Activity: Frequent and common
Contributions: Each and every option
Perceived nature of involvement: Significant/influential
Personal feeling of involvement: Fulfilling/occupying/distracting
Personal benefits from participating: Each and every option
Expected future commitment: Subjectively maintained/limited/ceasing

You know, I have seen this wiki go through both its worst and best. I have grown an emotional fondness for the place and its people (even if I have banned and blocked half and a quarter of the people around here and argued to death with 100% of them) which have permitted me to stay for long periods of time. However, I have found myself immersed in many problems that I crave did not occur, I have damaged my image innumerable amount of times, I hurt people and I know it is too late to say that I am sorry for remarkable episodes; deep in my heart I am, I never fully endeavor to injure or offend anyone, I just have a wrong way of dealing with problems and this is the result, I have inclined all the new staff not to become one like me and they can affirm. This has led me many times to review my position and my own recognition of the flow of the masses around here and I always accomplish the same, but it has never made me doubt of my genuine contributions which I know have been only for the best. I concede that I am the type of person who criticizes everything and expects everyone to agree with my word without doing an actual operation, and the reason that I do not do anything in many cases is because I find myself incapable of proceeding whether because of lack of compromise or incompetency.

I always come home to this website and it does not matter how much shit I spew about it or how trivial its information has converted. However, nothing lasts forever and I see myself in a crisis of time, self-involvement and interest. I have grown older, I joined this place when I had recently turned 15 and I already am turning 18 very soon, and life is taking advantage of it. My obligations have strengthened, my need to be a better version of myself has gotten much more powerful, and my focus on my career and to become what I want to be, needless to say, weighs more than any other thing I could confront in life.

I have learned a lot from this place, its people, and its leaders. Words would not let me thank each of you for the things you have done, so a thank you must serve. I know that I hardly ever express to any of you how great you are doing and I only call it out when you do something wrong, but do know that deep inside I am beholden for your actions and for staying over notwithstanding our current situation. I know it does not look like it, but I respect all of you and I intend to keep it that way despite all the insults and hysterical exchange of words we have had in the years. You are my friends, even if we have not met one another.

Sadly, I do not expect to stay a staff member for any lengthened period of time anymore, which is liable to change at particular circumstances. I have discussed my leaving with a few people and I am just waiting for my agenda to die out of free time to state my possible retirement; I will be a commoner, one cannot just leave behind a piece of your life and pretend it never happened.

There is still more of me to share the moments and I am willing to explore each opportunity I am given and it will be worth it if shared with you, fuckheads. Cheers for dealing and coping with each other all these years, there is always more pain in the ass than now, we are not even close to being done yet.

You Australian fucker shall perish in the flames of hell. We will meet right there, this is not over. All just to show once again that I am superior to you. Deep inside you know I have reached you and that I am soon to pass you, and you ought to pass to me something precise. ;)

Activity: Common

Contributions: Around Article tweaking, article defending & Image management

Perceived nature of involvement: Relevant/helpful

Personal feeling of involvement: Satisfying

Personal benefits from participating: Online friendships & management ability

Expected future commitment:

• Short-term span: Subjectively maintained

• Long-term span: Either W. Maintained or limited.

Being part of the staff inside this Wikia gave me a lot of good moments and bad moments while managing and/or handling issues, as well to meet some new pals online. Managing or keeping this Wikia in order

Being part of the staff inside this Wikia, I learn a lot from the good and the bad moments brought here, learned some lessons and get taught with new abilities or experiences. As well to meet pals from around the world online, especially meeting people from my country (Incluyendo al copadre de la Patria Nusdan) who play/used to play the game that brought all of us here.

I am aware that the wiki may have it's huge waves of activities and other times it dies out (Due to the developement time between updates in the game), but trying to keep this place in order and revert/prevent vandalism is sure one of my things.

But as I included the "Limited" in the future commitment, I might not be around like I used to be before, cause college, but I will keep helping the wikia when I am free. It's great being part of this wikia's staff and (comparing the time I joined here) I repect all of you who made the wikia like it is now.

Still alive, but screw the internet here >:v

Activity: Occasional

Contributions: 

- Article Defending

- Image Management

- Chat Moderation

Perceived Nature of Involvement: Minor/General

Personal Feeling of Involvement: Occupying

Personal Benefits from Participating: 

- English Language Knowledge

- Communication Ability

- Online Friendships

- General Wiki Knowledge

Expected Future Commitment: Limited

Activity: As of late, just periodic. I check the wiki every day to make sure nothing seems out of the ordinary about twice a day lately. 

