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Subject: Lets find the missings moderators. (Together?)

Let me start of saying the old school mods who worked here got work done that I'm sorry the current ones are not. Is it a lack of staff members, or a lack of attitude? Where did Ninja on Fire (Jeremiah), SketchFactor, dmb, and GameJunkieJim. I didn't know anyone but Ninja. I was a more popular Optimatch forum viewer and thats where Ninja spent his hours. I could go into explanation about him. And I think I will.

All points in this topic posted by myself will be proved with a topic or reply.

Ninja's backround
Well.. I have a hypothesis. Back in the day of Halo 2, the Optimatch Forum was more popular than the Halo 2 forum. A more popular moderator for Bungie back then was Ninja on Fire (Jeremiah). He had a attitude to post to all important and productive topics. I'm not dissing any other mods, since they have more important stuff like working on Halo. My first request is here. Could we have more mods? These days mods close and lock topics without replying why. I understand they are tired of reading the same topics, but come on. My second request is here. Why can we post so fast? Please make an auto spam protector. My topic makes the 2nd page in under 2 new topics, since the 10 sticked topics. Now let me talk about those. The custom game finder made by whoever is garbage. You need to add the game yourself, it isn't directly from xbox.com stats, or Bungie.net stats and no one adds them. I understand mods try to get messages across by stating the point in the subject like (EX-I Can has Recon!? NO!) We understand from the 100's of replys you made, but still people get banned. The more topics you sticky the faster other topics leave the page. Only have like 2 or 3 topics sticked. If you want the podcast questions sticked, forget about it. A real topic that needs to be stickied will stay on the top, due to replys to it, But for all those topics you stickied only 17 topics make the first page.

Unlike most forums most of those topics are new and have no replys. (soon to be this one) Which relates back to my point of creating spam filter. About 2 days ago a member created 5 topics all about how to record videos on your computer from Halo 3. He bumped all of them, till he disappeared.
Back to Ninja on Fire....He was a mod for the new comers here. He posted alot in the Optimatch forum, he one day announced he was going on vacation (Hawaii I think) For 1 month around no updates to Halo 2 came and thats when the complaining of Halo 2 began. Evan Braum created a topic called "Rumble Hardcore" he actually used punctuation and bbcoded his points. Post like that catch moderators attention. Ninja was gone and everyone back then was posting about him. Then one day he posted and everyone was like "uber hax0r 1337 hes back" Sadly, he was just posting from Hawaii. Then he returned in under 1 week. The Rumble Hardcore topic had been stickied and the matchmaking update topic by Ninja was posted saying, "(finding topic) Then there was the respected user Lucky Sniper 07. He made over 15 topics of suggestions for matchmaking in perfect format. He was a respected user in my booklet. I honestly need mod approval to prove this, but I think Ninja was the one who kept the H2 Matchmaking list, in the Halo 2 project section updated. It started out over 200 lines long, but Ninja reduced to around 50, but putting the maps for the specified game type in the same table, allowing skimming to be easier. For any interested in Ninja on Fire, he still plays Halo 3 his profile is Here Another quick thing, why can't people hyper link their links. Nothing makes me more mad, then having to copy n paste a link to watch a montage video. Its quite simply how, its below us and it follows bbcode. Also wheres Shishka?

This thread mainly was pointed towards Ninja since thats were the problem started. Its like a simply science question. Why do pines in YellowStone die? Because the wolves 50 years ago were killed, not because of pollution (even though that takes a toll) it all starts with something. If you relate that to Halo 3, that community wouldn't spam and complain as much if Ninja was here, since he replied to topics, told people what he did wrong etc. Thats the reason I'm 100% sure. Its not because the game is flawed, since Halo 2 was too, its because we don't have someone to control it, like Ninja. The optimatch forum was always more popular than the Halo 2 forum, why did we move out of it. Topics move pretty slow on that forum. I'll donate 50 bucks Ninja to you coming back. I'm serious. If it comes open up a paypal donate thing, and I'll donate.

Heres some posts by him, to learn about him

November 2006 Halo 2 update It took 4 replies till Ninja replied back. What a good
August 2006 Halo 2 update
Team Carnage added, Team swat removed

Peaches
//thank you

Our Clues

When did this all happen?

I honestly don't know I noticed it, right when Bungie updated to this new forum setup. Thats when the mass mods left.
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His Name
His name from this Bungie H2 Team list is as followed

TEAM BUNGIE
Joseph "New001" Tung
Mat "Shunji" Noguchi
Jeremiah "Ninja 0n Fire" Pieschl
Chad "Shishka" Armstrong
Luke "Abe Froman" Timmins
Brian "Ske7ch" Jarrard

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Ninja on Fire said:
I learned a lot from Halo 2, but I took it all with me when I left. ;)

It's a little early to be biting and clawing, I think you can express your concerns without being an ass about it. The MP guys are very intelligent, but they're also very careful... so you're going to have to be patient whether you like it or not. The only thing you can directly influence is if they want to listen to what you're saying, and the best way to prevent that is to come in guns blazing with insults.


