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       #Post#: 1213--------------------------------------------------
       Happy 1000 posts, Facediary!
       By: Horses4Life Date: May 24, 2018, 1:01 am
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       Hello, Facediary!
       Congratulations on 1000 posts! Because of us hitting this
       milestone, I have decided to go over flashbacks of the memories
       we have made as a community, first off, let's go right to the
       start of the Community.
       Start of a Community
       Facediary was created on wix.com, a simple and free website
       host, thanks to the original owner: purplewolves, it took a few
       weeks of advertisement to get the first few users on: Octopuppy
       and Liquidatrous. Then a few days later, Bluestar2 and many
       others joined. It was the start of a community, at first,
       everything was simple and easy. Purplewolves hosted her first
       staff applications and as they went live her and Octopuppy found
       themselves deciding out of the maturity of users who they would
       pick. The first staff to be appointed by this system was
       Liqudatrous.
       FPS
       Later on, new staff were appointed: Bluestar2, and Sealdog,
       Sealdog decided that it was time for acknowledgement to their
       users, he announced that they were accepting Applications to be
       a Front Page Suggester, where a user of Facediary would be
       chosen to pick out blog posts and forum posts within their
       requirements to be on the front page. A list of FPS’s inculds:
       Sparklilly, Sealdog, and, Bumblebee. This system was however
       deemed unsuccessful and deleted afew months later, Facediary
       apologized to the future FPS’s
       Facediary Headquarters
       Once Facediary grew, purplewolves decided that her staff needed
       to be paid for their contributions to Facediary, she released
       new staff applications in a job section where you could apply
       for a full paying job, where you would work at the Headquarters.
       Semi-Moderators, Chat Moderators, and, Community Leaders
       Bluestar2 having been given the rights to the website as the new
       Owner decided that it was time that they needed user leadership
       within the community, with the new Chat system that was
       implemented, if you helped in the chat continually you would be
       made a Moderator. They also decided that they needed a
       Semi-Moderator rank where if you helped around Facediary and
       engaged yourself in the community you could be given a
       leadership role as a Semi-Moderator, if these users decided to
       apply for a staff position one day they would have a increased
       chance of becoming one. They also made a Community Leaders
       system, which was like your normal house captain, Facediary
       would hold an election every year for new CL’s and they would
       choose four. All these systems were still a thing when the
       website was deleted early in 2018. Here is a list of all the
       users who were given this opportunity:
       Liqudatrous, Sparklilly, Bumblebee, and a unknown user.
       (Community Leaders for 2018)
       Sparklilly and Bumblebee (Semi-Moderators)
       Sparklilly and Fallenstardust (Chat Moderators)
       The Administrators accounts being hacked
       The Administrators accounts were hacked, including Bluestar2’s
       where they all had to try and get them out of their accounts
       whatever was in there and take a break which then many users
       started helping around the community.
       Rank Changes
       Rank changes were made from the normal Moderator, Background
       Engineer, Administrator, Team Leader, Developer, Helper, and
       Global Moderator, to Artist, Moderator and Administrator this
       also removed the system that the Moderators would be paid for
       their contributions and it was a free uncharged volunteer
       position. This brought in a team of new Artists:
       Fang (Later to be the Owner)
       Littlespark (Later a Moderator)
       Seasonal (Later a Moderator)
       Seaglimmer (Later a Administrator)
       Orcasfangs (Later a Moderator)
       A new wiki and forum
       Sealdog decided it was time for a wiki, she created it but it
       was inactive and taken down once again, and then Fang (A
       Administrator at the time) made the current forum and everyone
       moved to that, and when he was granted Owner rights, and decided
       that the old website would be deleted since no one seemed to be
       using it anymore.
       Selecting staff
       Only afew of the staff from the old website created an account
       on the forum, so, Fang new he needed new staff, he appointed
       Celestialaska and after awhile he noticed activity from a user
       name Queen Luna (LunaLaomi) who made a application to be an
       Artist and was accepted! She was a Artist for a short period of
       time then skipped Moderator to Administrator, at this time the
       staff who had created an account from the old website were:
       Sealdog, Bluestar2, Fang, Seasonal, and, Seaglimmer.
       JustADream
       JustADream was a user who came from the old website to the new
       forum, she was a close friend to Fang, and always helped the
       community, when Facediary was needed a new staff member after
       Seaglimmer retired permanently, Fang promoted her straight to a
       administrator.
