User blog comment:Shinneth/Time to get Serious./@comment-2234888-20120525234327/@comment-901090-20120526004853

And for some reason I can't comment on the most recent one on the original thread, so... huh.

Anyway, I've not seen one casual user complain about how "unfair" my title is. Only one or two higher-ups have confronted me with this. I've seen the discussions about demoting me (the discussions being about promoting/demoting several people) in the past elsewhere around these parts, the very few people who even mentioned me voiced no desire to have me demoted. Most people who know me are well aware of the massive amounts of work I've put into the wiki, have said that I earned my position, and I take great pride in accomplishing that (and I rarely take pride in anything I do). To be stripped of that simply because of inactivity feels like a slap in the face to me. If I were actually intending to leave the wiki for good, I would understand. But unless the higher-ups want me gone, they should see that stripping me of a title I worked hard to earn is only going to drive me away.

Call me overly-emotional, self-centered, or whatever, but when you talk about how my position and inactivity is unfair to other users, I really don't see what you're getting at because from what I've seen, no user has complained about how unfair it supposedly is. Only a couple of mods/admins. And yes, I consider what you speak of a minor issue at best, but the fact remains that some people are suddenly dead-set on demoting me, and for the record, this started while I was updating on a fairly steady basis for a week or so, and I became discouraged from continuing after being asked to step down. I think that's reason enough to "raise a fuss". The main reason I haven't been around lately this time? Because I don't want to be confronted by the same people again who insist on me stepping down from my position.

I would love to be able to update on a semi-regular basis. With my full-time job I doubt I can manage to be as active as I once was, but then again, when I often try to make edits or proposals or something to improve the wiki, it's usually thrown back in my face for no good reason, so it feels like some people are conspiring to get me to quit.

Point is, from the beginning I worked on this place as hard as I did because it was fun. Having certain people come up to me and say I deserve to have my achievement stripped away from me because I'm not active enough, having my ideas and attempts to help ignored and undone constantly... that's not fun. That's downright unpleasant.

It's not like I've ever abused my power or intentionally caused outbreaks of chaos among users. What happens to people who do that? They get stripped of their title. Just like what's being expected of me. I'm not going to be treated like that.