User blog comment:Senjumaru Shutara/A History of Adminship for those who are curious/@comment-25052433-20150703165526

Let me start by saying this, I miss having you around here as an admin. With that said...

When I first came on this site as a full time user, I viewed you as a one of the power-admins, a backbone of this community. I looked at some of your blogs and comments, and thought, this person is rather harsh, almost bordering on rude. Of course, then I spent some time doing edits, critiques and really seeing the large amount of horrible stories that were being posted, and slowly, as I became a Rollback, I realized, holy crap, this person was actually holding back a lot. You were harsh, but not rude, you were simply an admin trying to maintain a sense of standards here, and doing your best to do so in a proactive manner.

In other words, you were more than just an admin, you were a community leader, and a damn good one at that.

Your vision for this site during your admin days, and my vision for this site right now as an admin, were actually very similar.

My goal is to see CP Wiki become the premier writing community for our genre. I want people on Creepypasta.com to celebrate when they get a story posted on Creepypasta Wiki. I want this to be a site where quality is ALWAYS valued over quantity, where getting a story to stick on the board here is a true achievement. I am pretty sure that was always your goal.

You were a leader, and as such, you faced the backlash that most strong leaders have to deal with. You made policies that rubbed some people the wrong way, you implemented a tone here that some people couldn't understand at the time, and you created a sense of standard and quality that is still in use this day.

Being a leader means accepting the fact that you might be unpopular. Leaders make the big decisions for the greater good, thinking of impact down the line, as opposed to simply trying to please everyone they meet. A strong leader learns to shrug off the critics, because they don't see the bigger picture as you do. As a leader, the most you can ever hope for is that your unpopular decision today is viewed as a great foundation later down the line, and with all the policies that you did create, I can safely say that you achieved that.

Removing Jeff the Killer had to be done, simple as that. It created an issue with the quality standards, as it clearly didn't meet ours, yet was allowed to stay because of its popularity. That was a good, gutsy move on your part, and trust me when I say that the main users here, the ones that want this site to succeed, all supported you on that.

I was never really active on Spinpasta, so I can't comment too much on what happened over there. It seems as though there were some mistakes made, but from the tone of the conversation, I can say that your heart was in the right place. You were trying to do something big, and that is always going to require bold moves. Sometimes those moves aren't fully understood or appreciated by everyone, and sometimes those plans don't succeed.

However, if everyone was afraid to make big moves, if everyone was more concerned about their public image and being liked by everyone, then no moves would get made at all, and we'd be a joke site full of terrible stories that everyone was afraid to delete because they might hurt someone's feelings.

In closing, let me say this, I am very happy that you're back. I still see you as someone that is the backbone of this community. Win, lose or draw, no one can say that you don't care about this place. You have a great vision, and you've got the courage and leadership to make it happen. I look very forward to working with you as we move ahead.