ButteBlues
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| Username: (on MTGS Wiki) | ButteBlues |
|---|---|
| Username: | ButteBlues, ButteBlues18 (formerly), a simple façade (formerly) |
| Also known as: | BB18, BB, çade |
| Status: | Past Global Moderator Banned MTGS User MTGS Writer Former World Project Leader |
| Gender: | Male |
| Birthday: | October 13, 1989 |
| Join Date: (MTGS) | 01-01-2005 |
ButteBlues is a retired global moderator at MTG Salvation. He is also a former moderator of the Type 2, Colosseum, and Clans forums on MTG Salvation.
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[edit] Online activity
ButteBlues began his career and web life as a young and renowned member of the MTGNews and MTG Salvation forums in June of 2003.
[edit] Moderatorship
At the time of the resignation of well over half of the MTGNews staff, he came to MTG Salvation and became a moderator under Xenphire. He moderated for the next 11 months, at which time he resigned his position in protest to "ineffective leadership" on the part of former administrator, Belgareth.
During his stay as a moderator, he is credited with being one of the first MTG Salvation writers, writing its first article, reforming much of the layout of the strategy forums, reforming rules in the strategy forums, and pushing the Wiki Project.
Outside of staff affairs, ButteBlues has mainly been active in his former forums of moderation — Clans, the Colosseum, and Type 2. In the Clans forum, he has been a driving force in the creation or growth of a handful of clans. Helping with the revival of an MTGNews hold-over, called Sanity's Requiem, the forming of the No Pun Intended (NPI) clan, and being a continuing member of Project Mayhem. In The Colosseum, he has been the moderator of several World Projects and has even created one of his own. As for Type 2, up until recently, ButteBlues was an active poster in the competitive part of that particular forum.
[edit] Banning
On 23 April, soon after kingcobweb's banning, ButteBlues was also banned, after much deliberation from the MTGS staff.
[edit] Clan affiliation
ButteBlues was a member of the much-respected, now-defunct Project Mayhem clan, one of the oldest clans on MTGSalvation.
[edit] Achievements
- The Colosseum
- Former World Project Leader for Between Heaven and Hell
- Former World Project Leader for Nihil Academy
- Creator and former World Project Leader for Blood Red Moon
- Contests, competitions, and awards
- Photoshopper for Several Shops (currently Midnight GFX)
- Winner of several Weekly Contests
- Nominee of 3 Forum Awards in 2004 at MTGNews (Best Clan Member, Best Extended Strategist, Best Type 2 Strategist)
- Nominee of 3 Forum Awards in 2005 at MTG Salvation (Best Moderator, Best Signature, Best Avatar/Sig Maker)
- Nominee of 2 Forum Awards in 2006 at MTG Salvation (Best Clan Member, Most Helpful Member)
- Most Helpful Member 2006
- Other
- Co-author of MTGS's first article
[edit] Other activity
In addition to being a forum technician of MTGNews and an administrator at Magic Deck Vortex, ButteBlues is an online advocate of Linux, Ubuntu, FOSS, The GIMP, GNOME, KDE, and The Tango Project.
[edit] Biography
Outside the Internet, Will Farrington was born in 1989, in Montague, CA, to Irish parents Steven Leon Farrington and Lee Ann Evatt. Since then, he has endured much in his lifetime. For the first several years of his life, his parents shuffled around to other parts of North California, and eventually, to Oregon. In May of 1992, his young brother, Justin Ryne Farrington, was born. Later that year, the family moved out to Sheridan, WY.
In the fall of 1994, his parents sought a divorce after Steven had been found to be cheating with another woman. Custody of Will and his brother remained with their mother, Lee Ann. Without the substantial paycheck they had been recieving prior, the remaining members of the family were forced to leave their house behind and move into a small two-bedroom apartment. Not long after, the family eventually moved to the small community of Buffalo, WY — about 20 miles from Sheridan. They remained there for only a short time, before moving another 30 miles out of town to Clearmont, WY — a ranching community.
After two years there, Lee Ann yearned to return to her hometown of Butte, MT, and indeed, she did, along with her two children. They remained there with her mother for several years, before moving to Billings, MT. Only two years after moving there, the family returned to Butte in order to help provide for Lee Ann's mother.
Once her mother had sold her house and moved to South Dakota, Lee Ann moved the family to Great Falls, MT, in order to be closer to the Montana School for the Deaf & Blind (MSDB) as Justin was hearing-impaired and in desperate need of education from teachers well-versed in sign language. After 3 and a half years there, the family moved yet again — this time to Conyers, GA (a suburb of Atlanta).
He currently lives in south-east Atlanta with his mother, brother, and grandmother, and is a junior (11th year student) at Salem High School. He is a member of the Jazz Band, the Marching Band, and the French Club. Currently, he is considering either majoring in music theory and composition, or majoring in journalism and minoring in music when he attends college.
[edit] External links
- "Technical Support Thread" — MTG Salvation
- "Nice Going, God!"
- ButteBlues at Last.fm
- butteblues at Last.fm
- wfarr at Last.fm
