User blog comment:Reyes De Luz (Albert Spark)/Demotion Request:Captaingoldvane2/@comment-3112181-20131227235714

Here's some food for thought (thank god it's low carb):

How is demoting him helping the wiki?

You guys aren't benefitting from throwing him out. You keep saying "he's inactive", but one must only review the comments below to learn he isn't. True, he was absent from the wiki since December 11 without making a productive edit, but what happened to the usual warning system that Al distributes in his pretty red boxes? Honestly I don't understand why you choose now to demote him when he's done nothing wrong. One of the reasons I resigned is because I've just become so frustrated with the current administration and my failure to grasp their wild and unpredictable logic. Goldvane is doing the wiki no harm. He's committed no scandal. You've hardly given him a chance to redeem himself once for a meaningless position, yet half of you are willing to give Pearson his seventy-eighth shot at redemption?

And yes, Mr. William Seapirate whatever his name is, seniority does matter. This isn't the US Congress, thank God. Goldvane, besides Parax, is the last of the string of "seasoned admins" that has been here almost since the wiki began. He knows this wiki better than anybody. And honestly, I don't think a rollback position is too much to ask for him. If nothing else, his sound judgement and reason in tough decisions are vital (and, mind you, he's one of the few users left who still possess sound judgement and reason).

I'm looking at the two lists of people. I look at everybody who votes "support", and I look at everybody who votes "oppose". It's hilarious. Absolutely nothing has changed. I see one side who understands the injustice of giving Goldvane absolutely NO forewarning towards this, and I see the other side who, for whatever reason, are under the impression that ridding the wiki of this legendary user from a simple and harmless position will, in some unfathomable way, make the wiki a better place.