Thread:Sonar553/@comment-31208684-20190612183223

I took things too far and replied way too aggressively, I admit that, but let me point out the flaws in Nusdan's argument as constructively and fairly as possible.

Firstly, Nusdan used my posts in Sonar's retirement thread as an example to claim that I command people with nonexistent influence. Here's why I'm rebuking that as an exaggeration of me commanding other people as respectfully as possible:


 * My first post was to say goodbye to Sonar. This post is irrelevant to Nusdan's claims and wasn't intended to be either, so I'm not going to dwell on this for too long.


 * My second post was to state my opinions with basis on why a new staff member, particularly an administrator was needed. I honestly don't see why people would see this as commanding other people, but Nusdan defined that as me labelling the entire staff team as incompetent. This is obviously an exaggeration, but as mentioned in the post, no offense was meant to any of the staff members in question and I just thought it would be good to have a responsible and active contributor that could replace Sonar. Apologies if I sounded critical about the staff members, but this was not meant to "label" the staff members as incompetent nor to demand a new administrator for the Fan Wiki.


 * My third post was to suggest NightmaresRevenge he could become a content moderator due to his active contribution in this wiki. It was a suggestion, nothing more. Nusdan claimed that I was "driving him" to think I had authority over normal users. I'm respectfully rebuking that as an exaggeration because I did not intend to promise him he would become a content moderator or he should listen to what I do if he wanted to become a content moderator. I suggested that he should try to become one because I noticed that he actively contributed to the wiki. If I influenced him to think I had authority over normal users, it was completely unintentional and it is within my own opinion that something like that does not warrant a ban threat.


 * My fourth post was to suggest an opening for more staff members and I used the templates to see if anyone would agree or disagree with my ideas. This was obviously not an official poll, just wondering who agreed with my opinions and who didn't. Of course, this would naturally mean nothing to the Staff Members of the Fan Wiki and it would be entirely up to them to decide whether more staff members would be needed or not. This was by no means commanding anyone or demanding more staff members to be added in the wiki.

Now, in the Weekly Task thread, Nusdan used my posts there as an example to claim that I was commanding staff members in this wiki without any authority. Let's take a better look into these posts:


 * My first post was to claim that Google Translate was unreliable and you would have to fix most of the grammar. That's obviously not a command to anyone, nor am I telling anyone what they should do. I'm not going to dwell on this too long because if one sees this as mini-modding, one should have common sense before throwing around accusations without basis or logic.


 * My second post was to claim that you have every right to use images from the Russian GD Wiki as long as they're not specifically copyrighted. Personally, I think this is a misconception, because the reason I said that was because I knew for a fact that FANDOM's Terms of Use allowed content that wasn't made by another person or copyrighted. So that's what I meant by replying to Protostar, and I can see how people would think that I was mini-modding there, but my intention was not to give commands to Protostar, just to answer his question. I guess I should have used the Terms of Use as an example to back up my statement, but I swear to you on my life that my intention wasn't and was never to command Protostar.

I think I've said enough, but hopefully this explains my intentions and clears up some things. If Nusdan sees this, I'm sorry for lashing out at you and acting completely aggressive beyond what is required. I'm not going to shift any blame onto anyone else, but hopefully you at least understand why I reacted that way, considering I've had a stressful day due to personal reasons the same day.

That's all, and thank you for listening. 