User blog comment:Parax./Community Vote: Prince Leon of England/@comment-3112181-20130104043919

Well, damn. I promised myself I wouldn't do this...

I'm changing to my gut tells me to support, but my moral values and conscience tells me to cut the guy some slack. While I do indeed hate his attitude and behaviour as of late, I've been thinking about this. I've also been seeing how other users have been treating him in response to his brashness. I am, by no means, saying that Leon has done any "good" on this wiki in the past week or two; he has indeed been obnoxious (or as Step puts it perfectly, "a pain in the ass"). Even so, I've seen several users retaliate with worse insults, and even several threats. That just doesn't seem right to me. Leon claims to be a "changed man". Do I believe that? Of course not. Do I think he can ever really change, considering he's been singing that same song at least four times now? Maybe, I'm not sure. But, in all honesty, besides a handful of insults to users and occasionally continuing an argument, he hasn't broken any serious rules, and the offenses he has committed can easily be rectified and changed. I know Leon has had several chances to redeem himself on the wiki, but let's be honest here: when he returned to the wiki a few weeks back, he wasn't exactly given a warm welcome. Even I will admit guilt to showing an ugly amount of vitriol to him in his first days back. Therefore, when he is "welcomed" back by sour attitudes and cold shoulders from us, I honestly don't blame him for acting the way he's been acting. I'll say this once again: I am in no way saying that what he has done or what he has said to people has been "good", or shouldn't go unpunished. I'm simply saying that maybe he isn't the problem. Maybe it's us.