Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-36052213-20180802015552/@comment-36292647-20180805230422

MrDupin wrote: Llanunall wrote:

My apologies.

Yet, that doesn't make it less worse somehow. It is almost like a comment like that should make one want to distance oneself from it.

Maybe Banning should have distanced himself. Maybe he wanted to simply lighten the mood. In the moment, he wanted to act and he did. We cannot be walking on eggshells all the time, ready to bounce when something goes south.

Jesus, he didn't go full psycho nor did he hurt anyone. He just made a silly, "absurd" comment. It might have even been purely reactionary. Have you never been in a conversation where you said something you didn't want to say? Your mouth just blurting things out on its own accord? Take it easy, these things happen. Perhaps I am being rather too strict in my assessment of the situation.

While I still stand by my position that such a comment was uncouth I will concede that it wasn't as big of a deal as it might have initially seemed. With that said, the amount of dismissal in this thread is rather worrying. I do not think that some people are taking this matter as seriously as they should and some of the comments made by people here have been a little bit more than sad.

I hold the opinion that a community that focuses itself around writing and reviewing literature should have, at the least, some base-line concept of respect, especially in the administration. That is not to say that you have to be prim and proper with everything that you do and say but there is some level of politeness and good-faith that must be employed by someone whose job it is to work directly with the community.

Whether or not this thread ends in demotion is no longer a concern to me. If the admins think that they can work together to be more friendly then by all means go ahead. If the community thinks that he should be demoted then that's out of my hands. As it is I am going to leave my position in favor of demotion unchanged.

All said and done, I have spoken my mind as much as I really care to and now I am going to leave this entire mess be.

P.s. shouldn't you, or another admin, be clearing out all of the off-topic responses like the rules say?