User blog:Jiskran/Stepping down

I feel some context is in order, otherwise it may seem this is a single issue, and, as such, blown vastly out of proportion. I have stepped down as Admin for a variety of reasons, the last of which was what I felt to be encroaching, targetted and petty behavior on the part of a fellow Admin. However, in the wider lens of DARP, there were a number of other major contributors, like the lack of trust shown in CK's impartiality, and the general 'we're going to enforce the rules on everyone' atmosphere that appears, to me, to be gaining traction. I joined DARP with no plans to RP, as anyone who reads my first blog here or is decrepit enough in wiki terms to recall will know. However, many very kind souls, and I include such as Echo very much in this category despite our later differences, urged me to get more personally 'hands-on', and the result was Steve Shunpike. Steve made friends with Caly, and Belle and I had some phenomenal fun trying to negotiate their pit-fulled road to romance. Eleanor Washington (with her werewolf twin) was adopted so that Ivy and I had cause to connect, followed, and by this point my recollection is iffy, by Arcturus Rookou as my first foray into Pure-Blood thinking. Einar Faris was originally intended as a 'make up the numbers and be a weirdo' candidate for Minister, and that went much as the recent re-run in real life. He and Charlie Lynch's friendship was one of the most spontaneous, organic developments I've known here, thanks to Zan.

What I'm trying to say is, it's been a tremendous joy, but it maybe also set the bar rather high from the start, in terms of how much I expected to get in return for my input. As the wiki grows and the membership rolls around, it is appropriate there should be changes, and the fact that I'm not happy with all of them is, quite honestly, neither here nor there. Each of us has to look at the balance and draw our own conclusion. Mine, for the time being, is that someone else can better serve the communal needs who doesn't have my particular baggage and expectations. I hope and trust I will get to rediscover all the positive reasons I stuck around this place after I literally stumbled across Gruff's wand entry on the Laurel (another old-timey reference, please feel free to ignore :D ), and other people can bring fresh eyes, voice and talents to Ollivander, who's probably been in my keeping rather too long anyway. :)