User:Black.Ice
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Black.Ice is a moderator at Warboards. He has been a moderator since 2005.
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[edit] History
Black.Ice had been a sporadic lurker of Starcraft.org for many years but never registered nor posted there. He simply checked up on the site once every few months. On April 12th, 2004, he was came to Warboards to post about a problem he was having with StarCraft and connection issues with his router. He posted on the message board to resolve a problem, and was sucked into the beautiful allure of Warboards and the Online Roleplaying forum.
[edit] Forum Life
[edit] Pre-Staff
Black.Ice posted in the Starcraft Debriefing Room here and there, and slowly drifted to the Member's Lounge. He lurked, and then found his way into the roleplaying forum. Black.Ice had been an avid roleplayer, but hadn't found the opportunity to roleplay in several years. Seeing the forum provided him with an opportunity to try an old hobby of his that he missed.
He read up on some fo the running RP's, and joined a few putting his effort into it. Despite his efforts, he wasn't really recognized. He had just posted here and there. After spending several months on the forums, he realized that he wasn't too happy with the roleplaying but he enjoyed the atmosphere and decided to stay around.
In the Fall of 2004, Black.Ice slowly returned to roleplaying. He was disappointed in the quality of RP's and decided to start his own -- a massive one. He started The Beginning.
The Beginning was a huge success. It quickly grew to be the largest RP on the forums, and was extremely active. With the onset of such a successful RP, Black.Ice, a relative newbie became someone known.
[edit] Staff
On the 18th of February, Black.Ice was on IRC discussing with some of his peers the future of his RP and what they thought of it. He received a private message from AJ, inquiring about his interest in the staff. At that time, Black.Ice did not really dwell in forum politics and distanced himself from the staff. With his RP not running smoothly, and other outside time constraints, Black.Ice was not interested in Warboards. He was on the verge of leaving.
Later that night, he received a PM from AJ stating that he had been given a moderator position. Black.Ice was baffled. He didn't even know the names of the staff, much less, how to moderate. At first, he thought it was a joke. He was now the only moderator at the time who was new, and hadn't been part of the BlizzForums split.
When AJ announced the news to the public, they offered their congratulations while a few members attempted to find out how a member they hadn't even heard of became a moderator.
Black.Ice, being a forum newbie himself, felt empathy for the newbies who were once like himself. He took a vow to help these newbies out, and moderate without insulting nor degrading anyone. He has a strong belief that members should be given second chances, and a forum should be a place for fun. He disliked older members imposing their superiority over new members as it had happened to him.
Black.Ice has been a moderator since. He briefly retired in 2006 due to time constraints and personal reasons, but soon came back. He has been active since, however, there have been brief periods of random, inexplicable inactivity.
[edit] Roleplaying
Black.Ice is one of the senior roleplayers on the forum, and tries to help whenever he can. Below is a list of RP's he started.
- The Beginning
- Quest of Muniaya
- Improve Your Skills RP
- Improve Your Skills RP V2
- Community RP 1
- Community RP 2
- Community RP 3
- Community RP 4
- Star Trek : Rift
