James Hadden

James Hadden, better known by his alias TheSilenceOfNoOne, commonly abbreviated TSON, or [TSON], is a SSF2 Developer and founder of the McLeodGaming Wiki. He is the leader of the SSF2 Balancer's Section, head of PR (appointed "PRincess" by Void), a character coder, and a self-proclaimed mediocre spriter.

The original forums
[TSON] joined as TheSilenceOfNoOne on the original McLeodGaming Forums and proceeded to make a completely brain-dead post on what changes he would like to see before Super Smash Flash 2 is released, at the age of 11, and posing (poorly) as a 17 year old so that he could stay without being banned for being underage. He was overall relatively irrelevant until about November 2007, when he made the Event Compilation Topic, which flourished quickly. Soon after, he made the Point Breakdown topic, and many other topics that became quite popular.

As a developer
In February of 2007, [TSON] suggested to Cleod9 that there should be a section where the development of SSF2 is hidden from the public, so that the game can be more private and secretive. The SSF2 Dev's Section was made in March of that year, and [TSON] applied to be a developer in April 2007. After promising to make an item for the game (and having no spriting skill whatsoever), he was accepted. The promised item has not been made, to this day.

His first post in the Dev's section was discussing the first storyline. From there, he wrote an unused storyline from scratch, using Ziku's first scene as a starting point.

On June 1st, 2008, [TSON] created and posted the McLeodGaming Wiki on the Forums. From there, [TSON] became the lead Bug Tester, and continued to find bugs that went largely unnoticed and posted them in the Dev's section to show Cleod9 and have them fixed.

Mod era
Late May of 2008, [TSON] was promoted to mod of the SSB section after months of whining and implying that he wanted the position. At the time, he was hotheaded and 12, which led to his demise after a short two months in the position.

July 24th, 2008, [TSON] heavily flamed a veteran of the Forums in the Spam section, and gave himself 99 demerits (from 30). A thread was started in the VIP Section the day after, which suggested that he be banned for a short time to calm down. What was done instead was that he was banned for a short time and stripped of his moderator duties. This is one of the cases detailed on RyanKajito's raid-based website. This did nothing but discourage [TSON], who ranted about this every chance given, on how many people were 'watching him', whatever he did. He left MG for a short amount of time the week after due to the stress and embarrassment that ensued.

The New Forums
[TSON] joined the new Forums in July of 2009. By this time he was more coherent and could handle himself. He continued to be the leader as far as bug reporting, and when the devs could code characters, he quickly took hold of this and coded the third character made with the CDK,. He had finally found his niche.

Sometime in 2009, with his newfound coding knowledge, he asked Cleod9 to start up the SSF2 Balancer's Section. While this section was originally created for strictly balance, it has now evolved into Quality Assurance and the users give characters combos, clean up their imperfections, and offer the creators tips on what moves need respriting. It is also used as a proving ground for potential new devs.

On January 8th, 2010, [TSON] was remodded as section mod of the SSF2 Discussion section, alongside Kiki and Hakker.

External link

 * TheSilenceOfNoOne's YouTube channel