So, since there's been quite a bit of confusion, let me clear a few things up here, and say a little bit about my side of the story. This is not here to start a debate, simply state another side of the story, since I feel as if Lossy portrays me and my skills pretty poorly.
When NinJa was beginning his departure from CoD4 and Raid, we had a few conversations over steam and got along quite nicely, and became good friends. He told me of his decision to depart from raid, but nothing of how he wanted me to take his place. That was a surprise to me as well. His request was for me to become a Community Manager, which never happened, obviously, as the other CM's at the time didn't feel as if I was ready for the job, which I agree with. As @Darmuh stated earlier, I was too busy with schoolwork, baseball, and other extracurricular activities. I had no experience for the job either, I was really only good with server-side stuff, and even then, only CoD4, Minecraft, and Teamspeak stuff. I had no idea how to run webservers or anything else. But yet again, all we ran at Raid was CoD4, Minecraft, and teamspeak, so I could easily help manage server-side stuff. I was easily capable, and had the knowledge to do it. I couldn't help much with development of the servers, but I could help with maintenance and upkeep. Surprisingly, I was kept on as a Server Manager, probably to NinJa's consistent nagging of Darmuh and Lossy to put me in a higher position of power than my current admin status. Upon receiving server manager, I was never given access to the dedicated server itself. I would ask a couple times, but I never actually received it. I had echelon access, but that was about the most access I ever received. I was basically a Lead Admin with the Server Manager label. However, when Darmuh, Lossy, Thomas, and BraXi all decided to step down, came into the picture and took over Raid. I myself was in the running for the CM job, but I'm glad I didn't end up going through with it anyways, since Troll has done a much better job than I ever could have. However, Troll was the first to give me access to the dedicated server, as we planned to go into CS:GO and asked me to setup a server for testing, since I now knew how to setup CSGO servers and setup mods on them. I received the access, but however did absolutely nothing with it, as grades were dropping and I desperately had to get them back up to standards. Everything in my current life sorta fell apart at once, and you can ask @Anti about how many times he messaged me on xfire or steam asking how I was, only to get a short response about how I'm not doing well and am unable to talk since I was studying. (On a side note, I do miss those conversations :wub:) With everything else going on, both academically and even more personally, I had no time to work on the servers, and ultimately was moved to the "Retired" admins group by Troll without any warning. I messaged him immediately and asked why I had lost it, and he replied with how I had not done any "Server managing" despite being a server manager. So, with a little bit of begging I received it back, but it was short-lived as I still did nothing and quickly lost my status again.
So, basically, that's the story of how I got SM from @NinJa, and then lost it. I never really used my opportunity to show that I could work well as a server manager, but I am easily capable of doing so, despite Lossy's concrete mindset that I am useless when it comes to servers.