Forum:Proposal to Remove NeoSuperior

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Note from the admin: Since NeoSuperior has retired by himself, this discussion is now pointless. Any topic related to this subject, open a new thread.

Fellow Shingeki no Kyojin Wikia users, I am back. To jump right out of the gate I am calling for this community to remove NeoSuperior for the following abuses. This will follow the exact same rules as the vote regarding hfc2x found here [1]. By that same token, if the community decides to demote NeoSuperior from his illegally obtained position, a second poll will go up asking the community how long he should be blocked for, if at all.

1. He was incorrectly promoted during an incredibly turbulent time under sketchy concerns - Last Friday (20th), Hfc2x promoted NeoSuperior to bureaucrat. At the time, Neo did not qualify for the position as per our bureaucrat nomination guidelines [2] By those same binding rules, the process for promoting a bureaucrat was completely and totally ignored. This is a total fault on hfc2x, but it also falls on NeoSuperior. I asked him, repeatedly, to step down from his position and he refused. By these actions I contend that NeoSuperior is an illegal bureaucrat and needs to immediately revert to his rightfully gained position of admin. At the same time, he should promote me back to my admin position that he took away from me wrongly.

2. He took power away from this community - The discussion regarding hfc2x was started Thursday at 5:00 AST, and would expire exactly one week from that time. Before the time expired, NeoSuperior took the power away from the community, declared the vote illegal, and closed it. He completely ignored the votes already counted even though Wikia Staff told me to run things that way. There was also to be a second poll asking the community, the ones who are really in charge, how long hfc2x should be blocked for. That discussion was completely stamped out and never even allowed to happen. In fact, hfc2x was simply allowed to resign from his position in what NeoSuperior admitted was a deal worked out behind the scenes. Clearly, NeoSuperior has no regard for this community since he has actively taken power away from them and used it to his own benefit.

3. He demoted and blocked me for incredibly poor reasons - I never did anything to warrant what happened to me, NeoSuperior demoted and blocked me just before issuing his closing statement on the proposal to remove hfc2x. I was, and still am, among the most capable contributors to this wiki and have been doing a lot of the work on this wiki for a long time. I was stripped of my fairly obtained rank of admin and blocked, for 3 months. Neo claimed this was because I posted screenshots from private conversations, showing that he has no idea why Gourgiest was blocked. He was blocked for forging screenshots, none of mine were forged. Further, I made it very clear that I didn't want to post them and only did when my character was attacked by Gourgiest. By blocking me, Neo insured that no one was left on the wiki who could oppose what he was doing. This was an unfair block, issues for the wrong reasons, and done by an illegal bureaucrat.

If NeoSuperior chooses to step down and promote me back to my old rank of admin, then the second poll asking how long he should be blocked for will go up immediately. I had my issues with hfc2x and brought them to the people of this wiki and was blocked for it. Discussion was completely removed. In my own opinion, NeoSuperior has committed far worse acts than hfc2x and I would ask that the community remove him, and after that, block him.

If you feel cheated out of a chance to block hfc2x in line with what was originally in the proposal, then you can do so here [3]. This is where the discussion about blocking him was originally going to go before it was completely and illegally shut down by NeoSuperior.

Vote Counter

This is where I will keep track of the votes, please only 'vote' in a reply in the discussion section. After that I will add your vote to this counter.

Should NeoSuperior be removed from their position?

Yes, they should be removed.

--PrelateZeratul (talk) 21:32, March 1, 2015 (UTC)
--Do1ball (talk) 00:40, March 2, 2015 (UTC)
--User:JinxTheFunhouse (User talk:JinxTheFunhouse 02:34, March 3, 2015 (UTC)
--User:Andress952 (User talk:Andress952 15:04, March 17, 2015 (UTC)
--Raposu (talk) 21:51, March 17, 2015 (UTC)
Emperor Jarjarkine Château Utgarde 20:05, March 19, 2015 (UTC)

No, they should not be removed.

Discussion

I have been a casual contributor to this wiki for only a short time, and I'm not consistent yet in what I wish to do with some pages, but with that being said, I voted on the last discussion to remove hfc2x and did not deter my vote, even after the evidence posted by PrelateZeratul was posted. Although I am a casual, I still personally feel that the rules of this wiki should be followed. Although NeoSuperior has yet to respond to these new allegations, for the time being I will side with PrelateZeratul given his commitment and the information he has posted regarding this and the previous discussions topic. The last topic in particular was wrongfully shut down I feel. Do1ball (talk) 00:39, March 2, 2015 (UTC)

I will list these facts in my defense:

1. I got my bureaucrat rights out of an emergency. It's obvious that you were "involved" in this dispute, but were not self-critical, did not provide the context or the reasons why you think Hfc2x suppoedly treated you and Gourgeist as you claim he did, neither did you describe your own involvment unbiased. All these aspects indicate that you were not in the position to host a discussion about the accused party to be demoted. You also indicated from the beginning that you would "post the conversations, if someone does not believe the accusations", which indicated that you "maintain privacy" out of superficial "goodwill" instead of actually respecting the privacy. You either respect privacy or not. Breaking the privacy of an involved party just to rise your own credibility toward an uninvolved party, while talking about "maintaining privacy" is a very shallow cover for the fact that you did not mind publicizing conversations with Hfc2x, Gourgeist and possibly completely unrelated parties, without their explicit consent in the first place. There is also the fact that you did not even consider trying to reconcile within the confines of the wiki itself. Instead the first thing you explicitly did in the confines of the wiki was proposing the removal of Hfc2x, while as I explained, only having a shallow excuse of maintaining privacy, while manipulating the community to blindly believe you, because you were the one to "talk first". If you really had the community in mind with this, you would first try to actually involve the community in the matters you want to improve (as I explained in the other discussion about the Manual of Style), but you did no such attempts at all. If anyone thinks my reasoning is flawed, then I'd gladly listen. I am open for constructive critisicsm.

2. Since Hfc2x retired from his position, the other thread had fulfilled its purpose (demoting Hfc2x or not) and had no reason for being open anymore. I didn't even actually have the obligation to mention the reason for your block at all there, as that is not done in other cases of blocks either and there is no reason for PrelateZeratul to gain special treatment in that regard, but since I thought it is directly related to it, I mentioned it to avoid unnecessary confusion about it.

3. I don't know any cases of blocks being decided by vote, neither do I belive that you have been told to organize something like that by the wikia staff. You either block someone for a misconduct, or not. It's the same as law enforcement. I don't know about other people, but as for me, I never witnessed the verdict of criminals being given by a majority vote of the state's public.

