User blog:Jarrell Tornado/Resignation

Good afternoon.

This is the second time I have spoken to you on this site, where so many decisions have been made that shaped the history of this wiki. The previous time I did so to was discuss with you some matters that I believe affected the interest of this place.

In all the decisions I have made in my brief life on here, I have always tried to do what was best for the wiki. In the past few days, however, it has become evident to me that I no longer have a strong enough base in myself to remain in the rights team that would justify continuing that effort. As long as there was such a base, I felt strongly that it was necessary to see the building process of this wiki through to a higher stance than it is in now, that to do otherwise would be unfaithful to the spirit of that deliberately difficult process and a dangerously destabilizing precedent for the future.

From the discussions I have had with the other site leaders, I have concluded that because of I might not have the support of myself that I would consider necessary to back the very difficult decisions and carry out the duties of this position in the way the interests of the wiki would require.

I have never been a quitter. To leave this post before my term is able make more decisions from such a position with power is abhorrent to every instinct in my body. But as bureaucrat, I must put the interest of the wiki, and more importantly, the adopted site owner, first. This wiki needs a full-time bureaucrat and a active rights team, particularly at this time with issues of interest we all face in one way or another.

To continue to fight through the time ahead in my personal conflicts would almost totally absorb the time and attention of my post; and in a period when my entire focus should be on the issues this site faces, particularly to improve its overall structure which we all agreed is in a rather great need work.

Therefore, I shall resign the bureaucracy effective as of this writing. As was the initial choice of bureaucrat from the other rights team, user 'Steve820' will be elevated to bureaucrat immediately.

As I recall the high hopes for Layten when I began this term, I feel a great sadness that I will not be here in this post working on yours--and his behalf to achieve those hopes in the immediate future. But in turning over direction of the position to admin Steve820, that the leadership of Hypothetical Tornadoes Wiki will be in good hands.