Battlizer Mode...Power Down

[Fury Diamond]

MegaBlue is correct in regards to the little one.

The event that occurred during Licensing Expo is very much related but nothing that I want to talk about. Let's just say that it was a bad week that put my life into perspective.

[PR Lover]

Thank you Fury Diamond. Good luck in all you do in the future

[Rheannan]

Good luck with everything you do in the future, Fury Diamond. You've created a wonderful forum with this site. It's one of the friendliest forums I've been to. :)

[Mars Denbrey]

Thanks for your hard work!

[Barracuda]

Thank you Fury Diamond for everything. This is the first board I joined and actually stayed with. Out of all the boards THIS board was the one that stayed organized. You will be missed.

[alpona]

all I wanna say is I am very glad for being a member in this board.

[blackdinoranger5]

I understand why you are leaving and you have no reason to explain. We all have our reasons for doing what we do. Either way mesh you will be missed. I am glad you will still be around in some form though, and you chose good successors. Either way keep in touch, and thank you for the work you did and continue to do it doesn't go unnoticed. Take care my friend.

[Deker]

Today, I am publically announcing my demotion as the RangerCrew Admin and Battlizer Mod. I had originally planned on making the announcement on RangerCrew's 5th birthday (in exactly two weeks), but decided to do it today for personal reasons.


Fandom Retirement
As some of you know, I returned back to the online fandom in 2006 with Mystic Points (now called RangerCrew Media). For the past 6 years, I have worked on countless number of Power Rangers season portals, Official / Fan Cast Sites, and this board. As a web developer and a fan, I have had a blast providing the content for the fans. I have no regrets in my work in the fandom because it has been rewarding for my personal experience. Power Rangers has greatly affected my life because the franchise has made me into a strong web and software developer. I'm not a toy collector or a fan artist, so making websites is my way of giving back to the show.

I am the kind of guy who does everything on his own. All of my sites (Star Points and RangerCrew Media) were designed, developed, and financed by me. If I can't do it on my own, then I have no business running it. This is why I take great pride in all of my work. I've seen sites and blogs, which are based on colloborated works from a group of fans. I have full respect for that workflow, but it's not my style. This board was the first time when I had to break that logic. RangerCrew (formerly StarPoints RangerCast / SPRC) is the first board that I have built from scratch. I had amazing help from the mod team as well as inspired help by Chad (Mesogog / PRE). Chad taught me a lot in the first few years as well as brought several members to this board. The board was intended to promote the cast members but rapidly grew into a Power Rangers and Toku board. For the past two years, we have provided exclusive content and news from our sources. I am very proud on how much this board has grown in the past 5 years. Don't be fooled by the 3,500+ member count on the home page. The forum database states that the last registration id is 9601. This means that 9,600+ members have joined RangerCrew in the past 5 years. We pruned a large number of inactive users to free up database resources. RangerCrew doesn't need to showcase a large number of fans nor does it have a goal to become a large board. The board is here to promote Power Rangers in a fun and friendly way. I had a lot of help from our awesome mod team. They have worked hard to provide a fantastic fan service for the RangerCrew members.

A recent event has reminded me that the fandom work has affected my health, finances, and personal life. I am too emotionally attached to the fandom and RangerCrew. I find myself on this board for over 12 hours daily in addition to the daily site work. As mentioned before, I have no regrets for the fandom work. I have decided that I will demote myself as a RangerCrew mod and retire from the fandom after Power Rangers Megaforce Season 1. I may decide to work on Megaforce Season 2, but no promises at this moment. As long as I am in the fandom, I will promote Power Rangers and RangerCrew to the best of my abilities. My reasons for the the retirement are for personal reasons, but I will tell you that a major life event occurred while I was attending the Licensing Expo. Despite what happened that week, I don't regret attending the event to provide the latest Power Rangers Megaforce information to the fandom. I am very thankful for the mod team for being there during this rough week.

For the past year, I have been preparing for my fandom retirement with the work of a personal fandom project. I was hoping to make the project announcement at Power Morphicon, but I am far from completion. I may announce the fandom project in January if I make further progress. The purpose of this fandom project was to aggregate all of my years of effort into a single archived media. The project is a multi-year project which may end up turning into a personal portfolio project that fans may be interested in.

I will promote Power Rangers 20th Anniversary via RangerCrew, Samurai Cast site, and the upcoming Megaforce site. I will now have more free time to focus on those sites as well as become an active RangerCrew Blogger.