4. After the last discussion no one objected to my decision to block you, neither did anyone object the fact that I became a bureaucrat. The only thing that happened was someone vandalizing my User page, with the comment "Justice. Ban me if you want, good bye." I think it was done by someone using a sockpuppet account and I think it was one out of two people who I suspect, but since that is unrelated, I keep further speculation regarding that matter to myself.

I also want to mention that I remove the "poll" part out of this, since it was explicitly asked not to make a poll. I will only add it in, if a wikia staff member explicitly asks me to. Your argument to make one out of convienience makes the whole point of banning it moot.

Last but not least I want to mention something here that I thought should be obvious, but it seems it's not. Not realizing it is my mistake and I apologize for it, so here it is:

I banned PrelateZeratul for breaking the Terms of Use. I am mainly refering to following lines:

User Conduct

You agree that you will not use the Service in any manner that is contrary to the Wikia Community Guidelines, which may be updated from time to time. Without limiting the foregoing, you also agree not to use the Service to:

[...]

Post or transmit any content that is obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party, or content that contains homophobia, ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, or encourages criminal conduct;

[...]

Post any illegal or unauthorized content or use for any illegal or unauthorized purposes;

[...]

You further agree:

[...]

Not to upload, post, email, transmit or otherwise make available any content that infringes any patent, trademark, trade secret, copyright or other proprietary rights of any party;

[...]

Not to access, collect or store personal data about other users in connection with the prohibited conduct and activities described in this “User Conduct” section.

Should anyone consider anything in my reasoning to be incorrect, feel free to correct me.

--- NeoSuperior (talk) 00:42, March 2, 2015 (UTC)

Alright Neo, I'm glad you responded to my comment and are taking this seriously. However, do not remove the vote counter. You were already warned on your talk page to not interfere with community votes. The poll does nothing but make it easier to find where people stand, no one is allowed to vote without posting a discussion post first, which is exactly what wikia staff told me to do. I have re-added it, and if you take it down again then I will message wikia staff and get them to weigh in.

1. There is no provision for an emergency proposal in our nomination of bureaucrat page. You have absolutely no right to go around those protocols, none at all. Further, the 'emergency' you describe is incredibly subjective. Hfc2x was not going to be removed for another 6 days, he could have easily maintained his position. Or, as I made clear to you, he could have stepped down and left us with basically no bureaucrat for 1 week, after which we could have the community decide the new bureaucrat, which is how it should be. It is not my job to speculate on why hfc2x acted the way he did. I do not and will not speculaate, all I provided was facts and allowed people to draw their own conclusions. Further, your opinion on if I am in the right position to host a discussion is, completely irrelevant. Any user can make a community vote in this manner, these wikias are run by their communities, a fact you all too often ignore. In regards to me and my privacy intentions, you are doing nothing but speculating. I really had no desire to post private conversations, and made it clear several times that I didn't want to. I urged hfc2x several times to accept the truth of what we both knew, not force me to do it. Even then, I still considered not posting them but I was left with no other choice when Gourgiest posted a false screenshot which, if left unproven, would have made me out to be a liar. I am not one and make every effort to speak the truth, something that Gourgiest attempted to conceal. Also as already addressed I do mind posting private screenshots, since I made every conceivable effort to not. I never manipulated the community to blindly believe me, I challenge you to show me one example where I lied or manipulated anyone. Anything I have posted is the truth. As I keep saying, this discussion is run the way wikia staff told me to run it, that fact that you don't like the format is completely irrelevant. Lastly, blocking me and refusing all contact is not being open to discussion and constructive criticism. Further, protecting the hfc2x proposal is not being open either.

2. If you check what was in the proposal before you took it down prematurely, you will see that it included a clause in case hgc2x resigned. It stated that the first discussion would end and the second would go up asking people if he should be blocked, and for how long. In addition to ending the first one (who knows who wanted to vote in that last stretch) you did not put up the second one. No, you had no obligation to mention why you blocked me. That is irrelevant to this discussion, so I have no clue why you posted it, but I'm not going to speculate on your motives.

3. Here is yet another case of you deciding something on your own and ignoring the community. Again, it is irrelevant what you think about blocking someone with a vote. I consider it far more fair for a high-profile user like a bureaucrat, then just leaving it up to one user which you did. It gives them a chance to defend themselves and appeal for lenience in their block. Or, to convince people that they don't deserve to be blocked at all. You let the people decide, not one user. As hfc2x tried to explain, bureaucrats are not bosses of the wiki, they are users trusted to have a few extra buttons. Stop acting like you are in charge of this wiki or the boss, you're not. Also, if you want an example of a vote being taken to block, here's one [4]

4. The absence of evidence is not the evidence of absence. You blocked a user who tried to open discussion and out the problems of our wiki while closing down the forum where you announced my ban. It makes perfect sense to me that no one would publicly oppose what you did. As for the user who violated your user page, I have no idea who that was but I was following the wiki at the time. I wanted to revert it but obviously couldn't due to my ban. That user was not me or anyone I know, they are completely unknown to me.

I contend that I violated no terms of use, and am welcome to have that conversation with you, since I don't stamp out community discussion. And if I did, which I'm not conceding that I did in any way, shape or form, I think a warning would have been more appropriate. Also, the block you did was illegal, you are not a legal bureaucrat on this wiki.

If you are so innocent and have done nothing wrong Neo, then I challenge you to step down from bureaucrat and promote me back to admin. At that point, both of us will apply for bureaucrat and allow the community, the ones with real power, to decide. Not a back room deal with a bureaucrat who was in the middle of a vote to remove him. Speaking of which, you came out against behind the scenes administering but the 'deal' you worked out with hfc2x was done behind the scenes, which you admitted to in the final post of the hfx2c proposal.--PrelateZeratul (talk) 01:43, March 2, 2015 (UTC)

Just to be clear, I wasn't aware I needed to manually place my vote in for the last removal thread..... That being said, I don't think NeoSuperior should be removed. After reading what they wrote, I don't think PrelateZeratul should be blocked. But I agree with them being demoted, as I originally wrote in the first removal thread. I'm also bothered that you are yet again trying to remove yet another member from the wikia. :/ I don't know who vandalized NeoSuperior's page, but I am the user that reverted it. I just keep forgetting to log back in. I am also bothered that only a couple of people even bothered to vote, and based on those few people a decision was about to be made. Something that supposedly affects the entire snk community should not be decided by a few people. EternalLocket (talk) 23:43, March 2, 2015 (UTC)

