Board Thread:Shingeki no Kyojin Wiki/@comment-424719-20150404012154/@comment-424719-20150411021225

I apologize to this community for my absence from the wiki and this proposal, it was never my intention but alas, school has a way of doing these things. With that being said, I wanted to take this opportunity to quickly address a couple of points.

1. I only do these proposals when the lines of communication become severed or unworkable. Manuel has countless time indicated he doesn’t like talking to me, so once he sent me the email and announced his intention to not promote me and keep his ill-gained position, there was no other choice. Same with Hugo and Neo’s proposals, they wouldn’t discuss the matter and thus this became the only option.

2. No Manuel, hfc2x did violate a rule, the blocking policy. By indefinitely blocking Gourgeist, even for the short duration, he violated it. He also violated the bureaucrat nomination process when he promoted Neo. The rest of his abuses could sparingly be called rule breaking but the point is we didn’t want to have someone like that in his position. Someone who would hate on his two best contributors and divide them. Who would treat the wiki unprofessionally by blocking a user randomly and without warning, along with allowing personal issues to interfere with his position. Nobody would appoint someone like that to that bureaucrat so there was no reason he needed to say. My personal feelings have nothing to do with what I did, I don’t allow them to. Just as I continue to call you a friend and treat you respectfully.

3. You may not have meant it as a threat, but as the person on the receiving end I have the right to

4. Yes, I tend to argue and discuss things a lot, because it leads to compromise and a better way forward. You don’t shut people out just because you don’t enjoy talking to them, that is no way to act as a ‘bureaucrat’. As long as there is injustice on this wiki I intend to be here to stop it, as long as it takes. If that involves countless conversations then so be it, I’m willing.

5. My block was because I posted screenshots, Neo, as the blocker said that and you don’t have the right to interpret it. If you feel like my demotion was justified than fine but all these other reasons are not why Neo did it, he expressly laid out why he did it. Don’t try and put words in his mouth, these reasons are your opinion on why I deserved it. What you seem to be saying is that you have no problem with Neo, as an illegal bureaucrat, saying that posting screenshots is a violation of the terms of use and blocking people for it. He didn’t block me for all these reasons.

6. Yes, I do have a square interpretation of the rules because that is what is necessary. When communities, which we are, start to ignore the rules and claim ‘emergencies’ you almost always wind up with a borderline dictator, as we have with Neo and you. I don’t intend that to be an insult, it is the textbook definition since you have both taken power in violation of the rules here. We don’t let people do this sort of thing, and we never will. Be promoted fairly, or not at all.

7. Gourgeist was blocked by Hfc2x, not you. I am allowed to speculate on your motives for demoting him and my speculation led me to this conclusion.



You know who has broken the rules Manuel? You. You are an illegal bureaucrat and admitted that to me on Skype, clear as day you told me that your position is illegal. “First, I recognize that my position is illegal. In fact, I don't want to continue as admin forever, I asked for the rights only temporarily” You are also an illegal admin, you never had the ability to apply for that position, Neo didn’t have the authority to promote you, at all. You also ignored my advice about the blocking policy and have just been blocking people without warning, and for an unlimited amount of time. Just above this comment Manuel says that hfc2x never broke any rule? So either he has forgotten about what hfc2x did, outlined above, or considers what he did to not be a violation of the rules.

This discussion is about Manuel and his violation of our rules. I asked him to step down multiple times, waited patiently, and became his friend. Then, he told me that he wasn’t going to step down despite admitting that his position is illegal. So here we have an illegal bureaucrat telling us “My position is illegal, I recognize this, but I’m not going to step down.” That is the mentality of a dictator and not someone we want as a bureaucrat.