Contributions: (saying this without keeping my activity the past month in mind)

- Article Tweaking/Defending

- A bit of image management and a bit of organisation

- Small bit of maintenance

- Social/Chat moderation

- Social Management

Perceived nature of involvement: Minor/general

Personal feeling of involvement: Satisfying

Personal benefites from participating:

- Communication ability

- Online friendships

- Discipline in carrying out tasks

- Critical thinking and problem solving

- Management ability

- Responsibility

- Cooperation

- General wiki knowledge

- Small bit of CSS knowledge (thank you Nusdan)

Expected Future Commitment: Limited. I say this because I will have to start juggling loads of things for a long while (like I am now), and I just simply won't have as much free time as I used to. 

Activity: periodic due to personal issues in real life that I'm attempting to handle.

Contributions: Article tweaking/defending, maintenance, social moderation, chat moderation, social activity organizing, concept introduction

Perceived nature of involvement: Relevant/helpful

Personal feeling of involvement: Satisfying, sometimes occupying

Personal benefits from participating: Each one of the above options, maybe more :P

Expected future commitment: I think around the same as it is now. I am heading on to college next year (#UCLA), so let's see how that goes, but that shouldn't change anything.

Even though I've only been on every once in a while, I've learned to stick up for myself. I've learned to express myself to others. I've learned to respect and love everyone. I've learned to not only take but also to serve. I've learned to be wise. I've learned to work with others. I've learned to be hopeful. I've learned to appreciate. I've learned to discover myself, even when I feel that it's impossible.

That's why I always choke up every time I need to write about my experiences on Wikia. I don't know where to start. It has been a life changer (and not to mention lifesaver) for me. Especially when I joined in the tenth grade, words can't describe how I was feeling back then and the emotional roller coaster that I've gone through now. Yes, I always get the response that I become too sentimental about everything and don't come off as strong as intended, but that's because of the things that I've gone through in school and all the crap that I have to deal with everyday. I understand that my English is limited but it's the only thing I have. I know my weaknesses, but the part I hate is that people occasionally make fun of me for it, and even worse, take advantage. What happens in my school here throughout these last four years have decimated me emotionally, and so I invest a lot of my emotions into this place. Forgive me if I can't take something calmly. In today's world, everything is always messed up. There's war everywhere, and it's something that we just all have to live through.

This place is perhaps the best safe haven I know. Think about it, we're able to become close friends even though we come from all over the world!! Yeah, it's not perfect, but then after all, no place is. That's why I don't think I'll ever "retire" and "disappear." I've been here for only three years, and that's only a start. I always look forward to the miles I have ahead on Wikia, whether it be here, on Discord, or maybe even a different community with familiar faces. I'll continue because of all of you guys. You've helped me so much, and I'm honored to be a part of such a community. Every living day, I'm so thankful for creating an account and making that first edit on Wikia.

Regarding the reasons why I left (people ask me over PM), for that month, I was dealing with a bunch of attitude issues in my orchestra class. Then a family issue occurred on top of that, which really filled this year with tears. It's not something I want to post outright, but I'll share over PM with you if I feel comfortable.

I know it's not the place to put it, and he'll never see it on the GD Wikia of all places, but I'm so thankful to have met Vladimir here at school. He has really helped me up and stuck with me through my highs and lows. We've been through so much together, and I don't know anyone who is as kind, thoughtful as he is. I'm so honored to have known him as a friend. I wouldn't be here if it weren't for him. You probably believe I've gotten over those thoughts in the tenth grade, but those feelings have especially came back strong this semester. Without you, I would have turned myself in to end everything. I wouldn't be breathing right now if you haven't entered my life at the right time.

And I will be devastated yet again when we leave each other on June 9th. The only difference is this time, I'm leaving for college. This friendship will be the one that defines my high school years because you're the reason for my existence today. Any accomplishment I make in my future is indebted to you. Also, every year at graduation, I always give my friends a little present for them, but you, Vlad; I won't be able to do that. After much thought, I actually don't think I'll be able to give you anything - I won't have the heart to. Even though my other friends will be getting some pretty cool stuff, I apologize in advance that I'll be only able to give you a little post-it note with three letters on it: I.O.U. Why? Because I believe whatever I give will never amount to how much you have done for me.

As I say again, "only the true friend comes around to help you up when you are hurting the most. You may not find him right away, but he's there for you." Taking a deep breath, smiling, and reminiscing my four years in high school, I'm SO glad I found him after eighteen years.

-A. V. H.

Where's yours, kangaroo?

