Talk:BMW S 1000 RR/@comment-31044517-20180116132831/@comment-27736210-20180118115317

@AFU

No, I'm not a moderator/admin for the Wiki.

I'm a "casual" editor. I started editing the Wiki halfway through 2017. Since then, I haven't really been in contact with Hadam (who has been inactive for ages) and I've only had infrequent contact with Profoundly Quiet (who has been the only mod/admin on the Wiki for a year).

But I did become "noticed" by the senpai who goes by the name of Feuerrm Films. I think it was when I told him how to tune the Mercedes-Benz GLC Coupe and Porsche 959 that he started to become my friend, maybe 4-5 months ago (I got shoutouts from him some of his videos relating to those two vehicles). I had watched a few of his videos where he mentioned his Google Plus Community so I joined it. I actually had not used Google Plus much before (I had used it directly from a Phone App called [Word Hero] several years earlier, but only for a few minutes), so when Feuerrm Films "insta-modded" me (he made me a moderator of his community as soon as I joined; this was when it had ~300 people in it), I wasn't actually 100% sure whether he had made me a moderator.

I've been an active moderator for Feuerrm's community since then. A few days ago, Feuerrm had a live-stream and I actually got a shoutout from him when I joined it. And I was also able to enter some of his Multiplayer lobbies and again got a few shoutouts. So I'm definitely one of the VIPs in Feuerrm's community... probably within the top 20 of his "notice me senpai" list; others in this list are Carl Raven, Late Trender, Dr Healusion, Aris Cheese God, etc.

Thanks to Feuerrm Films, I was able to gain a greater reputation in the community, I think. Now, I own two of my own Google Plus groups and they actually have a handful of people in them; Asphalt Wiki Editors Group and Asphalt 8 Art Gallery (which I have basically left in the hands of another player called Violet Driver, who is well-known for his drawings of the Arrinera Hussarya GT [digital] and the Aston Martin Vulcan Special Edition [various pen on paper]).

I've started quite a few ambitious projects over the past few months (usually on my own, at first, but I've gotten a few other people interested in them as well). I actually rewrote what I estimate to be at least half of the vehicle pages on the Wiki, if not 75% of them. I specifically rewrote pages for notorious Multiplayer Cars and for "Starter's Cars". One of my first rewrites was the Volkswagen Beetle Turbo. I actually developed several different formats for my edits, but I eventually settled for the "Summary-Performance-Usage-Price" format. Personally, I think that format is very good because it is specifically designed so that OTHER editors can also change sections and add new information without completely stuffing up the article. Also, the way I've written the articles is very neutral; though there is some bias, the "stream of thought" usually only exists within each individual section of the article. An edit to the "Summary" section will generally not affect an edit to the "Price" section, for example. In the past, many articles were written by only a single person, with many articles appearing different from others, and with hardly any categorization within the articles (any categorization was unlabelled and there was no consistency with this). So, my new format, I believe, has actually revolutionized this Wiki. In fact, McLaren P1 Boy was the first person to notice how useful (despite being so simple) my format was and he actually copied my format into 20 or so articles himself, only a few days after I invented the format and applied it to the Volkswagen Beetle Turbo's page. Interestingly enough, at the beginning, both Profoundly Quiet and McLaren P1 Boy had been following me around and doing massive changes to my edits (they didn't really delete stuff; they just refined stuff or changed it), so that explains how McLaren P1 Boy managed to discover the format so quickly.

After that (I still do these vehicle article edits, but less frequently nowadays), I decided to make the Asphalt 8 Art Gallery on Google Plus. One of my first visitors was Violet Driver, who was much more interested in advertising the group and keeping it alive than I was. He's been so helpful that I recently appointed him as the joint-owner of the group; in fact, I've wanted to do this from the beginning but Google Plus only implemented co-ownership in a recent update. In the Asphalt 8 Art Gallery, several different art-forms, notably "Pen on Paper" and "Digital" are encouraged (in real life, I'm pretty good at art, though I'm not an expert at anything).

Then, I made the Asphalt Wiki Editors Group on Google Plus. From there, I've started a handful of projects, mostly to do with Multiplayer tuning. I went around and did research on Multiplayer tuning some "hidden gems"; notably, I am one of the "discoverers" of the SIN R1 (many people thought it was bad until I promoted it via the Wiki) and I am also, as you may know, one of the people who has promoted the Arrinera Hussarya GT, among other vehicles. I've written the majority of the BMW Hommage and Camaro SS articles, among other high-traffic pages. Then, after gathering data for dozens of cars, I started assembling my ultimate project; the Multiplayer Cars Guide. This guide has become a hidden gem on this Wiki, although it's been somewhat slaughtered by the Mercedes-Benz SLK SE MPE.

I also assembled the "History of Multiplayer in Asphalt 8" as a fun little side-project to compliment my Multiplayer Cars Guide. Of course, it never became official and I essentially scrapped the guide, after the SLK SE MPE (though the guide is still popular within the community). But the pages are all still here on the Wiki.

Recently, someone from RpM made a post on the Asphalt 8 Google Community (4000 members, with Rez being the "most official" member in the entire group; he's a moderator for the Official Forums). The post was congratulating his teammates who helped him to reach ~4500 rating points in Multiplayer League, during the Holiday Rush Season. Of course, I did not like this post, so I wrote in the comments (I was the second commenter), something along the lines of "So basically, you are proud that you cheated and gained unfair ratings that are ridiculously high compared to what you're supposed to get, which is probably ~2500 if you don't lobby." Despite being attacked by 2-3 lobbiers who were "offended" at my remark, this comment was upvoted more than ten times by various people. The thread eventually went haywire and many people were arguing (there were 40+ comments on the thread by the end). Finally, Rez showed up and decided to try to dissolve the hostility. Instead, however, Dr Martin Kneip and the original poster decided to join in on the conversation and started to ACTUALLY have a conversation about lobbying. Both Rez and Dr Martin Kneip definitively called lobbying "exploiting" and essentially told the RpM guy that he was breaking the rules. Then Rez decided to make an official complaint to Gameloft to try to fix the lobbying problem; so far, I haven't heard back from him yet.

I did gain some more "good karma" from my comments on that post. Then a player called Host, who had been following my comments on the lobbying post, decided to explore my Google Plus post history. He found the Asphalt Wiki Editors Group and made some comments, thus reviving the group (so, therefore, the revival of that group is a direct result of my comment on the lobbying post). After that, I decided to start reviving the group myself. And, after just a day, the population of the group increased by 5 players, excluding Host (the total is 34, currently). Hopefully, the Wiki Editors group will be a worthwhile project to continue working on... while I am working on that, I'm sure Violet Driver will be able to handle the Art Gallery.

Hopefully, also, Hadam will notice my work and will promote me to an admin/mod in the Wiki. Of course, this is not essential. But it would be nice.