Well Locket, I do find it very unfortunate that so few of us vote. However, our wiki is not particularly large and such is the reality of our situation. I really dislike having to make these proposals, but there is a need for them. As I have stated from the very beginning, I prefer to solve disputes through open dialogue and discussion. NeoSuperior removed all notion of that when I was blocked from the wiki without any warning or a good reason. My only interest is in seeing the right thing be done, in justice. The indisputable fact is that Neo was made a bureaucrat in complete violation of our policies for choosing bureaucrats. We can't just ignore the rules and have one user selectively follow them, they must be followed. Where the rules are violated, we punish the people who do it; this is the reason vandals are blocked. It is also indisputable that Neo closed a community discussion early and made the decision for the community, in complete violation of what Wikia Staff told me. He also ignored the latter half of the poll that blocks hfc2x, citing the fact that he has 'never heard of things done that way'. Do you really think the wiki can properly function if people are wrongfully put in their position, close down community votes to remove people, and then block the person who did it? These community votes and open discussion forums are the right of all Wikia users, they serve as a check to ensure that bureaucrats are held accountable with their extra functions. If you take them away then there is no way to punish bureaucrats who break the rules. If our nomination for bureaucrat means nothing and can be ignored, you can apply the exact same logic to our rules regarding vandals. And I don't think any of us want to do that. --PrelateZeratul (talk) 00:13, March 3, 2015 (UTC)

While I do believe in justice and doing the right thing. I still feel the original removal thread was unnecessary despite what the wikia staff told you. Because as far as I was concerned all points made, except for maybe one, were all personal matters and had no place in this wikia. But like I said, I don't think you should have been blocked. But I do think you should have been demoted. And if NeoSuperior's promotion was against the rules then they should be demoted to their original position before all this started. And I'm sure we're large enough to carry out a decent vote that's supposed to affect everyone. EternalLocket (talk) 00:48, March 3, 2015 (UTC)

If you check my post that is exactly what I requested NeoSuperior do, demote himself to admin and promote me to admin as I was. At that point, we will let the community pick the new bureaucrat, which is exactly how our rules work. Even though I don't agree, I understand how you viewed the issues with hfc2x as personal matters. However, can you contend that what has happened here is a personal issue? NeoSuperior refused to step down from his position despite me asking him to several times. He refused to have any further discussion. He ended the proposal early and completely ignored the second one. That is in violation of what wikia staff told me, and it goes against the idea of the community having the power. He also blocked me for 3 months and removed me of my fairly obtained rank for posting screenshots. I pleaded with hfc2x to not force me to post them, and I still didn't want to. However, when Gourgiest falsified a screenshot I felt I had no other choice. Are screenshots posted in self defence when the user clearly didn't want to grounds for removal and a 3 month block? In no sense of the word is what's happened here 'personal issues'. --PrelateZeratul (talk) 01:18, March 3, 2015 (UTC)

No, I mean you should keep your demotion. As I feel that's what should have happened during the hfc2x removal thread. But NeoSuperior should also be demoted to their previous rank if their promotion violated any rules. So far I'm not sure how I feel about what's now going on between you and Neo. Just gonna start shortening names when I reply here because they're too long to keep writing over and over. Fell free to do the same to my name, it doesn't bother me. I can't say for sure if the first removal thread was ended early, as I wasn't around to see it end. But I feel the second thread was unnecessary. Blocking someone who resigned because of personal matters between them and another member. None of which seems to have taken place on the wikia seems unnecessary. Neither of you were forced to post anything, since I'm sure no one's in your homes making post things you've prepared, but supposedly didn't want to post. That being said, I did ask for evidence instead of just blindly voting like the others. And based on that evidence I felt you both should be demoted until you all worked things out. As for the block, I said I don't agree with it. But if you've been blocked for 3 months how are you here now? Surely 3 months hasn't passed already?! @_@ EternalLocket (talk) 01:57, March 3, 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for letting my shorten your name Locket, makes this a lot easier :P Feel free to do the same with mine or just call me Jesse, I'm cool with either. I don't agree with me being demoted for the hfc2x proposal thread. I continue to believe that those were not personal issues. A bureaucrat who refuses to promote people because he doesn't like them is a wikia issue that could impact all of us. I don't want to set up a precedent where people are afraid to make discussion posts and are worried about getting blocked for doing them. Everyone should be free to bring up issues. I realize the enormous problems with behind the scenes administering and am now 100% against it. You can check when I made the hfc2x proposal thread and then check the history for when Neo closed it, it was before the expiry time, a fragrant abuse. Also, I posted the discussion about blocking hfc2x because it was originally called for in the first proposal before Neo destroyed it, and I still believe the actions he did constitute a discussion about blocking him. If the community, the users with true power, decided not to block him then I would be absolutely fine with that. I will not infringe their judgement or take away their rights/power as Neo did. As for my 3 month block issued for poor reason by an illegal bureaucrat, I spoke with the Wikia staff. A user named SemanticDrifter left a messaged on Neo's wall warning him not to interfere with community votes, which he ignored since he removed the vote counter here. They also unblocked me.--PrelateZeratul (talk) 02:07, March 3, 2015 (UTC)

It is shameful to see people with a large number of edits and a history of contribution on the wiki be so abusive of power, both NeoSuperior and hfc2x are clearly demonstrating this. PrelateZeratul is asking the community for an opinion on blocking or removing violators. NeoSuperior and hfc2x have attempted to evade the threat but simply blocking PrelateZeratul and removing any trace of his community discussion. This wiki is open to edits from the community, as it is a community run wiki, there are certain higher ups. Regardless of standing the community still holds a valid opinion in changes regarding the wiki. NeoSuperior's clear abuse of power shows someone unfit to have a high standing position let alone run the wiki. I strongly agree with the notion to demote him for his abuse of power and block him for a period of time due to his wrongful action on the wiki. --JinxTheFunhouse (talk) 02:34, March 3, 2015 (UTC)

Although he did originally say he would not ever promote you. He saw the "error of his ways" so to speak. And according to him, based on your contributions and Gourgeist's talk with him, he changed his mind. Other than that I see nothing that suggests his actions are so terrible that he should be blocked after being demoted. The fact that everyone is making a big deal about these positions is what probably makes it worse for me. We can all pretty much do the exact same things. With higher positions getting slightly better "perks". The whole thing between you and hfc2x was almost completely a personal matter. As almost none of it had anything to do with the wiki. And I feel there was more going on than what was said in the thread. You all don't seem to like each other much, yet yall do all this talking outside of the wiki. Even up to the day I asked for proof two of you were still in contact with each other. :/

I see no problem with a discussion about other users that do wrong. But I don't know, it seems like these "discussions" could be done better. These seem more like trials with community input added. :/

Jinx you should put "and" instead of "or". As Prelate intends to not only remove said users but block them as well. That being said, hfc2x didn't appear to be evading anything. Prelate made the removal thread, a couple people commented. Then he commented later on. Not liking someone else is never a reason for removal and/or block. And the fact that he listened to reason when another higher ranking member spoke about Prelate shows he is not so set in his ways that he would let the wiki suffer because of his own personal feelings towards someone else.

