wikia Staff, and got both himself and myself promoted to bureaucrat status. SonikFan112 was promoted to administrator.

The wiki was pretty stable for a month or so. I started on additional ST-related projects, and a small user who kept to himself mostly joined. He was named KidVegeta. Anyways, news of Wikia's decision to replace the skin came to DBF. Most of us were annoyed, but not so much that we would leave the wiki. Most of us. PTSN, however, was angry, and attempted several vandal attacks on the main Wikia site. The rest of our community were apalled at this behaviour from a bureaucrat, and openly spoke this.

Feeling cornered and without allies, PTSN left the wiki, only to come back a week later and vandalise everything and be a dick. Of course, because he was a bureaucrat, we couldn't do anything. I couldn't demote him, else I would have, and so I ended up having to get a wikia staff member to come and demote him for us. That was some great fun then.

So to fill the gap left by PTSN's departure as bureaucrat, Princeofallsalads was promoted. And so the wiki continued for a while without incident. We had a few PTSN attacks, but they were over with a simple ban. A fanon known as The Forgotten started to gain readers and followers, a user by the name of Destructivedisk joined. KidVegeta was promoted to administrator. And so we had an awards ceremony, our first one. I was inactive for a month then, and so couldn't arrive to pick up my two awards, unfortunately.

I was inactive for much of the first few months of 2011, due to my personal life interfering. But I returned to find that we had set up a chat system for the DBF. All was going well. But, one day I logged on to find an anon insulting SonikFan112's administrator abilities. I promptly banned the anon, and thought that was the end of it. However, I was soon to find out that I had banned Princeofallsalads, who had logged out of his account in order to insult SonikFan.

After consulting KidVegeta and other well-respected members of our community, it was decided that Princeofallsalads was to be demoted from his role as bureaucrat. And again I thought that was the end of it. But several more users came forward to me and we spoke of other matters regarding the site's administration, and so a consensus was reached. I was given the difficult task of asking poor SonikFan112 to step down as admin.

And so he did. To replace both Princeofallsalads and SonikFan112, we promoted KidVegeta to bureaucrat, and Destructivedisk and Hyper Zergling to administrator. Not much has since happened.

So I guess you could say I hold another record; I'm the longest running user with sysop privileges that is still active.