User blog:John Breasly/Referring to the Excuse "The Admins Are Dictators"

Before reading this, it isn't some hate blog against administrators. This is pretty much a reply to Stpehen's blog where he all but stated "The users call us dictators." I told Goldvane I'd shut up about admins and help them if they were struggling if they stopped saying things that were basically attacking users. Well, Stpehen just broke that agreement, so I'm going to give some criticism on the matter. Note how not one insult, not one jest, not one tease is found in this blog. So accusing me of "hammering" people is just ridiculous.

So, according to the administrators, people have been marching around calling the administrators dictators. I don't think you could get much farther from the truth. The administrators, while some of their actions have reflected a.... unfavorable type of government, are not dictators. And any user in their right mind, which is most of you (yes, you've all recieved a complement, jump for joy -_-) would not address the administrators as dictators. In fact, the last time I even saw the word "dictator" used as a word to describe the administrators (and not as a joke) was probably in May 2012. However, I still see it used as an excuse for everything. "Oh, well, the users need to stop hammering us and calling us dictators." NO ONE IS DOING THAT! If you consider criticism being "hammered," you need to step down right now because you are NOT fit for the VOLUNTEER job of being an administrator. Leaders take criticism. I sure do. Mallace sure does. So if you want to go anywhere "leading" the community, you're going to need to stop complaining every time someone doesn't like something you do. You just suck it up and take the criticism, instead of giving the excuse "the users call us dictators," because they don't. It's just become some bird-cry excuse sung every time a user is unhappy with an administrative decision. And if I was running this place, whether or not users were calling us dictators, I would demote any administrator who publicly complained about users like that.