       Staff Appreciation
       Many new users to the forum decided to make Staff Appreciation
       threads, to give the staff appreciation that they deserved here
       are some of them:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/general-discussion/staff-appreciation-39/<br
       />| Staff appreciation by TempestFan
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/general-discussion/appreciation-towards-fang/<br
       />| Appreciation towards Fang by JustADream
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/general-discussion/staff-appreciation/<br
       />| Staff appreciation by JustADream
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/general-discussion/art-for-seaglimmer!/<br
       />| Art for Seaglimmer! By Celestialaska
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/general-discussion/lets-show-gratidite-to-our-admins/<br
       />| Lets show gratidute to our admins! By TempestFan
       There was also several users from the old website who
       participated.
       New Staff
       There was several new staff appointed during the next few
       months, Including:
       &#10084;&#65039;~AstarForever~&#10084;&#65039; (Current
       Administrator)
       Brook (Current Moderator)
       Shadowella (Retired Moderator)
       SimplyObsessed (Retired Background Developer)
       StarbornDawn (Retired Moderator)
       TempestFan (Current Administrator)
       Facediary Memes
       In a thread created by Fang, users could make memes releated to
       Facediary, many users particpate in this, and there has been
       many funny memes made:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/general-discussion/facediary-memes/
       Community Counselors
       Since the Staff team decided that all the leadership roles
       should be taken away along with the move, they decided to add it
       back thanks to a suggestion by Bluestar2 in a post on the
       Private board for staff:
       “Do you remember how we had the Community Leaders? Couldn't we
       do that again? (I think that Community Counselors would be a
       better name)
       Community Counselors are not Staff, they have been candidates
       for the permission before. They are expected to withhold the
       rules and reinforce them at any cost. They will be the closet to
       the staff and will always have the opportunity to say what they
       want to say on the Staff's opinions and choices.
       They have authority over the regular members of Facediary and
       will spread news straight from the Staff and will be given a
       extra chance if they decide to apply for helper position.
       Now, I want to talk about the Staff. I think we have way to many
       roles and way to many staff. We need to change some members of
       the staff team to background roles. I do not agree we need the
       old Admin, Artist and Moderator roles though I think all we need
       are Leaders, Curators, and Junior Curators. But unfortunately,
       we will have to remove some staff. My suggestions for that would
       be our two Senior Moderators and JustADream, they are very
       inactive and haven't helped in months.
       I think that the staff need to step back from the community abit
       more, If we go ahead with the idea of Counselors, They need to
       be able to improve the community and not be drained of power
       from the Staff. I think that we only need about 10 staff
       members, since we came back the numbers have sky rocketed. That
       leads me to my next rant. We have a small community, and I think
       we are starting to forget that. A small community doesn't need
       about 30 staff. Nothing really happens anymore i'm afraid.
       Nothing has gone wrong. Also, Luna, I'm throwing you under the
       bus but we need you to be alot more stricter then you are with
       Staff Applications. We need quality.
       SimplyObsessed, I feel like you are the correct person to have
       the final choice on the Staff Applications - After all you lead
       the team.
       Back to the point of the Leader, Curator and Junior Curator
       thing. Everyone will be assigned a role as their rank. You may
       be a Leader and be assigned to being the IT person. like Simply
       you would be a Leader but you would be assigned the team leader
       job. Understand where I'm
       heading?”
       Which was implemented and purplewolves gave the permissions to
       the Junior Curator at the time: AstarForever, who was given the
       opportunity to lead the Community Counselors, The Community
       Counselor election involved 3 Users, only one of which was
       originally chosen: Brook, and then StarbornDawn,
       FaithisintheWater, Jayfeather894 and many others were added on.
       This is when they also decided to have houses and leadership
       roles within them.
       Inactive staff removal
       At the same time as the Community Counselor system was
       implemented, Astar was incharge of picking the most active staff
       to stay as a Moderator, many of the staff were deleted after
       this:
       JustADream, Seasonal, Aquaila, Orcasfangs, Sealdog, Quantiscity,
       and, Octopuppy.
       The staff who continued their position were:
       Fang - Leader
       LunaLaomi - Leader
       Bluestar2 - Leader
       SimplyObsessed - Leader
       TempestFan - Curator
       Clestialaska - Curator
       AstarForever - Curator
       Shadowella - Junior Curator
       Houses
       Houses were then implemented about a month later, which had much
       thought put in behind the scenes, the original idea was
       AstarForever’s but StarbornDawn designed the system and names:
       “At my school, we have an awesome house system that I think we
       could implement into Facediary.
       So, there is four houses (The names can be decided on later) and
       what would happen, if they would all have one House Captian and
       Deputy.
