Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25979511-20180129192821/@comment-3218221-20180201102740

Sxerks wrote: nice wall of text there...

What exactly is it that you are trying to accomplish with getting Bureaucrat rights?

Yes, it was a fair amount of text. Some of it was your own. Several direct quotes, just like the above one.

Did you read it? Did you read any of the other editors' testimonies? We have no way of knowing, since you didn't respond to any of our points. "Nice wall of text there..." is both a response and a non-response all at once, and surely you understand that the role of an Admin is to take the comments and concerns of their community into serious account. To respond to paragraphs of concerns from multiple people with a condescending "nice wall of text there," as if they're something ridiculous, or not worth the time to read... It's not just rude, it's yet another example of how you do not fulfill the role expected of you.

To snub the very people who actually work to make the wiki you founded a better place, and then hammer the ol' Sxerks standby, "What....[are you] trying to accomplish with getting Bureaucrat rights," as if it's the ultimate showstopper question, an actual defense and offense – is you deliberately missing the forest for the tree. Your best defense for ignoring all the legitimate points made against you would have been, "Well, some of them were saying similar points and it would have been repetitive to respond to them all," but that only would have worked had you bothered to formulate a rebuttal in the first place.

This whole thread is just further proof of the communication issues that always cling to you. Last time you pointed to the Forums as the place for communication, but the truth of the matter is that most have stopped trying because it is abundantly clear that you do not want to communicate in the first place. From one user to another, and one sysop to another, it does not look good for an admin to outright not acknowledge any of the points a community has made.

You ask, "What are you trying to accomplish," and I ask, "What have you recently accomplished at all?"

I will keep this shorter than my last response, in the hopes that doing so will encourage you to read it. And I will relink Sannse's post once more as an example of what a sysop should strive to be when acting in their administrative role, and what your conduct is not an example of. The appalling lack of interest you show in your users' feedback shows above else that you do not actually care about your users' opinions, and that is one of the most fundamental factors when it comes to 'the role' of an admin.