End of an Era

It's been about 4 years since I became a team member, and it has been a very productive, very dynamic four years, and working on Numista has been absolutely terrific. Ever since I became a team member, the coin count jumped from less than 10,000 coins to over 55,000 and counting. Numista grew in steps, from little additions on the site, to new team members introduced, to changes in the site through requests. Numista has grown so much the request system gets flooded with help from all of you members, which I truly appreciate. While that 4 year mark will more than likely count to five years, six years, however long Numista will keep growing with every members' contributions, it will be less and less time I can spend on the site.

College is starting tomorrow, and just a few hours afterward I will continue my 3-week new job at the local Subway. While I'm excited to continue my education, I realized when, coming home from work and showering after 8 hours of handling food and washing dishes that I was the last dish. Including Numista, all the hard work invested into each served request is yet another dish I would have to take care of. I also realized that, working at a team-based environment, there is a lot of responsibility; one looks out for another. Coworkers don't worry about who-does-what, it is a matter of "we do any work to further each other as a whole". It reminds me of my coworker who went into labor today, and I had to run the restaurant alone on a busy Sunday. A few days ago we would spend an hour after work still cleaning and taking inventory, and it is unbelieveable how much effort and responsibility she held over the restaurant. While I know it is my duty to take responsibility in your requests, I question how much responsibility is needed to handle these many requests. Currently I read 97 pending requests, how much of this is my responsibility? Is there anyone else who can help file these requests? Who holds responsibility?

I'd like to take this moment to personally thank Euromunt, apuking, whitegandalf, eminem, elvis123, and countless others who have put in their time and effort in bettering this site. With the increasingly less time I can put into Numista, I hope that at some point they will become some of our next team members. bam77 and monephil have done an excellent job in upholding the responsibilities of the team, and I by far have not thanked them enough, despite our little communication. Thank you so much to the both of you.

I would also like to sincerely apologize to torontokuba and pnightingale for my extremely crass behavior about 2 years ago, when a member created several sock-puppet accounts. I have also made mistakes on the site, such as moving pages from one country to another and it has impacted the team as a whole. I have made Numista look bad, I did not have the spine to apologize publicly, and I am terribly sorry.

While I will continue working on Numista, it cannot be as frequent as 12 hours, as one member mentioned on a forum page. However, I will answer any requests through the system, and any special requests through PM. I sincerely hope there is no discouragement from the inactivity from the creator of the site, who has done an incredible job in making one of the best, if not the best coin websites in the world, and I hope to see more of your requests. Thank you for all of your help.

THANKS for all the hard work you did for numista.
And good look at college this year.

Wim

You have done an incredible amount of great work here on Numista during that time and I would like to publicly express my immense gratitude for that. If it wasn't for your efforts, the catalogue wouldn't be half as good as it is today.

It is absolutely right that college and paid employment must come first in your life priorities and we at Numista will be grateful for any spare time that you might be able to spend here. I wish you lots of luck for the future and Happy Collecting!

No!, you're being incredibly selfish.  I demand that you are available 24/7 at our beck and call for every little whim and fancy we have.  

Thanks for everything  Kenny.
Roy

Thanks for the hard work Kenny! Knew you were starting college this year and wondered how you would find time to keep up with Numista... let the requests lag a little, your education comes first. Numista chugs along.... and (for me) continues to be a good way to catalog my collection

Thank you for the hard work you have done Kenny!
The people who complain are almost always the same people who don't ever do anything themselves at all.
Please don't worry about ""the mistakes""... some people on here like to exaggerate things.

Dear KennyG,

May I start by saying a big thank you for all the Numista team. Congratulations on your graduation from boy to man...and with your new name KennyG...maybe you can continue what you can to the benefit of Numista. Remember to focus on the important things. Numista will stand. Thank you from the team and I hope you can keep helping us with Chinese cash identification! Many thanks.

And now that you're KennyG, maybe you can change your profile picture to this

For me you were the only referee that also took care of validating small exotic islands like abc-islands and sri lanka. thank you.

much luck for your college.



PS: numista is in its dying breaths.

No apology is needed Kenny, it's water under a distant bridge. Don't brood over the matter, I forgave and forgot long ago.

