Editing Kuz (section)

===Purchase===
<small>Main article:</small> <small>[[The Great Purchase]]</small>

On July 16th, kuz announced that he had contacted soot and offered to buy the 'party for $2,000, which soot accepted, and on July 17th, granted kuz ownership of the site and the booru in exchange for the money. The reactions to this news are mostly positive but there has also been prominent criticism from vocal anti-kuz groups within the site. Kuz has done little in line of censoring this discussion, to the surprise of some 'teens

Under kuz's ownership the 'party has seen a variety of changes. Kuz stickied a Jakbox thread after a moratorium on such threads had existed under soot, reviving the genre into its likely all time peak. In addition to this, multiple Q&A threads were posted over the next few days where kuz discussed the sites needs. He ultimately decided on several new rules, such as banning BBC cobson spam, several board deletions, and new moderation staff, whom he says will be watched closely.
[[File:Kuz approved frog thread.png|thumb|Kuz lightened policies on some types of nas]]

====Changes during his Administration====
Since kuz's takeover, a variety of changes have been made to the site, some have been undone and others have stayed. Among these changes are

*Removing and re-adding several boards, ultimately settling on removing /tv/, /giga/, and /r9k/
*Adding 1 new board, /incel/. Containment board. widely considered one of the worst boards on the website.
*Making the bans page public, undoing all previous bans
*Several cosmetic changes
* A 4chan style blotter
*Several reworks of the rules, which were very unpopular at first, but after several Q&A threads he settled on a more acceptable version
*Attempting and failing to contain all namefag drama to the incel board, giving up after complaints of censorship
*Hiring several controversial moderators
*Deleting the stickies on almost every board
*Briefly reducing /soy/ to 10 pages, wiping almost every thread made prior to that day. Insisted on keeping this but later relented and restored all 40 pages, then later changing /soy/ to 25 pages
*Adding a hidden /test/ board - which contained strange, encoded messages and images. When soyteens discovered this he made the board require a password
*Firing sobot (former moderator) whom he had hired in the beginning of his adminship

====State of the Sharty livestream====
<small>Main article:</small> [[Soyjak.party/SOTS Transcript|<small>SOTS Transcript</small>]][[File:Kuzstreamcover.png|thumb|Kuz spoke with an unusual accent and soft tone, some mix between the Southern US and Russian, likely a result of his illegal immigration to America in 2014.]]
On August 24th, at 8PM EST, a mod announced kuz had returned from his trip and would be making a live appearance, the first one since 2019 according to kuz.<ref>https://web.archive.org/web/20220824231841/https://soyjak.party/suggest//res/506.html</ref> The thread was met with excitement. At 8PM, kuz, as fortold, arrived on time. A sticky was made on soy which surpassed 1000 replies in about an hour.<ref>[https://archive.ph/wip/UBmq2 https://archive.ph/UBmq2]</ref> Kuz answered questions for roughly the same amount of time. Though not much relating to the sharty itself was discussed, the stream provided some key insights into kuz and his plans for the site at the time. Notably, a plan to "step away" from the internet until Christmas. He also discussed a photoshoot at the bequest of some posters in the thread.

The stream, albeit abbreviated, received substantial attention despite being sudden and unplanned, with about 298 concurrent viewers at its peak.

On December 17, Kuz did another livestream, which was entitled "KUZSTREAM 2." This livestream was a bit higher profile due to Kuz's possible acquisition of 4chan, which Kuz said was still in the early phases, if it was to even happen. Kuz also announced that he was finalizing acquiring two other sites, which he did not name. Kuz also addressed some of the recent changes to the 'party, such as jump.kolyma.net links and the new report feature.<ref>https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VkpXI0a5eNI</ref>

==== Cyprus ====
On September 1st, 2022, kuz departed for Cyprus until December, giving the site to 3 anonymous moderators during his absence. Though he returned early due to violent political turbulence on the sharty.

===== ''Selam from Lefkosia'' =====
On September 17th, kuz made his first appearance since leaving, making 3 posts in a failGET thread.<ref>https://archive.ph/zmFM9#1111563</ref>

==== Disillusionment ====
[[File:50k-offer.png|thumb|''An offer to purchase Soyjak.party'']]
On September 15th, a user from /suggest/ offered kuz $4,500 for the site. But later, upped his bid to $50,000 after users told him 4.5k was nothing to kuz.<ref>https://archive.ph/v9ufe</ref> While kuz never publicly responded to the offer, the Chud told the users he had correspondence with Kolyma employees, however, nothing ever came of it.<ref>https://archive.ph/v9ufe#4609</ref>

However it seems the offer still made it to kuz's desk, as during a rare email response, kuz told one fan that he was "disappointed" in how the site viewed him and doesnt think its enjoyable to run it. The user posted this email to the boards and the thread quickly ballooned with speculation.
[[File:Kuz-email.png|thumb|Kuz's response to a chuds email]]
In addition to this, kuz's final posts before his 5 month departure were angry complaints at how difficult it was to please soyteens. Kuz also seems to have adopted a cynical view of moderating the site, "no matter what I do, someone will complain", leading to moderation being somewhat incosistent and kuz's growing irritation with the userbase, leading to him handing it off to a Manager and refusing public comments.

As of the writing of this article, kuz has scantly been seen in public. Appearing during a brief Q&A on the turkish website "Kereste".<ref>https://archive.ph/DcSix</ref> and most recently, greeting Chuds in a failget thread.[https://archive.ph/zmFM9#1111563]