Board Thread:Wiki-Related Discussion/@comment-5679696-20160731204313

Hello, I am not happy to write any of this, but I wanted to communicate this to all of the remaining admins, and apparently some are too nervous or scared to talk to me in the chat (or so they have said themselves), so here it is. The purpose of this post is both to voice my discomfort with how this situation played out (not the unavoidable outcome), and to be as transparent as possible with any user who may be interested. I apologize in advance if anyone finds this post offensive, but the goal behind this is to express my concern about how we are deciding some really important matters. As you may or may not know, admin Nightlily has suggested the demotion of Lady Junky. The demotion took place recently. Out of the five administrators, three were in favour of this demotion (Nightlily, Utter solitude, and Applegirl), one was against it (myself), and one was not approached with the discussion (Lady Junky herself). This is not the first time the admins have decided that a demotion was in order, and had it been done professionally and maturely, there would be no problem; as much as I disagree with the demotion, three versus one is a big majority and everyone has the right to suggest a demotion. However, the way this decision was taken is utterly inadequate. The whole discussion was first held by the three pro-demotion admins, who later planned a sort of “set-up” which I’ll delve into later. They then approached me in the chat. Fortunately, Nightlily is not the only one who saves her every conversation “as documentation.”
 * Applegirl: Utter is so brave to go first
 * Nightlily: Nat, you could go in and stall him. (I won't, since I have a feeling that he may be mad at me at the moment.)
 * Applegirl: Lol he didn't write anything I think he knows we're here to corner here lol... *corner him

Stall me? Seriously? Corner me?

As I had been legitimately away from the chat for a couple of hours, they began to consider not including me in the discussion at all.
 * Applegirl: He's avoiding us now, but he can't do this forever
 * Nightlily: You're right; we can't wait for him forever. If he doesn't want to have a say, well, then he's willingly given up his chance to speak. Which means that we will make the decision without him.
 * Applegirl: Yeah. If he continues to be non-responsive, there's only so much time we can wait for him to be cooperative.
 * Nightlily: Killian's had more than one hour now. One and a half hours, actually

Now, I would like to address that bit. One hour, an hour and half, or even a full day of inactivity is no excuse to leave an admin out of this kind of discussion. We have stuff to do in real life, all of us. And pretending that a one hour inactivity period is enough to consider the chance to speak willingly given up is just unacceptable. Gladly, I did come back to the chat eventually, to find that they were there.
 * Nightlily: Wait he says “hello” UTTER, STRIKE!!! Jeez, avoiding us because he doesn't want to banish his best friend is sooooo mature… Great. Now he (Killian) left. Huh, he's back

And yes, “Utter was so brave” to approach me. Utter’s approach was indeed the most professional part of this. I appreciate that I was inclued in this discussion, and she really listened to me, understood where I was coming from, and shared my concerns. Thanks for that. Of course I had no real possibilities of turning the consensus around, since three out of the five admins were already in for the demotion, but I was still given a place to voice my opinion and that was actually nice. What wasn’t that nice are the reactions to what I said, and the set-up. Thank you for taking the time to read this. I am very sorry to say I am deeply ashamed to be part of a team of admins who deal with important decisions in such an immature and unprofessional way. I hope this improves sooner rather than later. I apologize again if this results offensive to anyone. Killian Jones. 