Board Thread:Rights Interest/@comment-5619531-20141005224852/@comment-25393922-20141008205400

For one, I never recall promising to give your rights back. I remember specifically stating that you would get your rights back when you were fit - up until the point that you had gotten so bad that I finally decided either to hand the decision to Skelly or to make you request it yourself. I never said "Okay, Fatal! You're just bound to get your rights back!"

You say that the site needs another crat to be on top of things when the issue arises. Xel is active; I keep an eye on the site on a regular basis, and Skelly checks around now and then, I'm sure. The only reason I haven't been doing much is because there isn't a large amount of things needing done ASAP.

You also say that you don't want to have to come to Xel or me for permission to do things. That's not exactly a power I feel comfortable with you having at the current moment. Major reason: Some of the things you want to do need reviewed beforehand. I also don't feel comfortable with how you used your powers when you had them in the past - For one, you were constantly at odds with me or Skelly about something over the site, which made things extremely difficult to do. Sure, you have your own opinions, but generally you used your opinions to attempt to put stops to things that made a little more sense for a wiki this size - and oftentimes for a really silly reason. For example: I had to argue with you to get rid of the unused request pages and replace them with the rights interest board - which made more sense, got us the much needed staff, and etc.

For two, there are things that you've talked to me about. Then there are things that I wished you had talked to me about. For example, it would have been nice to know now and then when you were going to change a certain rule a certain way. It wasn't until I had logged onto the site a week later after doing some mass work on CP that I noticed you had changed the humor article rules and set up a Humor Appeal. Of course, I went along with this; but it still would have been nice not to have you going under my nose. It's part of the collaborative dynamic this wiki operates on.

For another thing, the original reason you had gotten your rights, which you already should know, was because WhiteReaper had wanted another crat here. I had obliged at that time. However, that isn't needed any longer. Xel is active. I am semi-active. There is a crat who is capable more than well of taking care of things as needed when the wiki is active.

Then we've got the reaction you had when I told you that you would have to reapply. PM or not, you threw a massive fit - over a right. Sure, you could say I reacted badly to my lost crat apps, but I reacted more towards the fact that I had lost the opposing user's trust and eventually sought to try and regain it. You told me straight up that you would rather have me biased towards you and went off on the fact that I wasn't just straight up regranting your rights. Whereas I can't access the screencaps, I do remember that I showed them to Bones. He remarked that if you had done that outside of PM, you would've been banned. He also said that he largely felt you were immature.

Also, I think you misinterpreted what Xel meant. He said he wasn't migrating to CPW because Spinpasta needed an active crat. He meant that he wasn't going to stop working here to go work at CPW because that would leave Spinpasta with no fully active crats.

Of course, you say you've changed. I'm going to need a little more proof than just your word. Sure, you're less of a workaholic, but what about the other things I've mentioned? That is going to need taken care of long before I am willing to support.

There are a probably a number of other things I can go into  (the idea that Xel is the only person considered a community leader is ridiculous for a half a dozen reasons), but the biggest is that I don't feel comfortable with you having the power to act and implement unchecked. Sorry if this is harsh, but it's a huge issue.