If you apply yourself at college with even half of the enthusiasm and diligence you gave to Numista then you will cruise through.

Kenny! Enough is said by respected members above my post and all I can do is simply second everything. Good luck in college. Which one are you going to? Close to home? Or maybe a bit north?

I'd like to thank everyone for the comments, all of you make me feel at home.

Cita: smoked_caramelWhich one are you going to? Close to home? Or maybe a bit north?

I'm heading to OCC (just had my first class today, Calculus 2) and will attend UCI in a year or two, depending on how quickly I finish my prerequisites and major requirements.

And Neil I very much appreciate your witty comments.

I know exactly how you feel-- I'm starting university in four days. Good luck and make sure you have fun dude!

Kenny has done an incredible job here these years, thank you very much!
Good luck in college, wish you enjoy and happy learning.

Hey smartone thank you for all your help and work on Numista.Good luck in college and happy coin collecting
          yours daryl

You don't need to apologise for anything because you did so many great things so these mistakes (if you could call them mistakes) should be and are forgotten. I would like to say a great "Thank You!" for everything You made on this site. I am sure that some of Numista members would like to help you to file those many requests. As I had mentioned it many times before, I would like to help You and all others in these requests but unfortunately there is no Xavier to approve this. If I can still help, not being in Numista team, feel free to ask me anything any time, 24/7. I know that going to college is big thing, so it is also for you. The same thing with your (first?) job. I also know that it carries big responsibilities so I want you all the best in your career and life.
Regards
Kuna

I'd like to give another thank you to everyone's responses. Kuna I did need to apologize, I have made mistakes and this is just part of correcting it.

I've been gone from Numista for about a week, and I'll put it simply: college (especially Calc2) is kicking my ass like a football. It's becoming exponentially difficult to find time for Numista, and just recently I asked my boss to cut my work schedule (used to work literally every day), now I have time to actually sleep. I'm also taking Java so hopefully maybe in the future I can have some insight on changing some basic Numista features.

Thank you kenny for everything you have done   for this site by adding tonssss of coins and verfing so so manyyy new entries or changes for this you are truly respected by our little Numista community, id wish that respect and effort could also be seen by the french sides members. Good luck with your studies as well please don't forget to also enjoy this special time in life which will not come back that quick again later in life. The first three semesters are usually the toughest but im sure you will make it through, maybe we can see more of you during your semester brakes which usually are long.

Hello there,
we just read that today.
We know we did not agree on everything all along those 4 years (far away...). We will not thank you for the thousands of file you created about money nobody had in collection, non completed, with year list partly full (some french one with only one mint mark while 10 exists...), not perfectly full filled.... well we will not come back on that, you know our opinion.

But we always agreed on one thing : you are an amazing worker, working fast and lots lots lots (maybe too much, that explains certain of your "mistakes") and those last years, since makake left us, the all correcting system worked mainly thanks to you.

We understand you as your reason joined our reason to leave the team.

We think this time, someone (start we a "X") will have to take his responsabilities or the all system will collaps.

Thank you for your big work and hope you'll enjoy the rest.

PS : did you inform the team and the french part of numista ?

I'm not leaving, I'm saying I won't be on Numista as much. My reasons to not work as much on Numista is not because of Xavier, but because I simply have no time to "create about money nobody had in collection, non completed, with year list partly full" and check modifications.

Since you mentioned it, I will apologize for not doing things right 4 years ago (adding images from copyrighted sources, adding pages without completing the year list (which I have stopped doing about a year or two ago)), and the recent "referee" problem a year ago. However I wished that you understood that, when translating pages, I had no idea that there would be errors; a bug in the system. And the profanity, does French Numista have any control over their language? French Numista made my mistakes look deliberate because many of you remembered my poor work habit from, say, 4 years ago? Like you mentioned, they are "far away". I acknowledge that these were very bad mistakes against Numista, but in the future I ask that all of you please do not use the past against me.

