Thread:Webkinz Mania/@comment-26184706-20160811022553/@comment-460966-20160811025050

I can sniff out a legitimate, meaningful apology from the heart and a fake, meaningless one. This can be categorized as the former. I'm not really mad at you. I don't like confrontation.

I'm really sorry that your life was crummy when growing up and Wiki can definitely be a great escape from those problems. When the problems reach Wiki, things can definitely become toxic and everyone obviously has an opinion. I know I singled out certain people for being the reasons being the drama, but we really know that everyone was involved one way or another. I feel like some people were involved much heavily than others.

I get that you are trying to stand up for your friends, but the things you friends (okay, let's be honest: friend, because I am speaking about one person) said to me were pretty offensive. That person was one of my closest Wiki friends here. I was one of his biggest supporters. He was probably a week away from rollback before he stepped down from chat moderator. He might not think this, but these were things discussed in the staff circles around the time Chewy was promoted.

When said user called me a "a**hole," I was deeply offended. I had the choice whether or not to ban the user for a week or let it slide. It was the first time this user was involved in any sort of harassment toward me and I decided that it was best off if the user remained on chat, hoping the drama would cease. The user gave me an apology and turned his back to call me an "d**k" on my birthday a few days later. Then, I received yet another apology from that user before the incident last night. Two nights ago, Stry gave me and several users warnings for "harassment" or comments interpreted as harassment. I did not know my cheers during the BrantSteele were being interpreted as harassment, since the users never confronted me about it.

Last night, the user mocked me. The user did the same thing I was told not to do anymore. What was I supposed to do? I said this in chat multiple times when people asked me. Should the drama continue or should we finally ban that user for harassment? We gave that user a few warnings. Not just one. The rules say "warning, then a one week ban." It was time for a ban and a lot of people said that user's actions crossed the line.

I advise you stay aboard, but it would be terrific if you would be more honest in the future. I respect you immensely. I told you that in chat, but I did not appreciate you putting me on blast, attempting to frame me as a liar or a bad person. You said it yourself. You don't know most of the stuff going on. I did not enjoy being blamed when you yourself said that you did not know the whole story. Only a few people know the whole story and the comments the user said, not just to me, but staff members like N3, have been shocking to say the least. That user's odds of a promotion are zero now and the friendship is almost certainly not going to resume. Not if I'm called "petty" for a ban that should have occurred at the first offense and not if I'm banned for a year on a Wiki I never edited or went to chat on.

You can be the judge on who is petty. You can stick up for your friend. I respect your decision. You are not a bad person. I am not a bad person. People like N3, who got thrown under the bus and Stry, who got thrown into the fire, are not bad people either. Do I wish we can close down chat for the time being? I was the one who brought it up. It was not closed. Do I wish we can go back to the anniversary? Yes, but that is not likely on August 10, 2016.

Most importantly, I value your opinion. I told you that, I have been honest to you throughout and I have spoken my piece of mind here myself.