       So, there will be two staff members in each house that oversee
       the houses, though, it is user-lead. You will be put into one of
       the four houses, and will be given the opportunity CC or just a
       normal member to run in the House Captian election, you will
       create a speech and one of the staff members from your house
       will put the speeches from their house up in a house board,
       which will have a poll. The staff members in your house will
       decide out of the most popular choices who will be House Captian
       and Deputy.
       I think that there should be five boards, one for each house,
       and a united one where all the actives will happen. Instead of
       having a post count rank, they will have what house they're in.
       You can only access your houses board.
       There will be house points given out, and at the end of the week
       you will be informed who won.
       Names could include: Winterwater, Moonridge, Sealedge,
       Summerwood”
       An election took place shortly after for House Captains and
       Deputies, at this time, only two houses were implemented:
       Moonridge and Sealedge because there was not enough users to be
       put in 4 houses, the users who were chosen were:
       Sealedge
       House Captain: Brook
       Deputy: Fight for YOU
       And in Moonridge
       House Captain: StarbornDawn
       Deputy: LunarGolden.
       This system was quickly deleted because of inactivity.
       A change in staff ranks
       Fang and Astar decided the ranks Artist, Moderator and
       Administrator were outdated and unnecessary, and they were
       decided upon that they would be changed to Junior Curator,
       Curator, and, Leader, which was later replaced with the current
       system of, just Moderators thanks to a suggestion from
       Jayfeather894 here:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/history/possible-new-staff-ranks/
       Bluestar2’s account getting hacked
       Bluestar2 was an admin at the time this happened, there was an
       open report from a unbehaving user who will remain anonymous,
       who was banned previously by AstarForever, on the moderator
       comments on that particular report, Bluestar2 appears to be
       using abusive and potential harmful language, AstarForever and
       Bluestar2 get into a agrument where Bluestar uses hurtful
       language to back herself up. I have recived permission from
       Bluestar2 and Astar to show you this:
       &#10084;&#65039;~AstarForever~&#10084;&#65039;: Who unmutted
       them to start with? (March 03, 2018, 02:25:54 pm)
       Bluestar2: I did, they deserved a second chance. (March 03,
       2018, 02:31:33 pm)
       &#10084;&#65039;~AstarForever~&#10084;&#65039;: Bluestar, you
       know as well as any of us you have to have approval of everyone
       in the team before taking actions like this. (March 03, 2018,
       02:32:39 pm)
       Bluestar2: Does it look like I care? I am a admin, I can do
       whatever I like! (March 03, 2018, 02:33:35 pm)
       &#10084;&#65039;~AstarForever~&#10084;&#65039;: Bluestar, I
       don't want to give you a warning. You know that you must get
       permission from fellow admins before unmutting or unbanning a
       user. You may be a administrator - But we have our guidelines
       to. (March 03, 2018, 02:35:28 pm)
       Bluestar2: Shut up! I should have every right to do anything
       that I have in my perms, you guideline freak! (March 03, 2018,
       02:36:56 pm)
       &#10084;&#65039;~AstarForever~&#10084;&#65039;: Maybe I am, but
       you have no right to speak that way, especially as a admin. I'm
       going to have to issue you a warning. I'm sorry. (March 03,
       2018, 02:38:57 pm)
       Developer Fang: Bluestar, I hope you have a reasonable
       explanation because this behavior is unacceptable for a
       Administrator. (March 03, 2018, 02:46:59 pm)
       Bluestar2: Snitch! I don't care, you can't tell me what to do,
       you Idiots and Guideline freaks. (March 03, 2018, 02:48:39 pm)
       Developer Fang: Bluestar, this is your last chance before I will
       issue a ban on your account, Your behavior is unacceptable, this
       is not how admins act. Astar did a good thing informing me.
       (March 03, 2018, 02:50:31 pm)
       Bluestar2: Idoit! (March 03, 2018, 02:51:48 pm)
       &#10084;&#65039;~AstarForever~&#10084;&#65039;: I'm sorry
       Bluestar, I am going to issue a ban on your account, (March 03,
       2018, 02:52:47 pm)
       Developer Fang: Thank you Astar. (March 03, 2018, 02:55:15 pm)
       Bluestar2’s account was then banned later on, and Astar posted
       on the Private staff board this:
       “So, if you don't know, earlier today Bluestar2 had to be banned
       because of her random abusive behavior...