He said it right here. He left! We know hes gone, his contract expired so he left.
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Posted by:Ninja on Fire
As Shishka already clarified, I do not work for Certain Affinity. I'm working on a super awesome project with Pete Parsons and Jordan Weisman.

Search Certain Affinity, and its the company that released the Tombstone and Desolation maps to Halo 2.

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His name title is now avius custos

A online search and this comes up

avius - wandering, lost, astray (when referring to a person)
custos - guardian, sentinel, watchman, jailer, spy

So a lost watchman? Lost moderator?
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Whats his name bring up on Google?

This link shows him developing the following games

Halo 3 (2007), Microsoft Game Studios
Halo 2: Multiplayer Map Pack (2005), Microsoft Game Studios
Halo 2 (2004), Microsoft Game Studios
Halo: Combat Evolved (2003), Microsoft Game Studios
MechAssault (2002), Microsoft

Here he is on IMDB, don't know why but he is

His name is here used as the "Special Thanks" for Halo 3.
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So whats that secret project he mentioned
So we cross reference those 3 names and we get

Jeremiah Pieschl .... contract tester: localization team
Jordan Weisman .... chief creative: 4orty2wo, "I Love Bees" promo game (uncredited)
Pete Parsons .... nothing found

So it seems one makes the game as the other tests it?

dead end.
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Posted by: Ninja on Fire
My identity isn't really a secret, my name and even a picture have been posted on Bungie.net before.

To answer the questions of what I do, well - on Bungie.net I gather user feedback for playlists and multiplayer in general. I do other things not related to that though, but for the safety of myself and all of you, that information will remain classified.


This profile has the name "on Fire" but I don't see Ninja as that guy, so dead end

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His comment on xboxlive is "I fyreball, do you?"

I searched that and it looks like a myspace site, that is for his people only. I sent an app to get in, info to come.
He was last on 6 hours ago, so he is still out there.
Heres the fyreball site, if your interested


More to come...too late.

The search is on!

Our goal: Bring him Back!
I will reply quickly to reserve space, because I only have 303 characters...289 left.









  • 11.14.2007 5:40 PM PDT

-reserved-

Also, the topic was written for the Halo 3 Forum, but I decided to post it here, since Its more on topic in this section.

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Ninja on Fire (Jeremiah) is working somewhere else, I doubt he has time to get on the forums.

Ske7ch is busy doing public relations and stuff. He's always busy.

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Sorry, I think I may not have understood everything you were getting at. Jeremiah posted in Optimatch so often because that was part of his job (and he's just awesome like that), but after he left bungie, he doesn't have the inside information to post there like he used to. I doubt he would want to come back, either. His new job is permanent, and that provides much better job security. When you're contracting, you don't know if you'll have a job when you get back from vacation. Also, and I'm not going to presume to say that I actually know him, but I've talked to him a few times, and he seems pretty happy and excited about the new place.

  • 11.14.2007 5:52 PM PDT

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This is a really silly thread.

- Jim's internet isn't working.
- BobBQ is busy getting his guns dirty, cleaning his guns, getting them dirty again, and cleaning them again. Interpret as you will.
- Makaveli is Makeveli. No complaints here.
- Ninja 0n Fire visits the forums quite frequently. Be careful where you step.
- Ske7ch is on the forums very frequently as well. Just because he doesn't post doesn't mean he isn't around.
- Shishka works at Certain Affinity and visits the Bungie.net forums on a semi-frequent basis. Sheesh. Get with the times.

Hilarious how you want to find ninjas. That just doesn't happen. You can't find ninjas.

[Edited on 11.14.2007 5:57 PM PST]

  • 11.14.2007 5:55 PM PDT

Posted by: WolfmanMaverick
You people have just sent my sides into orbit. A bunch of MLG try hards sucking the dick of some supposed pro half the thread hasn't even heard of. Classic.

I love how people want NoF back. When he was here people were screaming for his head. Now that he is gone you all want him back. As for the other peeps they will return in time. Hopefully I can stop by Jim's house on the way to Atlantic City.

  • 11.14.2007 6:11 PM PDT

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Posted by: Achilles1108
I love how people want NoF back. When he was here people were screaming for his head. Now that he is gone you all want him back. As for the other peeps they will return in time. Hopefully I can stop by Jim's house on the way to Atlantic City.


Pictures or you guys didn't make out.

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Hey achilles, if you do see him, tell him I <3 him and he better get his tubes back quick so there's someone to get on UNO with.

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This thread is utterly... well, I shouldn't say retarded... It's utterly silly, like Great Leader said.

I haven't seen Jim post in a while, I <3'd him =[

And evilcam still needs to fix my door.

  • 11.14.2007 6:26 PM PDT

Why did people always complain? I loved Ninja, he was so cool he provided Playlist stats, matchmaking updates in forum posts etc. Ninja if you see this, forget the MLG people who complained to you. You were the best.

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Posted by: iBotPeaches
Why did people always complain? I loved Ninja, he was so cool he provided Playlist stats, matchmaking updates in forum posts etc. Ninja if you see this, forget the MLG people who complained to you. You were the best.
Were? That's an insult.

He is the best. You're the worst.

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Whoa whoa... you completely missed everything.