As for Neo, I feel a demotion is necessary. I don't feel they were acting in a malicious way. But more than likely just wanted this to be over. I mean the guy already demoted himself, he was probably going to be less active from now on anyways. The fact that when anyone does something wrong and we go straight to removal and block threads seems very standoffish to me. Why would anyone want to stay here if stating you don't like someone outside of the wiki is likely to get you demoted and blocked. Not to mention some of these edits lately are at the bare minimum of contribution. I mean someone made a Mr. Ackerman and Mrs. Ackerman page with just a small sentence there. I have no problem with those pages being added, but was a little content too much to ask. I'd rather not block all of our active high quality contributors just because they have problems getting along outside of the wiki. EternalLocket (talk) 15:01, March 3, 2015 (UTC)

Well Locket, thank you once again for participating in community discussion and being so forward with your thoughts :) As for the blocking hfc2x discussion, it is completely a discussion. Everyone is free to contribute and are actually prohibited from voting unless they discuss. I still strongly feel that hfc2x should be blocked for his abuse/harassment off the wiki and the actions he took as a bureaucrat. You can't refuse to promote people because you don't like them, you just can't. I appreciate that the 'saw the error of his ways' but that alone is not sufficient for me to change my opinion of him. Hfc2x has been insulting me as long as I have known him and has never once apologized, that is not consistent with the atmosphere we want to foster here. I'm not sure what you are looking for in regards to proof of us talking? hfc2x and I don't speak to each other anymore and we didn't for nearly a month when I posted my original proposal. We did have a brief conversation with NeoSuperior on Friday but that has been it. If you are looking for proof of what I said they are in screenshots of skype conversations that NeoSuperior removed from the hfc2x proposal thread.

I'm not sure trial is the proper word for it, I still prefer discussion. If I felt the abuses I have brought here could be dealt with solely by discussion then I would opt for that approach. However, NeoSuperior is an illegal bureaucrat and abused that power while refusing to step down. I asked him multiple times and he refused every time. He also ended the discussion and would no longer speak with me on Skype. I will repeat however, that I am now completely opposed to behind the scenes adminstering.

I agree with your message to Jinx, I have problems with hfx2x but he never attempted to evade the vote or anything like that. Neo is the one who closed the community vote and banned the person responsible for creating it. I do intend to lobby for these users to be blocked because it creates an example that you can't do such abuses and expect no repercussions. However, my opinion is just one and that is why I ask the community for their input.

If you feel a demotion of Neo is necessary then I would ask that you switch your vote to being in favour of it. As for the guy who demoted himself, I'm not sure who you are referring to, Neo never did that. As I mentioned before, I don't go straight to removal and block threads, the only person to take extreme action was Neo, by shutting a vote down, stripping me of my rank, and blocking me. I have always wanted to use open dialogue and discussion in order to solve problems, that's why these last a week. hfc2x didn't just state that he didn't like me, he interfered with the function of the wikia, repeatedly abused me, and posted Skype screenshots to his twitter account. If people like that don't feel welcome here, then I chop that up as a win; we don't want those kinds of people here. Further, the fact that they are active or high quality means nothing. A rank, or higher position, is no reason to be excused from justice and accountability. A user with 10 edits should be held to the exact same degree of justice as a user with 10 000 edits. Lastly, my proposal against Neo has nothing to do with not getting along outside the wiki. The abuses he committed were all done on the wiki and are detailed above. In fact, I have only spoken to that user for a very short length of time once outside of the wiki. I would also like to draw attention to this [5] where a wikia staff member tells Neo that posting screenshots from skype is not against the terms of use, making his already illegal and poor block of me, wrong.--PrelateZeratul (talk) 15:34, March 3, 2015 (UTC)

After reading everything new that was posted, my vote will still stay to remove NeoSuperior. The conversation between PrelateZeratul and EternalLocket doesn't deter me from my own view of "justice". Given the actions that NeoSuperior took, I still feel that he should be demoted and removed. I would like to see this issue settled as quickly as possible so there can be no more internal affairs between members and we can all hopefully strive to bringing this wiki up to date. --Do1ball (talk) 19:07, March 3, 2015 (UTC)

Important Notice:
The resolution of this community discussion is postponed. The reason for that is a yet to be processed report to the wikia staff, which has direct influence on the legitimacy and outcome of this discussion. Therefore this discussion in now temporarily closed, until the report has been completely processed. For further questions contact me on my talk page. I also ask wikia staff members to either e-mail me or leaving a message on my talk page, if it is necessary or if there is a need for clarification.

---NeoSuperior (talk) 17:14, March 8, 2015 (UTC)

Hello,

It appears that several of the opinions voiced in this thread have come from the same person under various accounts, which means there is no clear consensus for any action. Wikia staff will not be intervening in this matter further, but this consensus thread should be set aside and any further, similar actions will be scrutinized very closely. --semanticdrifter (help forum | blog) 20:53, March 8, 2015 (UTC)

Hello,

To amend my previous statement, I can confirm that several of the user accounts taking part in this thread share the same IP address. It is impossible to know for sure that they are the same person, but the situation certainly undercuts any true consensus being shown in this thread, especially with such a small sample of participating users. At the end of the day, it is still up to this community how best to move forward. --semanticdrifter (help forum | blog) 23:49, March 9, 2015 (UTC)

Amendment,

I am the user accused of puppeting, and the statement is completely false. Do1bal and JinxTheFunhouse show up with the same ip because they are my brother and sister. I apologize for not revealing this, but as I said multiple times in my hfc2x proposal thread, I value privacy. These two users, along with me, are as entitled to their opinions as anyone else. They have contributed, with Jinx being 9th most in edits, and do1bal being a member of the One Oiece wikia for over a year. I feel we are all parts of the community and thus Neo should have been removed when the time expired and the three of us voted against him. Wikia staff has chosen to ignore my requests that community consensus be upheld, and you have all seen the result.

