Post by markbyron on Aug 15, 2016 2:07:41 GMT
Three admins will be taking a break and I sent a PM to all three with the following:
"To the point, there's a consensus of seniors to put you (Farah), Darklynx and Galahad on a week 'vacation' from the server & forum. This is being done to hopefully avoid a serious sanction with more permanent and long term consequences. When you return, you can be reinstated by making a request to let and letting me know you're planning on doing everything in your power to avoid causing or contributing to the poisonous admin atmosphere and striving hard for peace and respect. You got senior admin because you worked hard & earned it, and it's just a member of remembering what brought you to that level. If you decide not to reinstate but stay on as an OP, that's your choice but I don't recommend it. Ex-admins are required to abide by admin conduct standards and they often run into problems with that. As such, when you're at the OP level and there's a problem, there's no demotion to be done and the sanction becomes a ban. While you're on break, don't do anything that would show you're not ready to return in a week. Just take the break and stay away; do something else constructive."
To emphasize, this was done in consultation with seniors plus others. Whether you takes sides or agree or disagree, I'm trying to do this in the interest of maintaining admin peace on the server. If you feel this requires you to leave your status, I expect to see a PM but keep in mind, I'm not suspending or perm banning as though they're rogues - it's basically a one week timeout and hopefully they can work things out.
Everybody knows there was some resignations in the past couple of days due to frustration with policy and myself. I accept that although most of those who resigned have returned and hopefully we can move forward in a positive manner. Anybody who's been around awhile, know it's a sore point to me when admins publicly disrespect each other and cause all kinds of division & drama. You're not going to like everybody else but you need to respect each other and when there's a dispute, take it private. That include me; earlier a super admin PM'd me; they were unhappy about sanctions I imposed and was very critical. That's fine; that's the way it's supposed to be done and I think we resolved the dispute.
So let's press forward
"To the point, there's a consensus of seniors to put you (Farah), Darklynx and Galahad on a week 'vacation' from the server & forum. This is being done to hopefully avoid a serious sanction with more permanent and long term consequences. When you return, you can be reinstated by making a request to let and letting me know you're planning on doing everything in your power to avoid causing or contributing to the poisonous admin atmosphere and striving hard for peace and respect. You got senior admin because you worked hard & earned it, and it's just a member of remembering what brought you to that level. If you decide not to reinstate but stay on as an OP, that's your choice but I don't recommend it. Ex-admins are required to abide by admin conduct standards and they often run into problems with that. As such, when you're at the OP level and there's a problem, there's no demotion to be done and the sanction becomes a ban. While you're on break, don't do anything that would show you're not ready to return in a week. Just take the break and stay away; do something else constructive."
To emphasize, this was done in consultation with seniors plus others. Whether you takes sides or agree or disagree, I'm trying to do this in the interest of maintaining admin peace on the server. If you feel this requires you to leave your status, I expect to see a PM but keep in mind, I'm not suspending or perm banning as though they're rogues - it's basically a one week timeout and hopefully they can work things out.
Everybody knows there was some resignations in the past couple of days due to frustration with policy and myself. I accept that although most of those who resigned have returned and hopefully we can move forward in a positive manner. Anybody who's been around awhile, know it's a sore point to me when admins publicly disrespect each other and cause all kinds of division & drama. You're not going to like everybody else but you need to respect each other and when there's a dispute, take it private. That include me; earlier a super admin PM'd me; they were unhappy about sanctions I imposed and was very critical. That's fine; that's the way it's supposed to be done and I think we resolved the dispute.
So let's press forward