Grant

Grant
Profile
Aliases:	allyourbaseman08 (on AIM & MSN)
Real name:	Donald Grant Herring
Interests:	Video games, fangaming, art

Grant joined the MFGG message board on November 1st, 2006, after lurking for a couple weeks. He started out very popular, in part due to his long and detailed introduction post [1].

He kept his popularity for a long time on MFGG, but eventually fell into disfavor with many members for reasons related to his attitude toward the administration.

Contributions

Grant has started on a major Mario fangame project. It has no working title yet, but it is planned to be a full-length Mario platformer, similar to Super Mario Bros. 3 and Super Mario World, and featuring new power-ups as well as concepts borrowed from various Mario games. This game has not been shown to the public at all yet.

He has also started on a 3D Mario game made in Game Maker, which largely uses sprites instead of models. This has arguably been his most popular project. Its working title is "Super Mario 3D".

He has been in several competitions so far. He plans on submitting his first minigame competition entry, Mario's Coin Lure, to the site eventually, after adding more levels, items, and possibly enemies to it. A later Minigame Comp entry, Little Cheep's Coin Chase, got him 1st place in the competition and is now on the main site.

Grant has also attempted to help the administration on the MFGG message board by contacting them of a potential problem or starting a discussion on a certain issue that would benefit the forums. He has also been a noticeable contributor to the MFGG Wiki, doing things such as updating information, redirecting articles, and reverting vandalism.

Temporary Leave

After the events of November 13th/14th, Grant temporarily left the MFGG forums due to the demodding of Joey and Trasher. His belief was that both of them had been excellent administration members who had worked tirelessly to work in MFGG's best interests, and he saw their demodding (or at least Joey's) as a victory for certain members who were known to complain about the staff and make trouble frequently on the forums, and many of whom he saw as having grudges against the mods after being banned fairly by them in the past.

Grant had already had a history before this of consistently defending moderator decisions. He has been accused numerous times of doing this to curry favor with the admins and mods, but has more than once rejected this as nonsense, bringing up as evidence the fact that he was conscious of certain administration team members disliking his ways, and asking why he would try to please some mods while displeasing others. He has said that his motive in defending the mods when they were under fire, especially Joey and Trasher, was that he felt they could use backup when "ganged up on" and that he was convinced that their decisions were correct (and also that he disliked the ways of their enemies).

It is unclear whether he is missed on the forums currently or not, though he may not be missed by many after the commotion he caused during the events of the day he left. He has not left permanently, however: as of this writing, he plans to return once he has caught up with some college work he is far behind in. He has viewed the forums during his absence and has seen some of the positive new policies, as well as the fact that Joey and Trasher are both cool with the situation now, and considers the forums worth coming back to.

He is active even now on the MFGG main site, and fully intends to continue fangaming once he has the time again.

Trivia

• To date he has never been warned/suspended, and he has generally been very careful to keep it that way, at least up until near the time of his leave.