The wiki has been vandalized and no one has been blocked. A new chapter came out and we can't edit pages to let our community know because they are locked. Neo, an illegal bureaucrat, has once again taken the power away from the good people at this wiki and prevented us from doing what we love here. This is not only shameful, it needs to stop. I urge everyone to vote against Neo, take part in the discussion, and finally put this turmoil to an end. In addition to all this, you can read about all his abuses in my initial proposal below. Wikia Staff said they would uphold community consensus if more users voted. While I shouldn't have to force people to vote, we apparently do need more votes. Please help this wiki.--PrelateZeratul (talk) 02:51, March 16, 2015 (UTC)

How ironic, your brother and sister magically just happen to show up when you decide to try and vote some people out. And Jinx's edit count means almost nothing. I don't know if you've actually looked at some of them. But at least two of them are nothing more than changing which side pictures, which were already there, sit on. :/ You should know better than anyone else currently here that it's quality over quantity. I'm sure if most of my edits were simply adding pictures to the wikia I'd have 500 something edits as well.

I must say, as time goes on I am increasingly frustrated. We can manage to get people to comment about the newest chapter. Yet we can't manage to get those same people to even comment about either of these removal threads. It doesn't' help that Neo won't at least say what's keeping him from being here. Regardless, blocking the vandal won't magically keep us from being vandalized again. It's just the way these wikis work.

On top of it all, it sounds like your message to Manuel de la Fuente was somewhat of a bribe. You know, "vote this way, and you might get this in return". The very rules regarding adminship cancel them out immediately, "The user must have at least 1000 constructive mainspace edits to request admin rights." Which would put them and Neo at the same level as far as getting adminship is concerned.

Hopefully this time around we can get more people to vote. Especially since this time both users have had at least one chance to say their side before the final vote. What was done in the previous thread was horrible. And only makes things look like a conspiracy. Especially when we find out that the two users who voted in the first thread before hfc2x said his side, are your brother and sister. :/ EternalLocket (talk) 03:58, March 16, 2015 (UTC)

Yes Locket, it is quality over quantity, but Jinx has many quality edits. Doing the recent chapter summary for 67 and the blog post. Also, they did not just 'show up' they both love AoT and are just as valuable as anyone else. As I indicated to wikia staff multiple times, the three of us will do anything to prove our uniqueness. If you check the recent log, we have edited in a way that would be impossible for one person to do.

No, blocking the vandal won't stop the vandalism, but it sets an example. We prevent people from vandalizing further and send the message that when they vandalize they will be punished. We are not punishing anyone, and it is a consistent problem. Further, neos abscence doesn't allow us to update the main pages with new chapter stuff.

I wasn't trying to bribe Manuel, I was trying to ensure he helps the wiki in the best way he can. He hates vandalism and feels as I do, and the best way he can help is not becoming an admin but rather taking part in this discussion and removing Neo. Locket, why is there this double standard where you will crucify me for having my family take part or people not voting. Yet Neo has done consistently bad things and led this wiki to a horrid place. Why is he free from your criticism and I am not? I am also taking part in this discussion, Neo isn't.--PrelateZeratul (talk) 04:18, March 16, 2015 (UTC)

EternalLocket I would like to direct you to our Image Policy[6] which states, under Using an Image, that:

"Images in articles should be generally put to 200px size, unless the space in the article or other circumstances don't allow it. The side of placement should alternate from left to right (or right to left, depends on the article organization), except for the Abilities section, in which they should only be placed on the right. The description of the image (in the thumbnail) should not be ended with a fullstop."

You will notice that my edits moving these pictures were only to correct their location on the page and follow regulations. As previously mentioned I have recently written and added pictures to the recent chapter article and the recent blog post.[7] I have also added pictures and a summary to Pain and aside from creating the page itself I did the entire A Choice with No Regrets: Part One page including pictures, summary, overview, translations, and more. If you would like to discuss my contributions you can do so on my talk page as it has been made clear that I am as valid and entitled as any other member of the community and should no longer be brought up in a discussion about removing a different user.

As for my thoughts on Neo's actions, I am unimpressed if not beyond disappointed in him and hfc2x for giving such an unfit person the most important role on the wiki only to have them do whatever they can to illegally maintain it, keep it from more deserving people, illegally demote one of our top contributing admins, illegally locking two discussion pages (one about himself), and failing to uphold their duties by reverting vandalism, blocking vandals, updating the home page, and more. These failures are inexcusable and go completely without reason. I grow increasingly annoyed as I log on each day only to see no updates, poor edits, and vandalism that I will have to undo. Our bureaucrat has not contributed to our wiki very much in the past month, he has only made the wiki dramatically worse since his promotion.

Unfortunatley the community is not highly engaged within our discussion, which makes it hard to get votes or opinions as you all deem mine and my brothers opinions invalid. I would like to be able to contribute to this wiki and improve it instead of only barely keeping it in balance with the limited availabilities I have. As for the involvement of Manuel de la Fuente and the mention of this discussion, there is nothing wrong with trying to involve the community as many of them see these discussions and brush them off. It is simply an attempt at gathering more opinions then the few of us have been sitting her arguing over especially when, again, two of them are deemed invalid. The current bureaucrat has done an insufficient job and we encourage the community to voice their opinion on this dissatisfactory performance. --JinxTheFunhouse (talk) 05:01, March 16, 2015 (UTC)

The problem, or the double standard you assume I'm using, is that Prelate had a problem that was better left between him and that other user. If I'm remembering correctly the screenshots he linked dated back to January, which was when you two showed up. Giving me the feeling that he mentioned something to you two in the hopes you'd side with him. His whole claim was that hfc2x was unfit basically because he was supposedly insulting him and Gourgeist on his private twitter account. The reasoning behind how he found a private account when that user wasn't even using his wikia name is never mentioned. On top of which Jinx, Do1ball, and LCSage vote before hf even has a chance to say his side. You all just assume that Prelate is an upstanding and truthful person, and that everything he posted in both threads are the complete truth. But everytime something "new" manages to emerge you have an excuse. I'm frustrated that because of all this we've lost two active, quality users. Both of whom were active up until the time they were blocked and/or demoted. It also bothers me that while Neo shouldn't have been promoted. You didn't seem to skip a beat in trying to get him demoted. Though it doesn't help that he's not here editing. Though that wouldn't have happened had, at the very least, Gourgeist not been blocked. And yes, I know hf was the one that blocked them.

