"Thanks to everyone who has made webDip my favorite site on the Internet."

He means me.

Congratulations on an outstanding career as an admin, and good luck your other things! I believe I can speak for the whole mod team in saying we will miss your cool head and strong work ethic (read: we are bummed that we can't slack and then rely on you).

Peace

Thanks for all the work you have done and all the shit you have had to put up with.

Thanks for your hard work. It Is greatly appreciated!
Don't forget to write.

Have a good retirement, Abge!

Thanks for what you've done for this community.

Thank you Abge! You make a great mod! What will the anti-crime mod unit do without all your skill?

But now, you will have to hire a new mod... :D

Thank you for all that you've given to this community, abgemacht.

Best of luck in all your future endeavors!

Thank you for all your hard work, abge. I'm glad you'll be sticking around.

It sure as fuck won't be you, DiploOmnitard.

:-)

That's a shame, abgemacht - but, like the others have said, glad you'll be sticking around to contribute! Enjoy your retirement!

Thanks all. Although, it is a bit unclear if the +1's are from people who have been happy with what I've done, or people who are glad I'm leaving. : )

Thanks for all you've done Abge, you've done a great job.

Awwww....I'm actually sad to hear this. I've had my run-ins with abgetard (jk), but overall I think he was a reasonable and even handed Admin....especially when he was bending over Draug and giving it to him lube-free. THAT was especially fun to watch. (Still waitng for that DNS attack....)

On a personal note -- thanks Abge for all the times you have smacked me down and called me an ass when I needed to be called out...believe it or not, this community has helped me - and you were definitely a strong voice, along with Draug.

Thanks ab, for all your hard work, and for the record, I finally did donate that $20 to Kestas in honor of your webDip Bday a few months back!

Thanks for serving abge!

Okay so in my new capacity as The Abgemacht, I would like to welcome you all to my shoppe of horrors.

"The Abgemacht"....hmmm....we should try to get a Constitutional amendment passed that the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court be henceforth and forevermore be called "The Abgemacht". And the President shall be renamed "The Kestas"

I want to assure everyone that I will be keeping all my campaign promises (to Cthulhu), including:

--ban Kestas
--ban Abgemacht
--ban MadMarx
--create 1000 multi accounts for sale to members, $1 for each additional account up to five accounts, the sixth and seventh are $10/acct (pm me for routing no.)
--shipment of one (1) cask of unpretentious wine to the Player of the Month, each month, criteria are confidential and wine will be purchased using revenue from the sale of additional accounts
--weekly reposts of all of obiwanobiwan's old "This time on Philosophy Weekly"s with commentary from me and the Player of the Month
--daily drunken webcam games, of which I will take part in 50% (note: you are contractually obliged to let me win 75% of my games)
--Daily advice column from yours truly to Conservative Man and his ilk
--pitirre is permanently awarded Best Player of the Year 2007 for each year. Do not be deceived by the name. It is not actually for 2007. It is just part of the name of the award. You can win Best Player of the Year 2007 any year, such as "Best Player of the Year 2007 2011!!" Except no you can't win it, because pitirre is permanent winner
--dissent is not tolerated, except from President Eden, who is allowed to obliquely dissent in the form of gifs and jpegs and only gifs and jpegs

Welcome to Webdiplomacy 2.0!!!

Your new Abgemacht,
Thucydides
(undersigned: Cthulhu)

LOL!
Sad to see you retire Abge, i haven't really talked to you since I've been here, but you seemed like a good mod.

Lol thucy...well spoken.

Thanks Abge for all your hard work and efforts.

Sorry, Thucy... but guess who the big papa bear is without Abge?? I'll be accepting bribes for the next week....

Seriously, though, it is sad to see Abge go. He was my mentor when I became a mod, then my equal (though I still considered him my mentor) when I became an admin. We had a great dynamic between my relaxed stance and his stricter stance that made for very even rulings.

For those asking, yes, there is a new admin to help me out (which I'll announce in another thread if it hasn't already been done), and we'll be adding another mod, but that is for another thread.

The good news about this is that Abge will still be a player, so we don't have to worry about him leaving us entirely, but I will be checking him for multi and meta flags routinely... ;)

Good work on the site abge. It is appreciated. I'm glad you are sticking around though, your contributions on the forum and in the game would have been missed.

"but I will be checking him for multi and meta flags routinely..."

Challenge accepted.

Thank you abgemacht for all the work.

Pics or it didn't happen. It's like Danny Glover's I'm too old for this shit.

@FK...I suspect user ID 4946 of being a multi who is meta gaming by using,cut and paste technology and then delivering the result to his other account via carrier pigeon. Who do i report this to..you or thucy?

abge, you never did anything I considered really really stupid, and even allowed a bit of leeway at appropriate times.

Good job.

Also, abgemacht played a huge role (along with Crazyter and others) in making the WebDip Boston Face to Face tournament happen last summer. In my opinion, that's one of the coolest things that has happened as a result of this online community.

Thank you for your service to our community Abgemacht. You earned every penny you weren't paid, and then some.

All the time you put in is much appreciated abge, glad to hear you'll be sticking around the site.

@fk, so who's the new admin?

yeah fk hurry up and announce it i dont know how much longer i can hold it in