Thread:Vorknkx/@comment-3547390-20150204202730/@comment-3547390-20150519121815

Yeah, sorry about my sudden need to leave the Wikia. That week was stressful, it seemed like everything was falling apart, and I thought to eliminate everything from my life so as to get rid of the stress. Had I been smarter, I would have evaluated how much things were causing me stress and realized that this place also gave me much enjoyment.

With my hiatus, I never really meant anything. The biggest reason I didn't come back was that I wanted to get whatever benefits of getting a hiatus I could get. I was figuring my stress was just due to early withdrawal and that I needed to drag it out a bit so that the benefits would be more visible. Of course, the benefits never really showed themselves, I just realized that I was suddenly doing nothing productive and feeling rather miserable as I lost all communication with the people I enjoyed talking to.

I am still not sure the hiatus was beneficial. Most days I just thought about the Wikia and felt miserable for not coming back, yet I continued to keep trying simply because I was hoping to prevent the burnout and be well rested. I am not sure either of those happened. One of my smartest moves was reinstalling Skype (I got rid of everything in a fit of rage) and talking to Seth. He has been a great help through this, advising me bit by bit to get me to sort out my stress. The reason I am back today is because he advised it after I ranted about missing the Wikia for probably the hundredth time and told him something similar to what I said above.

As for my number of edits, that has never mattered to me. Actually, the edit count goes up every time we post, so that basically means by talking and not doing any editing we are still boosting up our numbers. Also add to the fact that I have redone pages numerous times, changing some subtle detail which required I fix up over 250 pages at a minimum. My edit number is not a score, though I do admit I have done things here and been a contributor for years. I am still glad I got rid of badges, my recent edits probably would have gotten me some of the Lucky Badges for a few hundred points as well as a bunch of "Edits". It is much better when we are rewarded not by numbers or badges, but by the work that has gone into the site and the results that have come out of it.

Raadec, you were onto something when you said that asking about me playing Thief sent me over the edge. The last few weeks had been me basically receiving messages from everyone besides Vorknkx asking about me playing such and such, with my response being that all will be in good time but that I am trying to follow a certain schedule. Nothing you said in particular caused me to have my hiatus, I just wanted to get rid of the pressure while thinking about other issues with other people. Le Rottweiler helped me through that as well, showing me where my stress was strongest and what actually needed changing. None of the questions here would have been of any concern had it not been for all the other problems, so you need not blame yourself.

It will be a long eventually for SOA (one of the questions I was previously asked) and that is basically the closest thing anybody has asked me about. As for a particular order of what I am doing, I am not sure, I give myself freedom to work on anything in 1996 since dates seem pretty ambiguous (even the dates on the Wikia could possibly be incorrect, though they are a good guide instead of leaving everything as 1996).

By the time I make it anywhere anybody wants me to be, I can imagine a bunch of other people already doing various things. I will fix up whatever messes, add videos, and do whatever is needed at that time. Right now they are basically unofficial ports to me, whereby it is up to other people to maintain them and keep them up to date with whatever changes I may make.

Heh, the biggest problem with redirects is that they don't really show up anymore in autofill. Unless you happen to know what the redirect is, nobody else could see it beyond seeing the actual page when typing in the name. With redirects, I am pretty apathetic, I just try to do them enough so that things are easy to navigate. There could be a redirect for the Slipgate Complex as "My Favite Levul" and I probably wouldn't notice or care unless the search feature started causing it to get out of hand. I am not a big fan of the search feature's current setup anyway, especially as it lists things in the order of creation instead of alphabetical order.

The QII infobox sounds exactly like it should, know my infobox was actually just a recoloring and modification (based on content and whatnot) of a template used for the Characters of Q4.

Oh, by the way, Wikia has decided to celebrate my return by ruining the look of the Wiki! Massive sizes, cramped space, the message pages in particular look absolutely horrible! Why does Wikia strive to ruin their websites?!?