Sage Nadia

Sage Nadia, pronounced Sah-Geh Nah-Dee-Ah, is the moniker used by the former administrator, now owner, of the fchan imageboard. Due to an ongoing misunderstanding regarding her name, she currently goes simply as Nadia(ナディア). Her avatar is a Scorpiontaur hybrid.

She is a lesbian who openly dislikes porn, and is known for her no-nonsense, abrasive, direct and very iron handed method of administration, and for her respect for most artists, furry or not, and her disrespect for everyone else.

Sage
According to Nadia, the term Sage in her original handle has nothing to do with the herb, or with being wise.

It is actually derived from the imageboard term Sage, which is normally typed into the e-mail field in an imageboard's "e-mail" or "link" fields and is used by posted to prevent a thread from being bumped to the front page of the imageboard (it comes from the Japanese term 下げる, pronounced sah-geh-roo, which means "to lower").

Sage Nadia=Ayukawataur?
It has been suggested by some that Sage Nadia is also the administrator of FurBid, Ayukawataur. This was allegedly proven by Vivisector.org moderator Kindrift, who released an image comparing Nadia's IP in posts made in the Vivisector forums (all of which were deleted once this very issue was raised) to IP data discovered in the WikiFur IRC channel pertaining to Ayukawataur.

Kindrift has claimed that the image was not edited in any way beyond the necessary highlighting. In either case, neither Nadia or Ayukawataur have commented as to the validity of this accusation.

Nadia, fchan and the ideal image board
Initially, Nadia started out as a poster on fchan; when then-administrator Sage Freehaven was forced to give up control of fchan due to being unable to have regular Internet access in June of 2005, Freehaven named Xenofur and a volunteering Nadia as his administrative replacements (Xenofur was already a moderator at the time after having helped Freehaven fix one of its major server crashes).

After Freehaven was able to regain some semblance of Internet access a few months later, he contacted Nadia and told her that he was no longer sure when he would have full-time Internet access, and if he did get full-time Internet access back, it would likely be at the cost of the amount of free time he'd have to moderate fchan. It was at that point that he handed full administrative control of fchan over to Sage Nadia. Since then, Freehaven has regained full-time Internet access, and expressed little-to-no interest in rejoining the moderation team of fchan in any capacity. He has gone on record as stating that this is, in part, because he would not wish to be associated with the reputation the site or the moderation team garnered in his absence.

Nadia as fchan administrator
Once Nadia was named the full-time administrator of fchan, she began to change the board to fit a very specific vision; To try to create a *chan-style board that could survive as a respected and useful part of the community. During her administration, the DNP grew by leaps and bounds. As of this writing, the fchan DNP lists over 221 individual artists and 15 websites, one of which is only partially present, resulting in a larger appearance than it actually has.

Her initial plan upon taking control of fchan was to initiate a series of events which would cause the community to implode upon itself. This plan lasted less than a month, when she came to the conclusion that if fchan died, it would only be replaced by many more clones (ironically enough, most of the furry-based imageboards that have cropped up since Nadia gained control of fchan were created specifically because fchan didn't die). As long as she had fchan, she would be able to shape the future of how an imageboard could be effective and eventually accepted within the community as a whole.

She then created a threefold plan to ensure this would happen:

Domination
Step one was to dominate the boards -- to create a hatred of the users toward her while elevating the users' love for her assistant Xenofur. This included popularizing the DNP and making it openly available to any and all artists who wished to be placed on it. In this manner, she was also able to target who in the community would be least likely to accept the system and learn what changes were needed to build a better imageboard. One of her major changes was the removal of user rights to post non-constructive criticism, a decision which led to the banning of many "trolls".

Retirement
Step two was to disappear from the community eye -- as part of this step, Nadia retired from active adminship. In doing so, she passed the job of Administrator over to her assistant, Xenofur. For a brief time, she remained on as an adviser/ninja-moderator, but remained hidden from public view. She eventually removed herself from the public eye almost entirely, remaining active on fchan only in an advisory capacity to Xenofur. She thus was allowed to stay in fchan's administrative IRC channel. Additionally, due to the low reliability of the fchan server and the low availability of persons with the knowledge and ability to bring it back up in emergency cases, Xenofur allowed her to retain root login, on the condition she only acts in cases of functional failure to threat to the server. He never informed Raven or any other member of this fact, due to his knowledge of Raven's inability to accept anything else than absolutely clear ranks and power levels. The userbase of fchan was not informed as the persons with server admin access for development and maintenance reasons were not generally made public, unless they chose so.

Return
Step three was to return the board to the initial model. On December 16, 2007 Nadia seized control of the fchan server, locking everyone (including the owner of the server) out at the root level. The next morning she returned Xenofur's access and returned access to the server owner a week later. The delay here being caused by the owner looking at the situation with indifference. The events leading up to her decision to initiate step three have been speculated on, due to a statement of an underinformed close acquaintance of Raven. Site administrator Xenofur claimed in February 2008 that things happened as follows:

Despite these claims, things have changed four months later without an update on the frontpage. (Due to laziness on Xenofur's part.) Nadia recently posted on the site's discussion board, using the red "administrator" text for her name, declaring that incest threads were now temporarily forbidden to be posted, due to the drama and rule circumvention springing up around them. 

Nadia's viewpoint
Nadia made the following comment early on in her adminship of fchan:

Recently, in the discussion section for this article, Nadia finally revealed the meaning behind this statement: