Programming team has a new Team Leader: me!

**longneck** · Jun 1, 2009, 06:22

Rudy, a SitePoint icon and moderating über-ninja, has decided to enjoy the fruits of his labor in this community, and has passed the title of Team Leader on to me.

I look forward to helping keep SitePoint the excellent community it already is.

Thank you for your years of service, Rudy! And don't be a stranger!

**r937** · Jun 1, 2009, 06:57

thanks, longneck, for the kind words

i'm not leaving sitepoint, i will still be here for SQL questions and so on

remember, folks, the price of a spam-free, fluff-free, useful community forum is constant vigilance

i hope everyone knows what the little red triangle

beside every post is for -- if you see spam or fluff, please report it

thanks and see you in the forums

**RyanReese** · Jun 1, 2009, 07:58

Sorry to hear you leave it

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Hopefully longneck is up to the challenge

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**Dan Schulz** · Jun 1, 2009, 08:48

He's just leaving the staff, not the forums.

If he was leaving the forums, I'd have started him on The Long Walk (Judge Dredd style).

**RyanReese** · Jun 1, 2009, 08:49

I mean the position he handed over. I'm sorry he is leaving that lol.

**AlexDawson** · Jun 1, 2009, 08:52

Poor rudy, everyone is planning his "early retirement"

**AutisticCuckoo** · Jun 1, 2009, 22:48

Rudy (a.k.a. The Moderating Machine) stepping down means the rest of us will have to work twice as hard. But we'll do it.

Congratulations to your promotion, Carl!

**kohoutek** · Jun 1, 2009, 22:51

Congratulations!

And I'm glad Rudy will be around the forums, though it is a well deserved retirement, too. Not that I have much to do with SQL (yet), but whenever I needed information in the past, just reading the answers in the related forums were always more than helpful.

**Jake Arkinstall** · Jun 2, 2009, 02:31

Well, it's certainly going to get some getting-used-to! Losing the staff member of the year will be a blow to the team.

Congratulations Longneck! You've got some big boots to fill and I'm sure you will do so. You've done alot for the forums as a mentor and an advisor; You definitely deserve the promotion and I have no doubts that you're going to do a fantastic job.

**Paul O'B** · Jun 2, 2009, 05:26

Congratulations Carl and glad that Rudy is still hanging around

**RetroNetro** · Jun 2, 2009, 14:18

Oh no!!! The SPAM finally got to Rudy!

Job well done Rudy!

Congrats Carl on the promotion and getting to create the thread yourself.

**akritic** · Jun 3, 2009, 00:16

Congrats Carl

Rudy, thanks for the hard work you put in

**Nadia P** · Jun 3, 2009, 01:02

Congrats on the promotion Carl :-)
Rudy, you'll certainly be missed !

**spikeZ** · Jun 4, 2009, 05:26

Congrats Carl, a worthy and capable replacement for sure.
Rudy - your SPHQ slippers and plaid blanket are on the way......

**molona** · Jun 5, 2009, 11:15

Congratulations Karl! You'll be great in your new role and the tie really suits you.

Rudy, glad that you are staying. I still need to learn lots from you and I don't think that I can learn that much in a short time. So stay for a long, long time

**Dark Tranquility** · Jun 6, 2009, 05:36

Congrats Carl! Well deserved!
Rudy... We will be missed on the dark side!

**Datura** · Jun 10, 2009, 10:26

Congrats Carl

And to Rudy: thanks for doing such an outstanding job

**Varelse** · Jun 10, 2009, 13:36

Thanks Rudy for everything you have done for the community. And just like the iceberg - the visible part was only the 1/10 of it.

And congratulations Carl