Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-34115-20150626061048/@comment-1251315-20150627080035

I just spent the better part of 30 mins writing a response, but it got wiped. So I'll summarise it.

Some of the responses here are hilarious. It only showcases the culture that this wiki has: it's all about currying favour of the sysops. If you get good favour with them, good things happen and you basically get free passes to do whatever you damn well please: conversely, if they dislike you, then you'll be treated as a troll and they will oppose you at whatever chance they can get.

The funny part about all of this is that the thread just focuses on me only. And it seems clear that some users refuse to look at the reasons why I've reacted in certain situations: essentially, all people are going to do is look at me negatively and completely ignore everyone else I was responding to, because apparently I'm the big bad evil villain and everyone else is a saint.

Case in point: where's the "Dealing with" thread for someone like Foxie? Everyone knows he doesn't deserve his rights and is extremely abusive to people, going as far as to use his sysop tools as editor tools to favourable outcomes on his side. Funny how I'm not seeing a thread about him being dealt with: oh wait, I forgot.

He "begged" for sysop for the most ridiculous reasons ("Please sir, I need to edit protected infoboxes, give me sysop rights" sums it up: what happened to just asking sysops to lower the protection or to make the edit?), had virtually no consensus from the community for such a promotion (funny that you don't need consensus when you "beg" to Dan on a talkpage and give pathetic reasons like Foxie did, but when it comes to more suitable candidates... "omg, u can't just beg for sysop, go get a consensus". Strange how that same logic can't be applied to everyone else. Oh well) and does not deserve to hold any level of power here (fyi: Foxie got himself infinite blocked from Dragon Ball Wiki for intimidating behaviour, harassment and trying to pry members away from the wiki to his own. Why should the wiki have someone in power who acts like this elsewhere?). Funny how someone like him continues to hold a level of power over the editors here, when he does nothing whatsoever that warrants him to be a sysop. Fact is, Dantman doesn't bother to keep an eye on his sysops and lets him do whatever they please.

If you want this problem sorted, sort the problem of the shitty culture in which sysops are invincible gods who think they're allowed to do whatever they want. Until that is solved, this will not be solved because, whether I have rights or not, some sysops get preferential treatment and do not get punished for anything. I want to see threads re-evaluating sysops like Snapper2, TheUltimate3 and Ten Tailed Fox, as these three users -- whatever their contributions may be -- are overshadowed by their terrible behaviour at times and their "I'm right, your wrong" attitude whenever someone points out their mistake.

Also, just because all the emails regarding Tau are from me alone, does not instantly invalidate people's opinions. Not everyone feels a need to share it with anyone either.

To be quite frank, I'm sick of all this. There won't be any fair consensus from this whatsoever and there never will be. It'll just be non-sysops giving their opinions and they will be ignored, because Dantman will only read the opinions of sysops.

As it stands, all the sysops have opposed me. So I'm just going to save everyone the effort by demoting myself as a Forum Operator, because I don't give a damn about obvious bullshit outcomes, this thread was all about how many people could oppose me and Dantman reading only those posts which opposed me: if you supported me, your opinion basically meant nothing to the thread.

This wiki is a train wreck and sysops are invincible gods who you have no right to question. Good work for proving how much consensus matters here: it only matters when it favours the person starting the discussions. If anything should come from this, then I'd like to suggest that someone succeed me as a forum operator: that someone should be Sarutobii2. I chose Saru because he's been here for a short time, he has been trusted with rollback and forum mod, and he seems to be the most capable user to be a forum operator.

If I edit here, if at all, it'll be minor edits. I don't want anything more to do with this trainwreck. A sysop can take the time to remove my forum operator tag.

Dantman, you have your consensus. This thread does not need to be open any longer. However, I expect you to do what I expect any bureaucrat user to do: evaluate your sysops. Some of them are the reason for this outcome. If you only cared enough to keep an eye on your sysops and deal with inappropriate behaviour, this would not have happened. But of course, your continued indifference and ignorance to your sysops' behaviour is why this escalated like it did. Sort it out or this wiki will lose members.

PS: The issues I have with sysops does not extend to Omnibender, Jacce or UltimateSupreme. They are people who are decent sysops and the wiki could probably operate quite fine with just these three managing the wiki.