You say I'm trying to crucify you. But surely you can see how things might look suspicious. Especially given the way things have come out. The fact that they are your relatives doesn't help in my eyes. Do1ball is less active than me, but still active enough to vote. And from the sound of Jinx's page it's only after joining the wiki do they feel this "intense" desire to edit. And since I mention them, you two are the ones that brought up your edit count. You don't want it to be mentioned then you should also stop mentioning it. You can't just go "oh, look at my edit count." But when someone criticizes it you get offended. I'm unconvinced that Jinx and Do1ball showed up just in time to vote of their own will. If I went and got my sisters and friends to join, make a few edits, and vote in these removal threads. Wouldn't you be thinking something shady is going on?

And your comment sounded very much like a bribe. Especially considering they don't meet the edit count. Which is something you seemed to have left out. Instead making it seem like they had a chance. Previous experience on other wikias is not the same as quality edits on this one. Which is similar to what you told TourguideNixon when you told them about the roles of an admin. You may not see it as a bribe, but your comment seemed clear. Vote Neo out and you might become an admin.

As for Jinx, it's not so much that I think you or your opinions are "invalid". But your sudden arrival just in time to help vote someone out is suspicious. And your quick vote to deem someone guilty screams the kind of back door dealings that Prelate was accusing hf about. I am bothered that as new users you so quickly jumped to judgement. It's the kind of actions I don't want someone with power to have. That being said, I think Neo should be demoted. But I don't think his inaction, which isn't even a month old, are as end of the world as the two of you are making it out to be.

As far as what I think is important features of the wikia. I have no choice but to base it on how I use the wiki. Which would make the front page, as nice as it looks, useless to me. Since I visit enough that it loads to the recent wiki activity page.

I'm also bothered that if Prelate gets their previous position back they will promote their relatives soon after. It's a conflict of interest in my eyes. And I'd rather have an objective user with nothing to gain be the judge of another users admin requests.

And to make this clear, because it doesn't seem to be. I have no problem with the community voicing their opinions. But I know this community is more the new 2015 users. But comments like the one Prelate made on someone's talk page make it seem like a new user has more to gain than just vandals blocked and the front page "Featured Chapter" being actively edited.

You two act so suspiciously sometimes, and some of Jinx's edits appear suspect. You make it hard for me to believe that you're not trying to do a power grab. :/ EternalLocket (talk) 06:35, March 16, 2015 (UTC)

Well locket I'm glad you're voicing your opinion, that is exactly what these threads are about. You may notice the complete lack of NeoSuperior because he doesn't care about the community or what they have to say. Hfx2x's twitter account name was changed, it was found by googling his name when I was trying to find his page on the wiki. Also, that was not my entire claim, he was unwilling to promote people based on his personal feelings. If not for the intervention of Gourgiest, I would have been refused or just left to wonder. I can appreciate your dislike of the voting system but that is what wikia staff told me to do. Further, at the time of posting nobody had heard from hfc2x for a long time so I wasn't even sure he would log on. I wouldn't say that I have an 'excuse' I'm just explaining what has gone on, or when I'm accused. You may have noticed the complete lack of Neo; don't you think it's better when people try and explain themselves rather than hide in the shadows?

I'm going to dispute what you said about hfc2x and Gourgiest. Firstly, hfc2x was not an active user, he declared himself inactive on the admin page and was barely editing, part of the reason he promoted me was to be inactive. He also admitted his lack of interest several times in the proposal thread. Gourgiest I'm willing to grant was active, however he was not a quality user. Anybody who is willing to manipulate information and defame a fellow user is not quality, they are shit. I have no regrets about my part in the removal of these two users, I wish they hadn't of made the choices they did. Locket, when the 'powerful' commit abuses you must hold them accountable, no exceptions. The fact that they did a lot for the wiki means little, when people do wrong they must be challenged on it.

Yes Locket, I can see how this is shady but I have two defenses. One, are my abuses in anyway nearly as bad as NeoSuperiors? Please stop making excuses for him like that vandals don't stop or the main page is useless. If that's the case, than we don't need bureaucrats. Don't be selfish, other people use the main page and it is horrible that we can't update it. Jinx is a high quality contributor given her tireless work and large projects she has undertaken, mentioned above. I would find it shady if a whole bunch of your friends joined, but not if they became good contributors. If anyone is a good contributor they have a right to vote, not just make enough edits to vote and then leave. My brother might fit into that category but he has a lot of plans and hopes to improve the wiki, he's just afraid Neo is going to block us all.

If you are interested in changing the voting method, I agree! We can have a discussion among the community and establish concrete rules for the removal of a bureaucrat. You will never have that conversation with Neo, because he doesn't care about rules, the community, and is inactive. Also Locket, Neos inactivity is the least of a his abuses, have you forgotten everything else he did? You can find it all detailed above in my initial post. I guarantee you if anyone did what he did not as a bureaucrat, they would be removed. The inactivity is part of it, because people can see that part much more with the visible vandals.

As for the conflict of interest, I will not be ignoring the rules set up by our wiki. My siblings will receive no preferential treatment. Do1bal is nowhere near a promotion due to his contributions. The rules will be followed to the tee. You won't see me restored and then the both of them as admins, it won't happen. As for this being new users, I can't force people to vote. If people are disinterested than that is their business, the number of votes is less important than the meaning.

About the power grab, that was never my original intention. I wanted hfc2x removed and then I was going to recommend Neo for bureaucrat promotion because he has been an admin much longer than me. However, given his incredible abuses I had no choice but to attempt to remove him, and I did that quickly because of them. At present, it is unfortunate that I am the only user who qualifies for the position as an admin. I do intend to act fairly and be the complete opposite of NeoSuperior. I love this series and this wiki, my only interest is in seeing it grow and become the library that the AoT community deserves, that's all. If you think Neo should be demoted, then please change your vote.--PrelateZeratul (talk) 13:46, March 16, 2015 (UTC)

I haven't yet finished reading all the details of this situation (I decided to begin with the previous thread concerning hfc2x that started everything), but I think I got the big picture, and one thing is clear: we can't continue extending this specific thread. It's pointless, the Wikia employee said that there wasn't any true consensus of anything, there is an evident conflict of interest now that we know that 3 of the 4 voters of the poll are siblings (and none of them thought that was something important to mention at the time), and we can't go anywhere regardless how much we discuss because the only admin hasn't been here for days to begin with.

My proposal: contact the Wikia staff again. They said that they won't be intervening in this matter further, but the situation has changed and we literally can't do anything by our own because none of us has such power.

So, I think we should ask the Wikia staff a few things:

First, I'd like them to activate the new system of forums of Wikia (like the ones seen in The Mentalist Wiki), because discussing in only one page with the flow of messages going up and down with no consistency at all is extremely confusing and hard to follow. If we want to get somewhere, we need to put some organization first.

