Rapmaster

[The Helper]

Rapmaster!

You gotta know this was pre-Y2K here in the break dancing days. Rapmaster_C was his name and Helping was his game. He should have been a Blizzard Forums MVP but unfortunately never was. He did however, achieve the much higher level of Microsoft MVP title years later - I wonder where they got that idea from Out of the Freaking Blue Rap master is a Microsoft MVP. I don't even think he told us, we found out through the forums.

Rapmaster was (is) awesome when it comes to tech support and we got him young. Judging by his name he was in his teens, when all of the other MVPs and Wargasm were in our twenties and thirties, this guy was a teen. He was part of the original Blizzard tech support crew and was a mainstay in the forums but he rarely abused the 2 post limit.

He was very active on the TheHelper.net forums and was one of the guys that kept it going during my couple of years of inactivity (married with children). Rapmaster answered every question in the TheHelper.net forums when nobody ever came. There might not be a question in a week but when one was asked freaking Rapmaster answered. I imagine that is why he became the Microsoft MVP trying to find people to help and he finally got focused on the Microsoft Forums. Rapmaster is still here. We freaking Love Him! No Homo He is not that active but his input is highly regarded in the Admin forums and his legacy is not forgotten.

Rapmaster_C - gotta love the name! You are a permanent part of TheHelper.net history and the Blizzard Tech Support forums if they had a written history (someone needs to tap Pat N on the shoulder about that) The Open Tech Support Split (more about that later) - not even a question - Rapmaster was with us and carried us through the hard times to this day as our guru, much like Acehart in the later days (more about that later as well). 21 freaking gun salute to you my friend Rapmaster C

Rapmaster says

Ya I think I was about 17 back when I started with the name. By then I had been doing hobby-programming on Apple II and 286s (and on) for 5-7 years. This was a time when people used computers as offline tools! Most multiplayer games were modem-to-modem. Starcraft gave me a reason to go online. And I abused the Blizzard post limit. 2 posts, 2 using ISP's main web proxy, 2 more using 2nd proxy, then reconnect dialup and hope for a new IP. I'd sometimes post troll messages under other names for some reason. I think Blizzard figured it out

I never knew about the Microsoft MVP thing until they found me. It went for about 3 years and then to renew it they were asking for writing blogs, books and speaking at conferences. They have a program now that's just for forum posters called "Community contributor" but it doesn't have all the free stuff and trips to Seattle. Was fun for a while.

Rapmaster(_C) was intended to be ironic or sarcastic or whatever, because I never liked rap music. Or break dancing.

Now I work for a government IT department and don't care as much about computers I still lurk here but don't post as much. Unless we want to start a Microsoft Exchange forum

thanks for the words