Alright, here goes.

• Activity: Frequent
• Contributions:
  • Article tweaking (minor)
  • Article defending (vandalism reversion)
  • Social moderation (message walls, forum, Discussions)
• Perceived nature of involvement: Minor/general
• Personal feeling of involvement: Satisfying (Soon to be Occupying once I go back to school in 14 days).
• Personal benefits from participating:
  • English language knowledge
  • Online friendships
  • Cooperation
  • General wiki knowledge
  • HTML knowledge
• Expected future commitment: Sustained long term (Soon to be limited once I go back to school).

I am proud of gaining this position, since I now have the power to close threads, remove posts, and delete unnecessary pages by myself without telling or waiting others to do it. Before the nomination of the new moderator team, people have gradually left the wiki and moved to Discord, causing this wiki to be completely devoid of moderators, until now.

My activity is frequent as usual, because I regularly visit this place every day.

As for my contributions, I usually only step in once it's absolutely necessary, or if it's requested by someone to do something that only moderators and above could do, such as deleting irrelevant images and rolling back vandalism.

For my perceived nature of involvement, it's minor because all I did was general "maintaining the forum" stuff like closing threads and removing inappropriate posts that may genuinely offend other users or start unnecessary drama.

As for my personal benefits from participating:

• My English language knowledge was already good when compared to the rest of my classmates. But since I come from a country where English is not the native language, coming to an online place like this may help myself improve my English knowledge by searching the words that I never knew about, in order to find their meaning.
• As for online friendships, I have many friends on Discord to keep in touch with, which consists of users who are still active here, and those who left Wikia in favor of Discord. It's a personal benefit for me because I don't have to be lonely when staying at home anymore, because whenever I take a break from school for 1-2 months, I feel isolated from my classmates until I go back to school.
• Cooperation? I'm friends with the 2 other moderators on Discord, and I usually request them to do moderator work that I wanted to do, such as removing posts whenever a flame war is started on a thread, but I'm unable to do so because of the inconvenience of using Wikia on mobile, such as when I'm at school.
• As for my general wiki knowledge, I know about some things concerning Wikia in general, as a result of wandering around Wikia several years before I created my account. And since then, I occassionally look up help pages on the Community Central to learn more about Wikia.
• For my HTML knowledge, I've been formatting my posts for years, but of course, that doesn't mean I'm the best at it. I saw someone who made their posts fancy with HTML codes, and I wondered how could I make posts like them. Eventually, I learned how to view forum posts in source mode, which is required to copy and paste them without messing up my posts, and to learn about them.

My expected future commitment would be a sustained long term, considering that I have been on this wiki for 3 years, and even if many have left, which includes almost every old users, I still decided to stay here. However, there will be a period that it'll shift to limited once I go back to school, since I need to be careful about my grades in the future, and need to be decisive about my priorities. But after school is over again, I will become available for moderation once more.

Activity: Frequent

Contributions:

• Article Tweaking
• Article Improvement
• Article defending (vandalism reversion)
• Image management (uploading/replacing) (I've been taking this role recently.
• Organisation (categories, navigation bar)
• Social moderation (message walls, forum, Discussions)
• Chat moderation

Percieved Nature of Involvement: Relevant/Helpful

Personal Feeling of Involvement: Satisfying (I got some exams coming up soon, so it would be Occupying a little. But other than that, we're good)

Personal benefits from participating

• English language knowledge (a bit)
• Communication ability
• Online friendships
• Creativity
• Planning ability
• Discipline in carrying out tasks
• Critical thinking and problem solving
• Management ability
• Responsibility
• Cooperation
• Leadership
• General wiki knowledge

Expected future commitment: Sustained long term

This is a short reflection.

I have originally started off as a regular user in the wiki around August 2016, though officially being active around September or October. I used to be a sole forum gamer, however I wanted to redirect my attention to helping out the community more.

Being a moderator had opened new doors for me as I learned how to become more responsible and carry out tasks. It also allowed me to bring closer relationships to my friends in and out of the Geometry Dash Wiki. I was not sure if I was fit to be moderator during the elections, as I wasn't nominated by anyone and I felt my contributions were minimal. Then again, everyone has to start somewhere. The opportunity of being a staff has helped me boost such activity.

It also allowed me to take the wiki more seriously rather than just fun and games. I used to fool around a lot in the forum games. Now, I make sure to contribute to the wiki while still maintaining my forum game playing. After all, just because you are a staff member doesn't mean you can't play forum games.

