User blog comment:TDIFan13/Think before you post/@comment-1734566-20150804023625

Ryan, I don't know how much longer you'll be around, but I do hope you're here to read this.

TL;DR - Thank you.

Long Version: We both know how often you and I have been considered rivals over the course of our respective times here on the Wiki, but through it all, we've both matured and come to respect one another for a variety of reasons, and how to joke with each other on a regular basis.

For that reason and more, I can sincerely appreciate what you've done here. I had noticed such trolling getting ridiculously out-of-control and more frequent on this Wiki for the last few months with the buildup to RR. I personally never witnessed such offensive jokes, but rather, direct attacks on my opinions simply because they were different, in addition to outright trolly declarations that were clearly made just to make fun of my said opinions, in regards to TD, Survivor, and whatnot. I had no clue where it came from, and although I was mighty peeved by it for a long time, I never really bothered to bring it up to an admin because I thought that it was mostly magnetized to me alone because, well, I guess I am known for my more controversial nature.

But when I finally heard from others that such trolling truly was happening elsewhere on the Wiki, I had begun to wonder why it was happening and when/if anyone was gonna do anything about it, or if, perhaps, the "charges" were too minor/childish to consider real breaking of the rules. But with this blog, you answered that question. Hopefully this quasi-purging or whatever you want to call it will REALLY let such trolls know that enough is enough, and even if they have the advantages of numbers and/or obscurity, we can put a stop to it with a quick smack of the rules and subsequent punishments.

And on that note, I just wanted to take the time to apologize in general, to anyone who may have been offended by some of my comments recently, whether it was in the Reunion Fest or in some Message Wall Threads. I always love to think of myself as someone who deliberately challenges Political Correctness, but I do my best to make it clear that A) I'm self-aware of it, and B) I'm making fun of the PC Culture, NEVER specific people in question, when I make such comments. Or, in rare cases, a C) option, where I lashed out in response to such trolls and maybe said a thing or two I might regret today.

But nevertheless, I'm sure this will reenergize a lot of people on the Wiki into having more faith in our Staff, and the future of our Wiki as some members of the Old Guard step out, and the New Guard steps in with the new spin-off series.

Hopefully we'll get to talk again sometime soon before you leave, Ryan. For old time's sake.