Most of my changes were intended to improve the site large scale. I kept things humble, my work dedicated to the site was a little gift to everyone. Maybe I should've mentioned redoing the entire German states section by properly translating the English pages and correcting denominations. Maybe I should've told everyone about how I fixed the disorganized, messy English coins by using Spink instead of WC. Oh and remember how I added Duplessy numbers to French pages so that they could be more organized? And hey why didn't I bring up how I corrected all the Chinese and Japanese pages since no one knows jack about how to read this stuff? Who else was going to do this?

By "responsibility" I didn't mean Xavier. Everyone knows it's a lost cause, you either have to be new to the site or blind to not recognize this. Who is handling the requests now? Can we add new members to the team who are, not only willing to help, but actually follow the guidelines instead of saying "let the member who added the page fix it?" We obviously need new team members, we need to revamp the broken referee system, but who's going to do this?

For these reasons I'm taking a break

Cita: KennyGBy "responsibility" I didn't mean Xavier. Everyone knows it's a lost cause, you either have to be new to the site or blind to not recognize this. Who is handling the requests now? Can we add new members to the team who are, not only willing to help, but actually follow the guidelines instead of saying "let the member who added the page fix it?" We obviously need new team members, we need to revamp the broken referee system, but who's going to do this?

For these reasons I'm taking a break

We agree on all that. To your knowledge, in January, Xavier asked us to be "chef of the team", to lead the team and regular tension between referees and team members. We agreed on the condition we would have full right to manage the team the way we wanted and that meant : write a "team-referees policy" with rules on duties for everyone, add new members to the team and especially, not following the rules, not doing your duties, not taking your responsabilities, sorry, no room for you on the team.
This was in January.... It was Xavier's demand.... we are still waiting his respond/correction to our "team policy" and the all sytem is falling apart because people do not get answers. We lost patience.

And to your knowledge too, one of our first condition to be "team manager" was to have you "under control" which meant, one other "mistake", tension or whatever... out of the team. Xavier said Yes. Main of the rest of the team wanted you out but we took your defense because, YES, we know you are doing a lot a lot with verifications and other and we were aware we could not do correct job with you out of the team.
So, yes, our reason join yours, we agree with you, most of the team is not doing his duty, we need more people (referees and team) and we need more turn over so people gets less tired of the job. AND this is XAVIER's responsabilty (that is why we said so)

Cita: 7475laurentwe are still waiting his respond/correction to our "team policy" and the all sytem is falling apart because people do not get answers. We lost patience.

You see this is the big summary of this year on Numista. It's really a shame that we aren't getting answers, but it seems like you've given up which is completely natural. Thanks for defending me, and I apologize for my rude behavior towards you on some forum pages (was an angsty teen). Despite what happened in the past, you were priceless to the team, and I hope something happens soon, if at all.

Something interesting to see:
https://fr.numista.com/forum/topic33033.html

Hello,
i do not lurk around on "Numista catalogue" sub-forum much because i am one of these people who would like to contribute, but can't because of several reasons, most important of them being that i don't have a computer these days, because my old one broke before i had a chance to learn about updating Numista catalogue.
However i also am very grateful for the big work that people like yourself have done to this site to make it such great source of information and all else that it is.
Hopefully when my means of lurking around in Numista are not confined by internet caffee or internet in my phone, i also can contribute.
Good luck with college and hope you are going to enjoy it and graduate with great results.

Thanks for all your support, Kenny, and congratulations to your username change, specially.
Looks a lot better!
I totally understand your reasons, you know that.
But you are not the type of guy who takes a "French leave" and disappear...  
which is beneficial for all of us.

As anyone can plainly tell, I am retired from Numista. But, I did not delete my account, and that was precisely for moments like this.

Kenny, as you already saw, everyone on Numista (including myself) admires your work. I also admire the fact that you keep on working, and presumably you are the biggest single contributed to the English catalog. You also are an active forum participant, and use your knowledge to help he community.

Good luck in college!

Oh my god! They sent Kenny to college!
You people concerned with the higher education of America!

Thanks Kenneth, good luck in college!

I havent even noticed a difference you are still validating mine within a day or two ha ! good luck at college ! i will now lean on monephil for changes when i eventually get the rest of my  coins in order im gunna sit down once the new house is all sorted and re- catalogue everything, simply because i think i have alot of coins that arent in the catalogue but have been forgotten about.