RE: All The Tropes Wiki Project, Part XVII
09-20-2020, 01:12 PM (This post was last modified: 09-20-2020, 01:12 PM by GethN7.)
09-20-2020, 01:12 PM (This post was last modified: 09-20-2020, 01:12 PM by GethN7.)
I shared this message privately with Bob, Brent, and Rob a few days ago, and I am going to make it public now because I have some added context I believe deserve public acknowledgement:
This all said, I offer the same apology to anyone else who felt I abused my authority, I regret sincerely the breach of faith and trust I caused.
As for the time I may return to resume my former place at ATT Miraheze, when or if I am allowed or ask to do so, it will not be anytime soon. I have been heavily working on modernizing, cleaning up, and otherwise bringing ATT Wikia onto a much more equal footing with the Miraheze branch because it is woefully out of date. I expect it will take until at least December to get the place to something resembling cleaned up enough to not be filled with unfinished pages, unlicensed images (at least those inherited from prior projects), spam, and other junk. Until then, I have no intention of interfering with the administrator decisions of ATT Miraheze in any way and will confine myself to ATT Wikia in an administration role.
Should I be accepted BACK to Miraheze's ATT in my former role, the above can and should be used to hold me accountable. No amount of moral indignation on my part justifies what I did in a procedural sense, and to avoid it in the future I shall simply surrender my powers once more (or they can be forcibly removed by consensus of the other admins). Until we get to whenever we decide on that, I'm simply going to clean up our Wikia branch and not interfere with the workings of Miraheze, and not offering any input there except as a regular user.
As for the legal reasons I left, it is my hope and contention they should be long settled by Christmas, or such is the idea, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
In the meantime, if anyone wishes to help me clean up our Wikia branch, do let me know if you are interested.
Quote:Now that I've long since calmed down, I want to say, to three people I hope still consider me a friend, that I'm sorry for why I left in a huff awhile back and turned over the car keys.
I acted in what I felt was the best interest of our Miraheze branch, but I fully acknowledge to the three of you the way I went about it was against policy, I was needlessly antagonistic and emotional, and while I believe was doing something my own morality was comfortable with, I still left the three of you with a lot of grief that could have been avoided.
And for that, I could not have been more wrong, and I will choke down the humble pie on that, because I should.
As to whether I wish to return to ATT Miraheze to have my mod/bureaucrat hats back, I would like to eventually, but I pulled rank, made an ass of myself, and let myself be swept up in emotion, and I deserve punishment for that, so at least until Christmas, or whatever other time you three agree is suitable, I shall continue to remain in control of only our Wikia branch until you three believe I can return to my former place at Miraheze, and if you wish to solicit community opinion on that when or if you three deem my possible return to be on the table, I shall submit to the will of the majority at that time.
Until then, I apologize once again for how I acted and how I caused you all undue grief, and I could not be more ashamed of any possible wedge I drove between us. I hope that can be remedied in full at some future date, but in the meantime, I can only offer my apology for my foolishness and will leave whatever and whenever you deem fit for my possible return entirely at your collegial mercy and allowance.
And if a similar event as the one that led to my leaving occurs again, I shall recuse myself and surrender my powers once again to avoid any other repeats of this regrettable breach of faith and trust I caused.
P.S. - As to the legal concerns I had, I reconsidered all of your views and believe I may have acted precipitously and rashly, and I shall defer to your collective wisdom in the future instead of assuming only I know best, and the three of you may hold me to that.
This all said, I offer the same apology to anyone else who felt I abused my authority, I regret sincerely the breach of faith and trust I caused.
As for the time I may return to resume my former place at ATT Miraheze, when or if I am allowed or ask to do so, it will not be anytime soon. I have been heavily working on modernizing, cleaning up, and otherwise bringing ATT Wikia onto a much more equal footing with the Miraheze branch because it is woefully out of date. I expect it will take until at least December to get the place to something resembling cleaned up enough to not be filled with unfinished pages, unlicensed images (at least those inherited from prior projects), spam, and other junk. Until then, I have no intention of interfering with the administrator decisions of ATT Miraheze in any way and will confine myself to ATT Wikia in an administration role.
Should I be accepted BACK to Miraheze's ATT in my former role, the above can and should be used to hold me accountable. No amount of moral indignation on my part justifies what I did in a procedural sense, and to avoid it in the future I shall simply surrender my powers once more (or they can be forcibly removed by consensus of the other admins). Until we get to whenever we decide on that, I'm simply going to clean up our Wikia branch and not interfere with the workings of Miraheze, and not offering any input there except as a regular user.
As for the legal reasons I left, it is my hope and contention they should be long settled by Christmas, or such is the idea, but we'll cross that bridge when we come to it.
In the meantime, if anyone wishes to help me clean up our Wikia branch, do let me know if you are interested.