Secondly, we need them to instruct us what to do next. They probably would prefer to give us freewill to decide, but the situation here is that we have an outdated site with vandals freely plaguing here and there, and the only active admin just blocked the other admin and then vanished, so there is no one with authority to take any action.

Even if they decide to continue with some voting, I think we should reformulate the system because I don't think the siblings of the former admin should vote, especially since the three together represent 60% of the people involved here (not counting the current admin).

So, until a staff member come here and tell us what to do, or until NeoSuperior decides to stop by again, I reserve my right to vote in a poll that I don't even know if counts for something. Manuel de la Fuente (talk) 20:34, March 16, 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for taking part in this discussion Manuel, we very much appreciate it. The solution to our problems isn't ignoring this thread and just hoping wiki staff will intervene, they won't. I have been in near constant contact with them for nearly 2 months and they are unbelievably reluctant to intervene. After all the abuses Neo did (Blocking me, demoting me, closing the old community vote, closing this community vote, being inactive) they have done almost nothing aside from unblocking me. The only piece of advice they offer is to hold a community discussion that lasts for 1 week, that's all. This is our only method for removing NeoSuperior. Further, since telling me they won't intervene any further, they have resisted all my attempts to contact them. The last thing they told me is that they need to see a larger community consensus. Therefore, if more people vote to remove Neo, than we can finally move past this situation. When Hfc2x and I were admins the wiki was running well, he just committed some abuses that required a discussion about it. With Neo gone, we can revert and start getting the wiki on track again.

They've also made it clear, despite my large protests, that purely family votes do not count as much as non-family votes, although the terms they gave me were quite unclear. Therefore, I propose that more people vote to remove Neo, then we can contact the wiki people. They will remove Neo and then I will go back to the position that was wrongfully taken away from me by an illegal bureaucrat. The wiki will once again run smoothly, this really is our only option. I've fought this battle for 2 months and found that it is the only way. Further, after this vote (Since I think we should avoid major changes during) I think we should establish clearer consensus for voting out bureaucrats. Also, family members should have a much larger cap on when they can vote, but that is a topic for another day.--PrelateZeratul (talk) 20:57, March 16, 2015 (UTC)

I have contacted the Wikia staff. I hope they don't ignore me. Depending of their answer I'll see what to do. Manuel de la Fuente (talk) 02:53, March 17, 2015 (UTC)

Well Manuel you are certainly welcome to do that, although I suspect they will tell you the same thing they told me, if they respond at all. I would however like to emphasize my previous points about the bad stuff Neo has done. You are an admin on the Mentalist Wiki, yes? Surely, if a current bureaucrat was in the middle of a 'trial' and then completely ignored your bureaucrat nomination process in order to promote an inactive admin who didn't qualify for the position, and then this new bureaucrat cut a deal to have the old bureaucrat step down, then he ended the 'trial' early and made the decision, then he blocked/demoted the person who made the trial, and then he refused to respond to his own trial, and then closed it down just before it expired, and then went inactive for 9 days. Surely, you can't convince me otherwise, that if you were the bureaucrat at Mentalist Wiki and that happened that you wouldn't demote and/or block the person. This is not a case of he said she said, everything I wrote in my opening proposal is 100% true, absolutely. Neo did do all those things, and you can go back and check recent wiki activity in order to prove it. Lastly, his reason for banning me, posting screenshots, was confirmed by wikia staff to not be against the Terms of Use, which was his justification.--PrelateZeratul (talk) 03:57, March 17, 2015 (UTC)

I am growing consistently tired of this bureaucrat's inactivity and lack of action. I have just undone even more vandalism and no active person on the wiki is within the jurisdiction to ban such vandals. Our wiki continues to fall apart, remain not updated, and be vandalised without penalty. Truly we are at an all time low in the quality of our wiki which so many people have worked so hard to improve. I am tired of seeing mine and the communities efforts fall apart because no one smart enough to take action is in power. I continue to stand by my statement that NeoSuperior should be removed and most certainly blocked for this immaturity and his personal abuse of the wiki. I only hope we are able to make a change before our wiki has totally fallen apart.--JinxTheFunhouse (talk) 16:00, March 17, 2015 (UTC)

I am new to many Wikia things, so please, if I've errored something, correct me. But onto what I am to say. I've silently watched what happened with hfc2x, and I apologize for not adding in that I did agree with his staff abilities to be removed. I've watched what has happened here, and seen how NeoSuperior has done nothing to help this Wikia currently, even with his bureacrat abilities, which I agree that are illegal. I vote that he is removed, and possibly blocked for his actions, and that PrelateZeratul be given his admin abilities back.. Andress952 (talk) 18:04, March 17, 2015 (UTC)

I do not understand the whole discussion, I am rather simple minded. But in my opinion it is all about practical use. In Neo is not acting properly he should be replaced. That's all. Bad actions would be justified with good consecuences, but that is not the case. If he illegally ganied his position it does not even matter because now he is doing awful. I know no details so I try to make it as simple as possible. You do things bad, you get punished. I understand the impact that his past actions has but if his results are really that bad ( please make the Beast Titan article only editable by members!!!!!!!!) that is more than enough. I think that I have been repiting myself quite a lot so I end here. Raposu (talk) 21:51, March 17, 2015 (UTC)Raposu

I am sorry for all the inconveniences in the last 2 weeks. I will now voice my thoughts on the matter: I actually did not even want the bureaucrat rights in the first place. The only reason I took them in the end was the lack of involvment of the wikia staff in this matter. If you ask me I would not even have gotten involved in any of this at all, if I had the choice. If all PrelateZeratul had done was merely taking the bureaucrat rights after removing them from Hfc2x through community decision, I'd have voiced my disapproval, but that would have been all. However he had to take things personal and wanted to get Hfc2x blocked as well for reasons which were outside of not only this particular wiki, but also outside wikia and all of it was based on biased paraphrasing of discussions on 3rd party platforms. If people here have no qualms about such things and don't mind if PrelateZeratul establishes a dictatorship with his own one and only correct "justice" policy, like on the Hange page, then who am I to complain about it? I don't think I have to mention how PrelateZeratul also complained about Hfc2x not contributing to the "Manual of Style", however he himself didn't either and if you actually look at the current state of the Manual of style, Hfc2x had contributed to it 1 time, while PrelateZeratul did at the moment I write this post... not even once.