N0F is still around, he's online all the time actually. But he doesn't work at Bungie anymore. I don't know what he's doing (apart from Fyreball) but I know he isn't the playlist-optimatch guy anymore. I don't think they have a replacement yet.

Also - mods don't work for Bungie. I don't even know where to begin ripping up this post but... you are wrong. We lock threads and ban users because that is our job. Our job is not to babysit or sugarcoat, nor is it to change the website or the game or how things are run. We have no say in anything like playlists or anything.

Next - most mods are busy right now, there are PRIVATE reasons behind each and every absent mod. More mods won't fix playlist issues anyway, if that is even what you were talking about. You were all over the place and, coupled with my fatigue, I can't remember what the hell I am supposed to be telling you other than "No".

As for your whole massive post on N0F; I think his contract ran out and he moved on. Simple as anything.

  • 11.14.2007 6:36 PM PDT

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Posted by: Achilles1108
I love how people want NoF back. When he was here people were screaming for his head. Now that he is gone you all want him back. As for the other peeps they will return in time. Hopefully I can stop by Jim's house on the way to Atlantic City.


yeah I miss him he unlocked an achivement
http://achievements.schrankmonster.de/Achievement.aspx?text=b eing%20missed%20by%20the%20community

  • 11.14.2007 6:37 PM PDT

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Optimatch was Ninja on Fire's lair, which he guarded with his stinky and fiery dragon breath. So if you frequented Optimatch a lot back then it's no surprise you miss him. Fear not, he's still around these parts.

Everyone else covered the other points pretty succinctly but there was one other vibe I got from your post. You do know that most of the Moderators do not work for Bungie, right?

Edit - Oops. I was distracted and took too long to write this. Refer to Pezz's post.

[Edited on 11.14.2007 6:48 PM PST]

  • 11.14.2007 6:46 PM PDT

Sorry Pezz, I thought your worked in the same field as Bungie. I didn't think same building, but I thought since Ninja got all that info, that he had access to it. I made too many assumptions. Thanks for clearing it up. So tan text= mod, yellow text=works at Bungie?

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Hilarious how you want to find ninjas. That just doesn't happen. You can't find ninjas.

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  • 11.14.2007 7:40 PM PDT

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Posted by: Achilles1108
I love how people want NoF back. When he was here people were screaming for his head. Now that he is gone you all want him back. As for the other peeps they will return in time. Hopefully I can stop by Jim's house on the way to Atlantic City.


Pictures or you guys didn't make out.

Pictures? I demand video footage on Youtube.

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So tan text= mod, yellow text=works at Bungie?
It's more of a lovely shade of "salmon" I think. While all gold-texted posters except AdjutantReflex work at Bungie, it's more of a "you just gotta know" kind of thing for the salmon-texted posters. Some, such as stosh, N0F, and THE DON WAN do (or did) work at Bungie, while others, such as the previous posters in this thread and the vast majority of the other salmon-texted posters, do not. Try looking up a moderator on Bungiepedia if you're unsure whether they work at Bungie.

[Edited on 11.14.2007 8:05 PM PST]

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What's this? No mention of Sigma? He had the best purple floatie hippo avatar.

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SPOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOON!

<3's NoF!!! Always have, always will! In fact, I'm considering sending him PMs of love to counteract all the hate PMs he's gotten here. That would take a while though, so I'll do it later...

Pezza showed you the error of your ways, so I don't really need to comment on that.

Searching for Sigma would be a worthy endeavor. I'm very curious as to what he's up to these days, amongst other things. Someone find Sigma please.

I don't know what's happening with GJJ, but I hope we can bask in his glory once again. The sooner the better.

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I don't really have anything of any real value to add to this. All I can do is repeat the standard reason as to why some mods are not around as often as they used to be; real life is a -blam!- sometimes. When commitments or other issues in real life crawl up, it only make sense to put those higher on your list of priorities than moderating. When everything is sorted out, we'll probably see most of them again.

  • 11.14.2007 8:40 PM PDT

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Sigma vanished a long time ago. There's no hope of finding him now, unless he voluntarily came back. But even then, his account was auto-deleted and replaced by some random person, so it would difficult to know if it was really him.

  • 11.14.2007 11:15 PM PDT

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  • 11.15.2007 9:01 AM PDT
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I liked Reiginko. He left shortly after I made an account here though...

I miss impurity's humor, Shishka's badassness, and Toast's godlike arrogance.

...well...maybe not Toast...

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Posted by: iBotPeaches
So tan text= mod, yellow text=works at Bungie?
It's more of a lovely shade of "salmon" I think. While all gold-texted posters except AdjutantReflex work at Bungie, it's more of a "you just gotta know" kind of thing for the salmon-texted posters. Some, such as stosh, N0F, and THE DON WAN do (or did) work at Bungie, while others, such as the previous posters in this thread and the vast majority of the other salmon-texted posters, do not. Try looking up a moderator on Bungiepedia if you're unsure whether they work at Bungie.


I would call it more of a "puke" color....

I remember when i was a mod.....*sigh*

good times

  • 11.15.2007 9:18 AM PDT

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