Now... being an Administrator... I wasn't expecting it at all, in all honesty. I really just wanted the ability to block users in case of any outbreak of sockpuppets and trolls, ever since the Infobreaker incident. However, you, Hackey, decided that I was fit for being an Admin and promoted me without much hesitation. I was scared when I first found out, but I was also ecstatic. This is the first wiki I've ever been an actual staff in and it's helped me take on the role of leadership.. but being an Admin 4 months after being a Mod? I thought it was overwhelming, especially with people congratulating m with a role I have never taken before.

However, people such as TimewornKaiju and EndermanR169 told me not to panic, and that I'll do fine. This helped me boost my confidence, and now I feel that I am a strong user and a person that is good enough to be called trustworthy :)

In fact, being an administrator allows me to take on numerous leadership roles, such as helping the other two moderators take on THEIR leadership role. As of now, we've created a system of warnings that follows:

If a user is creating some issues that are controversial, concerning or anything similar, the user would be warned through a 3-strike process:

• Strike 1: Warned by moderator - mild confrontation
• Strike 2: Warned by me or any other administrator - a more serious confrontation, final warning
• Strike 3: Blocking user within the range of 1 day - 1 week.

However, if there is serious acts of vandalism or disrespect, then the user may automatically get blocked.

I currently run a group discussion with the moderators, one other administrator and a retired staff member regarding any situations in the wiki, and boy, has it been helpful.

All in all, I'd like to thank you for this opportunity and I'll promise I'll take good use of it :D

I've finished mine!

Hackey, will you be doing one for yourself as well?

And Sweg, I'm awaiting yours too. :)

Activity: Periodic

Contributions: The whole lot - I do everything, right?

Perceived nature of involvement: Significant/influential

Personal feeling of involvement: Satisfying

Personal benefits from participating: In addition to just about all those skills, the managerial aspect is something that has been transferred beyond the wiki, working with people and groups in a variety of contexts. Learning ways to communicate with all kinds of people has been significant, so too the intriguing online friendships.

Expected future commitment: Sustained long term

In your own words, how do you feel about having participated on the Geometry Dash Wiki as a staff member?

Responding to this thread is something that has been in the back of my mind (and sitting in a browser tab) for years. This will be my 30,000th edit. I figured that it was time that I finally threw down these cards. I delayed responding for an incredibly long time because my answer was not yet certain. In the years that have passed, I grappled with the idea that someday I should give this pursuit up in favour of far more meaningful and productive activities. Time is better spent elsewhere. And while I still firmly agree with that statement, the truth is that I also could never justify why I should end it. I’ve gone a month before without editing. Even then, I still felt the need to come back. My presence on the wiki is not as frequent as it once was, understandably. My motivation is nowhere as high as it used to be, and hopefully so, because that would be quite extreme. But my investment remains. I’ve put countless hours into what started as a ‘side project’ alongside another wiki I was more focussed on at the time. Unlike that wiki, my contributions here have gone much further. In the end, it’s still a random Internet website, but the long way it’s came and all those who have travelled through in their own journeys of sorts, it’s something I can’t help but acknowledge that I’ve been instrumental to that occurring. No one really cares, and that’s just how it is. Yet, it’s significant in itself, and nice to look back on. Oh, and we’re not done yet. ;)

Further on from the general sentiments, I’ve indeed accumulated skills, the most obvious being becoming knowledgeable of CSS as evidenced by the comprehensive site styling, along with some interesting people skills you wouldn’t pick up unless you go at it for as long as I have. I won’t forget to mention being able to satisfy myself with some masterful organisation of the place, some guilty self-indulgence right there. I’ve met some good fellas here as well, which might just be the most unexpected thing as I would never have anticipated some friendships to persist for as long as they have. Not to mention, hanging with quite the characters too. Turns out the steps of leadershit can smear far and wide, another reason why this wiki has been a most curious place.

So, it seems that I am in this for the long haul (if that even needs to be stated at this point…). I don’t imagine that I would have some grand farewell speech should the time ever really come for me to depart. It is the journey and not the destination that is significant. If the wiki ever were to be completed, which, by the way, I would say is still a feasible objective, I would probably stick around for the sake of it. For me to part would mean that some truly transformative events have taken place in real life. A lack of time is a lie. There’s always time for things if you make the time. Losing that sense of investment, well, as unlikely as that feels now, anything can happen. But we need not fixate. Live in the now and make the most of it, that’s a better way to play your cards.

I could carry on in a most elaborate way just to show off my sophisticated English, but there will always be more time for that haha. I thank everyone who has participated on the wiki since 2014, because really, that is the reason why I have been here at all.