User blog comment:Lord Andrew Mallace/Demotion Request: G-man./@comment-3524871-20160504140927/@comment-4619254-20160504174147

A lot of the points you raise are somewhat truthful, but now allow me to respond. Also, i'd like to take this time to agree with everything Mallace said above. We are friends first, but these things happen because this site is a democracy-fest.

"I do next to nothing for the community? I handle all of the coding on the Wiki"

true

"moderate chat"

Do you though? Like when you didn't kick someone for swearing and then chalked it up to laziness?

"run the Wiki's bot"

which is barely used, at least publicly

"create articles and stories"

Like once every two months.

"participate in discussions and votes, and even create votes."

again, true

"I don't sit in chat and "say how much I want my next demotion request"; I don't "want to be demoted"."

I definitely worded that wrong, but when you bring it up so often people might take it as you wanting a demotion.

"I simply tell users to voice their opinions and create votes because all of the time people are scared to do so. Don't mistake my support for raising concerns for a demotion craving."

Then why don't you just say that? Your support for raising concerns is great but do it differently.

"In my opinion, 2011 was a better time. We had more activity, it was our golden age. Why else would it be called our golden age if it wasn't the best time the wiki had?"

Yes, 2011 was great. Here's the thing. When you consistently live in the past and drag the wiki back with you, even changing the wiki layout to the khaki one we had in 2011. We need change. We need Not reminiscence.

"The only comment I'm going to make about the "wiki layout" is that the response generated from it was positive. The theme is not an issue, and you are only including it because you need some filler."

see above why this is an issue

"Truly, I don't know how I came this far. That has nothing to do with my ability to lead the Wiki, just more filler."

Then what does it mean? You always say 'i don't know how i came this far' when the topic of demotions or promotions comes up. Confusion matters.

"We do need to generate more activity, and I have done things to generate it. I encouraged the writing of new stories."

Because encouraging the writing of new stories and stuff like that is totally the same as writing things yourself. I encouraged activity like nobody else did last year and legitimately nobody cared. Encouraging activity ≠ activity. Making activity = activity.

"I had you bring back the Wiki Newsletter, which you haven't worked on yet. I brought forward the vote to legalize RP on the Wiki once more."

My fault, and yes, you did.

"I've done more than anyone here to help bring back activity, the community won't latch on though."

No, you haven't. The people who help bring back activity are the people consistently making new content, be it a story, a blog or whatever. And, even if you didn't mean for your statements of "I come here to enforce the rules, do my job and get out" or "I don't come here to edit" to be taken in the way that you simply don't care, they were.

"In order for activity to be brought back we need to act, the issue is that nobody wants to. I've tried, and I'll keep trying, but in the end it's up to the community at large."

We're acting, here and now.

"We all display levels of immaturity, but when it comes down to important topics I remain mature."

Most of us do.

"When I enforce the rules, which is my job, I am mature. The responses I get from the enforcement are less than mature."

What responses? Nobody that I know of has an outright issue with you enforcing the rules, and then proceeds to act super immature because of it.

"Yes, I know that giving kudos on my alts wasn't mature, but it has no effect on the Wiki whatsoever. I'm mature when it counts, can the rest of you say the same?"

I didn't make that argument, and yes, most of us can say the same.