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I’ve been hiding out

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Soooo, regardless if you guys remember me or not, I’m going to make a post so you all don’t think I disappeared on you.

Life has been, in a word, hectic. Last quarter was pretty stressful. Got in all of my classes except for anatomy *shakes fist*

Spring break was last week. Didn’t really get to do anything except go home to visit my parents and some old friends. Almost went to *undisclosed city* to visit Malus, but, alas, I didn’t have the time or money to do so. Sorry Malus, I still love you ;_;

For all of those who are wondering, I don’t intend to return to the bakabt staff. Life is busy enough as it is, so I simply don’t have the time to keep you guys from trolling each other to oblivion. tl;dr version: life is calling

Anyways, my next class is starting. So I’m glad I had this opportunity to tell you how I’m doing.

Do you want to save before you quit?

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[Dorama]
Waaahhhhh. What a dramatic month this has been. Anyway, I hope you’re all enjoying the new site (although little has changed apart from the array of errors that many of you have encountered). We hope to be resuming normal services shortly so don’t fret ^^

[Site]
I’ve received several PMs asking why donations are closed. It says why in the announcements and the donation page, but I’ll explain here anyway. When a sufficient amount of donations to pay the server bill and any miscallaneous costs associated with keeping the site afloat is met, then donations are closed until the next server bill is payed. This is illustrated on a chart that is linked on the donation page. The site admins wanted to stress transparency in regards to donations, so don’t worry about your donations disappearing on you =]

[Life]
As some of you may know, I graduated from high school a few weeks ago and I’ve just turned 18. I’m going to [insert undisclosed university here] next year, but I’m still taking summer classes at the local community college. Anatomy + Japanese.

Anyways, I’m out of time. Bye~

Look + Feel

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It’s almost one in the morning, so I decided to post something for a change.

As many of you know, we do have a wiki and an FAQ to handle many of the questions that our users have as well as a forum section to deal with more detailed issues. Many people seem to get along just fine and find answers with very little effort.

But for some, there seems to be a deficiency in two key areas. Reading and Understanding.

Reading

As I said before, the wiki is a good resource for finding answers to many common problems. For some strange outlandish reason, certain people find it extremely difficult to read the help sections, or use the search function for that matter. Is it really that difficult to find answers? We get many requests per day to answer questions that are clearly and thoughtfully answered in the FAQ. Handling these requests are fairly annoying, and sometimes I feel the urge to not answer at all just to spite them for not reading the FAQ. But alas, ethics drive me to answer anyway (the tone of my response, however, depends mostly on my status at that moment).

Understanding

One of the major reasons I don’t handle offers as much as I used to is that it was simply too much trouble to chase after users to have them fix their torrents. When asked if they had read the upload guidelines, nearly everyone replies “Yes, I have!” Most of the time, common sense tells me “No, you haven’t” or “Do you understand it?” Understanding things and using logic is how the world works. Sometimes I wonder how these people get along without screwing up.

I wish I could say more but now it’s time for me to go. Bye~~