       Isn't it abit suspicious? I know for a fact Bluestar would NEVER
       do this, So, I had a chat with her on discord and this is the
       conversation we had:
       Me:
       Hey Bluestar, we had a a little incident with you, (I gave her a
       screen shot) Do you know about it?
       Bluestar:
       What? I would never do that! I am being 100% honest, I seriously
       did not do that.
       Me:
       I can't trust your word just yet we need to undergo a serious
       investigation before we can trust your word, even if it wasn't
       you.
       Bluestar:
       I'm telling you now, it is a hacker. It has happened before to
       me.
       Me:
       I understand, but I can't say I'm sure on anything yet, Sorry
       Bluestar.
       So, I have bait of investigation on who did this, I looked into
       it more, Its strange that yesterday she was giving advice and
       helping and all of a sudden she was acting so bitter. Seriously
       that wouldn't happen? I want your ideas, TempestFan will be a
       replacement for her for now.”
       They came to conclusion that one of the previously banned
       members had hacked into her account to get their account
       unbanned and Bluestar2 was unbanned and given a 1 month
       punishment before they could become a Admin again.
       Fang’s Helpers and Semi-Moderators
       After Houses were deleted permanently, Fang made a new group to
       replace Community Counselors with that was called Fang’s Helpers
       (Or Freqcently known as Fang’s little elves: which was started
       by either FaithisintheWater or &#9733; LunarGolden &#9733; here:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/announcements/results-for-the-best-staff-of-the-year-poll!/<br
       />) and also board Moderators were now a thing where if you help
       ed
       Facediary alot, you could be invited to be a Semi-Moderator
       which meant you were a Moderator on a specific board. Here is a
       list of all the Semi-Moderators or as they were known then
       Helpers:
       Brook, Jayfeather894, and, LunarGolden.
       The Helpers system has since been inactive. The original idea of
       Helpers was by Jayfeather894 here:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/history/a-use-for-the-moderator-on-a-category/.<br
       />
       Warriors Roleplay hits 10 pages!
       A roleplay made by AstarForever about the popular series
       Warriors, hits 10 pages which is to this day the longest/most
       pages a thread/roleplay has ever got to, with more then 10
       characters (15) from the users: Brook, LunarGolden, Fang,
       AstarForever, Jayfeather894, StarbornDawn, Fading Star Light,
       and, TempestFan which is still semi-active here:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/roleplay/warrior-cat-roleplay/<br
       />
       A new way to pick staff
       Thanks to a suggestion by LunarGolden here:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/history/new-way-to-appoint-new-staff/,<br
       />a new way to pick new Moderators was implemented, where if you
       helped the community within the requirements consistiently and
       continusly caught a Administrators eye, you could be invited to
       be a Moderator, this system was quickly removed and changed to
       an election.
       Fang’s April fools prank
       On April fools, Fang decided to create an announcement that
       Facediary was going to be deleted and was acting very distraught
       about it, Fang then gave a link to a video in the gallary that
       he posted that was a troll song and said for them not to give it
       away and play along, some users played along when others gave it
       away:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/history/facediary-is-going-to-be-deleted/.<br
       />
       Facediary Welcoming Committee
       Thanks to a suggestion by Jayfeather894, the FWC (Facediary
       Welcoming Committee) was created, a group of normal users and
       Moderators that have a mission to make sure every new user to
       Facediary gets a warm welcome to the community and to teach them
       the basics, Facediary Welcoming Committee Helpers are invited
       when they are needing new Members and they are asked to help
       with Welcoming some newer users to the forum, if they are
       successful they will become a Member of the Committee.
       The Alpha version released!
       The Alpha version of Facediary had been released! The
       Administrators added many new features which you can see here:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/announcements/new-updates/<br
       />
       A History board
       Thanks to a suggestion by LunarGolden here:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/history/a-'history'-board/,<br
       />the history board has since been a part of Facediary where any
       outdated or implemented/unimplemented or inactive threads will
       be moved to for any users who are curious in the future which
       all the newer Moderators are incharge of it.
       A Forum games board
       Thanks to a suggestion by LunarGolden here:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/suggestions/a-forum-games-board-,<br
       />the Forum games board has been added to Facediary where any
       users are welcome to come and play some games! This has also
       been named the best way to get posts.
       The final Moderator Election that has been said for Several
       years
       Afew days ago, Jayfeather announced that the final Moderator
       Election would take place this month which went back to the way
       they chose Moderators where if you helped around the Community
       you had a chance to be invited, the first moderators to be made
       were:
       &#9729; Dawnspark &#9729; and &#9733; LunarGolden &#9733;, they
       are still looking for Moderators here:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/announcements/congratulations-to-our-new-moderators!/,<br
       />The new Moderators from the previous election were: Bluestar2
       and Fading &#9733; Light!
