Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-4588264-20160721163026

Hey, guys.

As many of you are aware, tomorrow the voting thread ends as to whether I am demoted or not. I want to say something one last time before it ends so all of you may reconsider your opinions or choices on the several matters discussed on the thread. I have already gone through this with the admins, but I think addressing this to the community is something I want to do as this is a community vote.

First off, I want to go through each of the reasons for my demotions listed:

1) He doesn't actively help with the community, such as with YoU or stuff like that.

While yes, I was late with this blog in particular, I don't believe I have been inactive in my wiki responsibilities. I still monitor the wiki everyday, and there has only been one occurrence where I have missed a Year of Unity blog. Otherwise, quite frankly, I feel I have done a lot in regards to supporting the Year of Unity. Usually I'm not one to rub my achievements in other people's faces, but I am proud of my contributions to the new Kindness Policy, as well as the wiki additions such as polls. Keep in my mind, the policy was made 2 weeks ago or so.

2) This one has been marked off due to misunderstandings as well as misinformation. However, to those who are still wondering about the situation, I would like to thoroughly go through all that had happened and explain in depth one final time to the community.

My brother, Johnnymacnissan, decided to join the wiki and occasionally joke with a couple of users including myself. As he was new to the wiki, I had to keep watch of his edits, undoing them occasionally and instructing him off-wiki on what proper edits to make. Along the way, of course, he wasn't exactly the best at staying within the rules. He also had intended to go on chat, and to do this, he needed 25 edits, so he began a new series. The page itself was a stub page, and he used it to edit upon multiple times. That was when he was blocked by Mig. I then proceeded to come on to chat and talk to Mig about this, as I believed he only deserved a chat ban, since he was only editing to get on to chat in the first place (of course, this is not how it works, I realize this now). I was angered by the fact that he refused to discuss his decision of blocking him with me, and when he finally decided to talk about it, I eventually convinced him to lower it to a chat ban. Afterwards, it eventually rolled out into an argument in which I did things I'm not proud of in anger, such as inappropriately imitating him when I felt he had mocked me by laughing in my face as I tried to discuss my brother's ban and said "kys" which I took into extreme offense. The scolding he mentions, or when I said I'll do it myself, was when I said he doesn't deserve a block and he continued to tell me he would handle it himself without any of my consent. Overall, I contributed in ways I really shouldn't have, but I also felt mocked and not listened to.

3) That he has been extremely and unfairly lax with some issues with some users.

I agree, I did not handle the situation with Johnnymacnissan properly, but again this was my first time handling a situation like this. I've never been instructed on how to handle situations like this, but now that I see it's gotten out of hand, I can put a stop to it. However, other than this situation by itself, I can say that I have treated users well and fairly. I have always taken it upon myself to treat every user with respect, but also live up to my responsibility and handle the situation to the fullest. This was a one time mistake.

4) That he is quite late with wiki events (i.e. Fanon Con).

Again, this was a one time mistake. I have hosted and helped with several Fanon cons, but last time in particular, I failed to do my part. The day prior, Mig had my position, but he was unable to do it, so I was given the position in a day's advance, but I turned out to be unavailable for the event. This is the only time I have been late with wiki events like this.

5) Personal issues get in the way of his judgment.

While I failed to do my job with Johnny and follow the guidelines on when to block a user, this was another one time example. I haven't done this before, and no other personal issues have gotten in the way of my job. My brother was a brand new situation, I didn't know how to deal with it, but now I do. I've never had this problem previously other than this.

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Overall, as you can see, most of these examples are built on the one mistake I made with my brother that led into several. Some are related to failing to miss a job, but those were one time examples. Most of these are in plural form and they should only be in singular because I have only done these mistakes once.

I'm not perfect, I'm not always going to be the admin that's expected. Like from these examples, those are my failing moments. But like everyone else, we all have failing moments. If I'm not mistaken, the thread that's listed right below mine by Yopo himself is a perfect example of what I'm trying to say. The thing is, I haven't done these mistakes multiple times. These are simple mistakes that can be fixed easily. The examples given are each based on a mistake that I've made. I don't think I'm a bad admin, and honestly, I don't believe I deserve to be demoted.

Alongside that, I was never consulted about these problems besides that I made these. Reading the demotion thread was the first time when I realized I've messed up in total. I wish someone told me that I needed to do better before the demotion thread was put up. Mig told me that people don't like me as admin, and that there's been lots of complaints, but I wish I was told what to fix instead of learning it when people are choosing to demote me or not. And whenever I do have more problems, just let me know. Feel free to message me, like it says on my userpage. If you've got something you need to tell me, or a personal concern, let me know! I'll be there, I'm on every single day!

Thank you to all those who defended my rights as admin. To those voted against, I totally understand that you were expressing your opinions. But I hope this clears things up.

Whatever the choice tomorrow, I said what I had to say.

Thanks, guys. 