The greatest problem I have with PrelateZeratul is that he considers himself to be "perfect". He is unable to ever admit being wrong in any situation, unless there is undeniable proof against what he says, and even if there is, he still tries to somehow try to make it look as if he was at least "partially right". In the discussion about removing Hfc2x, PrelateZeratul stated that User Gourgeist has been "bullied by Hfc2x as well". However if you read on, you can clearly see that Gourgeist, instead of agreeing with PrelateZeratul, instead turns against him and even goes as far as fabricating evidence against PrelateZeratul. Does it not sound odd? If Gourgeist really was a victim of Hfc2x as PrelateZeratul claims, shouldn't Gourgeist try to help PrelateZeratul to get Hfc2x demoted instead? It does not add up, PrelateZeratul's claims are full of holes.

Whenever I did something that was going against PrelateZeratul's plans while there were no convenient reasons for him to call me up on it, he would resort to intimidation. For once when I removed the "poll" of this thread once, as I deemed it contra-productive to an "open discussion" (a staff member clearly told me that such an open discussion is NOT supposed to be a "poll"), PrelateZeratul imidietly re-added it and stated that removing it is "obstructing" the discussion and that he would report to a staff member if I did that. So I must ask the community: What exactly would have been "obstructed" here? Of course we are assuming that PrelateZeratul was not insulting the staff members' ability to count a few Usernames... The only real reason was me not "obstructing" the community's discussion, but PrelateZeratul's own goals instead. That is because a poll being present makes quantity of community members voting for or against my dismissal more revelant, while it not being present would make the content of the discussion and actual arguments far more important. I don't think I have to mention how this relates to PrelateZeratul's "supportive siblings" involving themselves actively into this matter...

The other case was when I locked this forum, because an important report was still being processed. That report was me reporting the possibility of PrelateZeratul using sockpuppet accounts to manipulate the outcome of these two community decisions. After I blocked the discussion, because the deadline was approaching, PrelateZeratul wrote on my talkpage that my actions are "illegal" (he used that word 7 times in his post) and that as far as he was concerned, he would consider the discussion to end at the deadline. However then the "great revelation" happend: 3 users who wanted Hfc2x and me demoted and blocked actually shared the same IP address! Due to that the forum was put on hold for some time, until PrelateZeratul finally thought it was worth to mention the fact that those 2 other users are, in fact, his FAMILY MEMBERS! And of course the reason for not revealing this earlier is supposedly due to "privacy", including the fact that the "family members" joined this wiki on consecutive days only a few weeks before the first community discussion.

If you ask PrelateZeratul, he would probably claim that all of it was a mere "coincidence" and all of his actions were not even in the slightest of personal nature, but instead "for the good of the wiki". Will you believe it or not? Do you think being an active and diligent contributor is all it takes to be an admin or bureaucrat? Do you think PrelateZeratul is fit for the role? That question is left up to you, Shingeki no Kyojin community.

But enough about PrelateZeratul. Now I am going to talk about myself: I must once against apologize for being inactive for the last 2 weeks. I thought I'd have enough free time until the end of March, but it seems my time ran out faster than I thought. I will also not have much time left in the future, so I thought about retiring at the end of March, but it seems I will have to do it sooner. I would have retired far earlier, if PrelateZeratul did not have the idea to block Hfc2x for personal reasons. The reason I was still doing all I could to prevent him from being blocked (for reasons I can only classify as "ridiculous") was based on the fact that I still felt attachment to this wiki, as I have been a member here for quite some time. Due to what PrelateZeratul did, how the actual community (I am excluding PrelateZeratul's "family" here) did not get themselves involved until recently, as well as how the staff members went back and forth about involving themselves in this internal dispute or not, I have now lost any kind of attachment for this wiki, but that does not mean I hate it, I don't even hate PrelateZeratul personally. I just feel that it would continue in an endless circle that would leave this community nowhere.

I apologize for this rather informal post, but I had to give a final statement about my motivations before I go.

I have given my rights to Manuel de la Fuente now as he requested it and I think he is able to make the correct judgements here, escpacially since he is not involved in this matter himself. I wish the Shingeki no Kyojin community best of luck and will now take my leave. Good Bye. NeoSuperior (talk) 02:44, March 20, 2015 (UTC)

Thanks for taking your leave of absence Neo and letting us know where you stand, after allowing the wiki to rot for 2 weeks. In any case, I will now respond and defend myself as I always have, not for the reasons you state, but because you are wrong. My issue with hfc2x was never personal, and it isn’t now. He abused me many times which you can read about in my proposal to remove him. He was also letting personal feelings influence his decisions on the wiki, which a bureaucrat cannot do. While NeoSuperior can only speculate about my intentions I can provide the truth, I started the forum because hfc2x was no longer a good bureaucrat. I felt that he was hindering my main goal, to see this wiki become the best wiki. Furthermore, all I did was bring his abuses to the community and asked them what they thought, I never blocked him alone. I believe doing this is an important part of the process and all people should be allowed to do this, bureaucrats are not immune to reprisal.

I am not establishing a dictatorship, if you want to call it anything call it a “FollowTheRulesship”. Hfc2x and NeoSuperior broke the rules of our wikia, the same ones we should all be accountable to. If anyone else had done this they would have been blocked; you can’t escape justice by being a bureaucrat. As long as people follow the rules I have no problem with them, in face I love them. But when the rules that we have agreed upon are broken, I will always be there to defend them and the ideals behind them. I have constantly said I believe in open dialogue, and that is still true. I will speak to anyone about anything if they message me. This is in complete contrast to Neo who shut down discussion, blocked me for starting it, and then went inactive. I didn’t contribute to the Manual of Style because I wanted to let our most senior/experienced member, hfc2x, have his opinion as well, and he refused to engage in discussion with me. I tried, and he wasn’t interested in talking to me. My only interest is seeing this wiki become the best.

In my opinion Gourgeist was bullied by hfc2x, and later admitted to me that he was, but that’s not important. It was part of the abuses he committed. Also, I am not perfect and never said I was. I will admit mistakes if I have committed them, I just believe that my intentions were honourable and that I have done the right thing. I do feel bad regarding my family, but that was a privacy issue and I continue to believe that family members are just as much part of the community as anyone else. However, they must be willing to prove themselves as unique, and I have offered to do that multiple times. Gourgiest had his own reasons for doing what he did, but it isn’t relevant to this discussion.

I never resorted to intimidation in my opinion, I did tell Neo to not interfere with the community vote because he had a history of doing it. As I have always said, that was run in accordance with what wikia staff told me to do. Even being warned Neo did not listen, locking the page later on. I do believe everything I’ve done has been for the benefit of the wiki and I would ask everyone else to do the same, given my position. --PrelateZeratul (talk) 03:11, March 20, 2015 (UTC)