RangerCrew Future
A few years ago, Power Rangers: R.P.M. aired the final episodes and the fandom asked about the future of the boards. RangerCrew members showed a lot of support for this board, so I decided that the board will continue to run as long as the mod team is willing to manage the board. You may have noticed the recent mod promotions in the past months. We have prepared for this day with weeks of transition training with the mod team.


O92 will be the new head of RangerCrew forum. For those of you who don't know O92, he is one of the co-founders of the board and the first RangerCrew mod. O92 has proved to be a strong leader and the ideal candidate to represent RangerCrew. Mr. CD will be his #2 on the board and the leader of all of the Green and Purple Mods. I am very confident that the board is in great hands with O92 and CD in charge. RangerCrew has a fun and interactive mod team. If you have any issues on the board, feel free to report them to a mod. If you have any issues with a mod, feel free to report them to CD or O92. There will be no major change in RangerCrew. The same rules will continue to apply.

Starting today, I will demote myself as a RangerCrew member. I will continue to finance RangerCrew (domain, web hosting, and software) as well as provide forum support with vBulletin updates. RangerCrew Facebook, Twitter, and Blog will be managed by me. I will work with the RangerCrew team to continue to promote RangerCrew on my websites as well as the social media platforms. RangerCrew has a deep place in my heart. As long as I am in the fandom, I will be an active RangerCrew member. I will only post exclusive news from my sources to RangerCrew forum.


Special Thanks
I want to personally thank all of our active members for your amazing support over the past years. The forum is nothing without our loyal members. I want to also thank the veteran fandom members who have graciously made RangerCrew their fandom home. My final thanks goes to the mod team, who has invested so much of their time for providing the fan service.

Power Morphicon
O92 and I will be working together to promoting the latest news from Power Morphicon. Stay tuned on RangerCrew, RangerCrew Blog, and RangerCrew Twitter. If you are attending Power Morphicon, I will be hosting a small RangerCrew hangout on Friday evening. Feel free to post in this thread if you are interested in the mini-event: http://www.rangercrew.com/forum/show...ew-at-PMC-2012.

I will continue to be a RangerCrew, Power Force, and fandom member through the 20th anniversary.

Fury Diamond Battlizer Mode...Power Down!

Yep. It's been quite the journey that's for sure. I remember when you came to me while I was running PRE. I was honored then, and I'm still honored now to have been a part of it all. I always have, and always will support Rangercrew and you. Many don't realize the role I played behind the scenes even after I closed PRE. I remember when you were considering closing the forum because it wasn't active (partially because I think PRE was cannibalizing it.) I helped talk you out of it. Me shutting down PRE zero doubt helped the forum as I helped push people here afterwards. And many of PRE's original members still reside here. I was also one of the RangerCrew original mods while I was running PRE. Eventually I saw it as a conflict of interest and in the best interests of the forum, and felt it would be best for RC if I stepped down. (For the non-believers, look at what member number I am. Believe it or not, I'm one of the originals and proud of it!) Talk about a trip down memory lane!

When I shut PRE down, I wanted to give Umesh and RC the PRE database that had over 10,000 members, literally hundreds of thousands of posts and threads and content to use as he wished. That fell through due to some member concerns. But that is how much I trusted and believed in Umesh and RC. NO ONE has or was ever made that offer since. EVER.

It never mattered how many different PR forums I ran, their names, or what my intentions with them. I've always stood behind you and Rangercrew. I always tried helping promote the forum. And even after I left the fandom I still trolled (and obviously still do) Rangercrew. RC is the ONLY one I have trolled since. Why? Call it a habit I enjoy.

All of us, me included, owe you a lot for the support and dedication you gave and are still giving to the fandom over the years. But what's most important is you and your personal life. And if it's starting to affect your health and personal life, by all means take care of that first and foremost. Believe me when I say, I totally understand where you are coming from. Been down that road.

Umesh helped me a lot too over the years. And while I have never personally met him offline I will always consider him a good friend and someone I know I can trust and support. While I helped originally guide RC's growth, and tried to help RC avoid the pitfalls that occurred with PRE (even long after PRE was gone), Umesh and his staff and members ultimately helped get it to where it is today and all should be proud of that. No, be VERY proud of that.

Fury Diamond (Umesh), thank you. Not just for believing in me but for believing in the fandom and always trying to be the voice of reason and by showing such incredible dedication to PR and the fandom.

Thank you, from the bottom of my heart. Thank you for everything you have done for me, the fandom and PR. You are one of the true PR fandom legends who has left their mark in a big way. (I'm just curious how I missed this thread after all this time of trolling. I'm losing it man. lol)

Power down.