{"id":317,"date":"2007-06-08T04:33:57","date_gmt":"2007-06-08T04:33:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntucat.wordpress.com\/2007\/06\/08\/im-retiring-from-the-forums-for-the-near-future\/"},"modified":"2010-02-03T18:36:46","modified_gmt":"2010-02-03T22:36:46","slug":"im-retiring-from-the-forums-for-the-near-future","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/im-retiring-from-the-forums-for-the-near-future\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m retiring from the forums for the near future"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2005, I had no idea that I would be a full-time Linux user. I had no idea I would be a regular member (God forbid a <i>moderator<\/i>) of a Linux forum. I had no idea part of my Psychocats website would be dedicated to Linux tutorials. <\/p>\n<p> Now it&#8217;s June 2007, and I already feel (two years later) that it&#8217;s time to retire from the Ubuntu Forums. I&#8217;ve put in two short terms as a forum moderator. I&#8217;ve posted 25,000 posts. I&#8217;ve tried my best to help new users and to provide realistic (not exaggerated) advocacy and PR for Ubuntu. <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ve encountered wonderful human beings&mdash;intelligent and giving human beings who live up to and beyond the Ubuntu motto of &#8220;Humanity toward others.&#8221; That community&#8217;s giving spirit and openness is inspiring. Nevertheless, it&#8217;s a chapter I&#8217;m closing right now. <\/p>\n<p> I&#8217;ll still keep using Ubuntu. I&#8217;ll still upkeep Psychocats. I&#8217;ll keep blogging. But I&#8217;m on indefinite break from the forums.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In March 2005, I had no idea that I would be a full-time Linux user. I had no idea I would be a regular member (God forbid a moderator) of a Linux forum. I had no idea part of my Psychocats website would be dedicated to Linux tutorials. Now it&#8217;s June 2007, and I already&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/im-retiring-from-the-forums-for-the-near-future\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">I&#8217;m retiring from the forums for the near future<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-317","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ubuntu","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=317"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1901,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/317\/revisions\/1901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=317"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=317"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.psychocats.net\/ubuntucat\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=317"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}