What are your PC goals?
I don't really have any goals... to quit PC one day?.... I guess?.... XD
How have your PC goals changed over the years? Have you succeeded in reaching any of them?
In the past yea I had a few goals, some were out of my reach going by the normal path.
~ To become a PC Moderator
After I got into the forum, got around, and got well known what I wanted was to be one of them Mods. People respected me, and I stood out among the members, but I wanted to be a Mod. I didn't care what forum they gave me, I didn't care if it was some small unknown spot, I didn't care if I had to share it with other Mods... I just wanted to be a Mod. And in June of 2003 there was a mass Modding going on, they were filling in the forums that were left by people who left PC and went to PE2K. And after seeing some other people get Modded (Erica/Lightning being one of them people) I was kind of sad. I mean I was happy for them people but I wanted to be one of them people. And then a day after the first Moddings started I got a PM... it said "The staff finally had a vote and the only thing left to do (I think) before you are a moderator is for you to accept the position.", think I said no? XD
As for wanting to be an S-Mod... I never had a chance to think about being an S-Mod, still in shock of being a Mod Erica and I were asked to be S-Mods. 2 or 3 weeks after being handed the keys to our little forums we were handed the keys to all the forums on PC.
~ To become an Admin
After being an S-Mod for a few years I set my goals higher... I wanted to be an Admin. But back then the one and only way to be an Administrator was to have a big Pokemon site, and join PC as a Community Site. Well that wasn't happening, but something else happened. Another S-Mod (someone who was Modded the same time as Erica and myself) got a promotion to the rank of Administrator, I was shocked, blown away, and a big "WTF?". They said that this would be the only time it'd happen. So after me (and maybe some others) complaining this person was given her own rank, she called it "Praetor". This rank was a rank with a green name and was an "assistant" to the Administrators (maybe this rank is still around XD). After a short amount of time I also made the cut for this new rank (surprisingly I was promoted like a week or two after my account got hacked, yea someone wasn't thinking when they signed off on my promotion XD). I was happy... I'm now in a rank where for years that was not obtainable, S-Mods was as high as people went when it came to promotions.
~ To be on the same level as the "Administrators"
Any way you sliced it... this Praetor group was not on the same level as the normal Admins. Yea we had Admin powers, yea we had bold/italic names, but their votes still counted for more votes or ours only counted for like half. People would say "You're not real Admins" (the only two Praetors at the time were Jake/Hiroshi Sotomura and myself). So after I got into a fight with some of the members Steve renamed my group (Jake and I had different usergroups, he wanted some puke green color for his name and I wanted red, so we had two groups), the new name was "Staff Administrator". I think he renamed it just to shut the members up, but I took the name and ran with it. I said "See, I have "Admin" in my name I'm the same level as you guys, my vote should count just as much". It still took a long long time for us to be seen as "equals" when it came to Admins. I think by the time they saw us as such there were 3 other Staff Admins besides myself, but in the end it all worked out. (And yes... these days the AA group has the same voting numbers as any of the SAs. In fact all the Staff ranks are equal when it comes to votes, 1 vote per person, no more halves, or +2)
I'm sure I've had other goals on PC, maybe wanting to get 10,000 posts, and then 20,000 posts. Maybe wanting to do this or that. But I think them 3 goals is what I want remembered as goals of mine. More so the two Admin goals, because if I left PC today... 5 years from now think anyone is going to say "Arcanine was the first Staff Admin"? Think anyone is going to care about my 20K postcount? Think anyone is going to remember me? And if you say "Yea, people will remember you." then who was that "first Praetor" that I talked about? Chances are... you can't answer that (yea there's a few still around that was around back then... Erica, MCD, Tommy, and a few others who posted in this thread might be able to answer it). She left PC 5 or 6 years ago. You could ask the S-Mods and I'd be willing to bet at least half couldn't answer it. Still think I'll be remembered? XD
I think most people want to leave something of themselves if it's a place they care about. A piece that maybe someday down the line someone might find and say "Who was this?". I might not be remembered but if I left and came back after 5 years I'd be willing to bet that I could say "Hey... that's still there. That's the way it is today because of a goal I had way back when".