       &#9729; Dawnspark &#9729;’s Promise
       Today, Dawnspark one of the newest members of the Staff team
       decleared that Jayfeather should watch out, and she swore she
       would do anything she could to beat her in posts, Jayfeather
       took the challenge onboard and told her that they weren’t
       playing soft and that she would make it hard for Dawnspark here:
  HTML https://facediaryforum.createaforum.com/general-discussion/i'm-on-a-mission/.<br
       />
       And that leads to today, our community has reached unimaginable
       heights, because of you, the staff and I thank you to everyone
       who has changed Facediarys future for the better, we would never
       be here without you all!
       Special Thanks to the users who helped me with finding all the
       posts/threads and also all the users who were around at these
       times who told me about them…
       Jayfeather894 (Finding posts and threads.)
       &#9729; Dawnspark &#9729;  (Finding posts and threads.)
       Bluestar2 (Telling me about old times of Facediary)
       Octopuppy (Telling me about old times of Facediary)
       Purplewolves (Telling me about old times of Facediary)
       Developer Fang (Telling me about old times of Facediary and
       hidden details)
       You guys were a massive help!
       Thank you everyone!
       #Post#: 1223--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Happy 1000 posts, Facediary!
       By: Bluestar2 Date: May 24, 2018, 1:12 am
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       Man, I am old. XD
       #Post#: 1256--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Happy 1000 posts, Facediary!
       By: AstarForever Date: May 25, 2018, 3:17 am
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       I've heard that Sparklilly, Bumblebee and Littlespark are coming
       back from an email they all sent me, I hope they stick to their
       word.
       Anyways, It is quite lengthy, but, I love it either way, I think
       this was a great idea and I am grateful to everyone who made
       Facediarys future bright. Thank you making this, Lunar, and you
       yourself have been a massive assets to the community! I hope
       that Facediary continues on like this, but we can't do it alone!
       We need everyones contribution, that's for sure, In six years if
       we made another one I hope to see some amazing changes made by
       some awesome users! If you want to change Facediary's future for
       the better of the community that is a great thing to here, we
       encourage you to start today, a single post a single
       encouragement a single time helping the community makes a big
       difference, if you want to change the future of Facediary, Start
       today, because your voice matters and we would love to here it.
       Thank you :)
       #Post#: 1291--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Happy 1000 posts, Facediary!
       By: Stormph Date: May 25, 2018, 5:11 pm
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       I have, I'm old as well.
       #Post#: 1471--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Happy 1000 posts, Facediary!
       By: ActuallySimple Date: June 21, 2018, 4:16 pm
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       Congratulations, it won't be to long till we reach 2000.
       #Post#: 1518--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Happy 1000 posts, Facediary!
       By: Laskie Date: June 22, 2018, 7:35 pm
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       Awesome work! What are you thinking of doing for 2000? :)
       #Post#: 1581--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Happy 1000 posts, Facediary!
       By: SparksForEternity Date: July 2, 2018, 12:14 am
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       [quote author=&#10084;&#65039;~AstarForever~&#10084;&#65039;
       link=topic=170.msg1256#msg1256 date=1527236245]
       I've heard that Sparklilly, Bumblebee and Littlespark are coming
       back from an email they all sent me, I hope they stick to their
       word.
       Anyways, It is quite lengthy, but, I love it either way, I think
       this was a great idea and I am grateful to everyone who made
       Facediarys future bright. Thank you making this, Lunar, and you
       yourself have been a massive assets to the community! I hope
       that Facediary continues on like this, but we can't do it alone!
       We need everyones contribution, that's for sure, In six years if
       we made another one I hope to see some amazing changes made by
       some awesome users! If you want to change Facediary's future for
       the better of the community that is a great thing to here, we
       encourage you to start today, a single post a single
       encouragement a single time helping the community makes a big
       difference, if you want to change the future of Facediary, Start
       today, because your voice matters and we would love to here it.
       Thank you :)
       [/quote]
       You are awesome! :D
       #Post#: 1640--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Happy 1000 posts, Facediary!
       By: Florius Date: November 3, 2018, 5:29 pm
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       Consider moving to the History Board.
       #Post#: 1672--------------------------------------------------
       Re: Happy 1000 posts, Facediary!
       By: Bizarrema Date: November 14, 2018, 9:16 pm
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       Moved to history board.
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