User blog comment:Joeyaa/My views on everything here/@comment-113335-20090707180444

Ugh. Joeyaa, I understand your best intentions are here, but there are some things in this site that are older than some of the articles.

Yes, by using doctrines like Str00del and Walruses, we are feeding the trolls. However, unlike most people, when I eradicate vandals, it makes me feel like I have a purpose. My favorite thing to do as an administrator is block and dicipline those who do wrong. In fact, that's an understatement. I love to block vandals. The more vandals, the more I get to block. I don't feed the trolls for the sole purpose of bringing them here, but Str00del Doctrine and other "immature" tactics are a heck of a lot of fun.

There's one thing I don't like, and it's being criticized by a person who thinks they know everything. True, your policies are indeed correct and do indeed help most every Wiki in this corporation, but this is not a one-size-fits-all standard, and this site is run very differently from any other. People have come for YEARS to try and change it, way before you, and every time I tell them exactly what I am telling you.

To continue, there ARE other wikis using the Webmaster title: Rocket Science, Dragons, among others use this title.

Furthermore, addressing the Staff as "Master" isn't smart-aleck, kiss-up, or anything else of that nature. I was the one who first addressed them as said title, and I meant it as an honor, not an insult. True, I have been guilty of immature manuvers in my career, but does everything have to be mature in this world? Honestly, not everyone wants to be mature all the time. I try to retain a level of maturity by using proper grammar and not using all-caps when mad, but I am autistic, and immaturity and the mindset I use on this site are side effects of the disorder, or at least the version I carry.

The Dictator Title, which I carried for most of my career on this site, was created to show a particular set of villianous users that I was not phased by their insults, low-brow attacks, or excessive spam. They called me a dictator, and a minion of Communist China (among other things), and seeing as their pathetic insults didn't hurt me, I chose to take the title as a metho to spite them. It actually worked, believe it or not, that actually reduced their spam and such. This occured several months, maybe years, ago.

Joeyaa, you may see a wiki as a serious and very important contribution to the greater of all society and a very important thing not to be taken lightly, but I view it differently.

This doesn't reflect the view of others, might I add, but this mindest is what I use daily in a wiki.

To me, Wikia editing is an amusing and very nerdy sort of thing which I do because I have no life of my own. Editing gives me the false belief that I am doing something to educate the masses, and it is a very satisfying thing. However, I keep in mind the untrustworthiness of a wiki format that makes Wikipedia controversial, and I take the entire thing, good and bad, both with a grain of salt and in a highly lighthearted fashion. I tell myself it's just a website, not a business, and that it's not important tin the greater scope of my life. I treat it like my job nonetheless, and as you may have seen, I am very defensive of my views and of the Wiki's current state.

I firmly believe you take this site too seriously, or Wikia too seriously.

I'll continue. Now, you claim that the Master Staff are harrassed by bombardments of mail and such? Allow me to say I have nothing to do with that. I haven't alerted the Master Staff in a long time. A lot of this community may have, but I myself have not. When I contact the Master Staff, I try to do it with a mature tone. I address the situtation, inform them of my desire(s), etc. and hit send.

As for the admin totalitarianism, you haven't seen the whole picture. Who said that the admins, or me as Dictator, ignored the People? In fact, who are you to say that at all?

When I was the leader, I went on a near-daily basis. When reading people's pleas, comments, etc., I listened to them and made a decision based on what I thought was best for them and/or the site.

For you to criticize this site's government is also to criticize me. I have been a member of this site for years, and I didn't even invent the term Webmaster or the current government. That honor happens to go to Robbsi, whom I consider one of the best editors here. He was very wise, and appointed me and Barkjon as the "Webmasters". It was a good move, since the checks and balences have saved this site more than you can count. In fact, as Dictator, I was a rank below Barkjon, the Webmaster, and if he wanted to, he could have immediantly quelled and/or overruled any decree, decision, block, edit, or portection I made. I purposely lowered my power and rank at one point because of the exact reason you criticize the site. I didn't want to be a Rougue Admin, I didn't want to ruin the site more than I have.

However, even though I may have stepped down, I have been dubbed a "backseat driver" to the newly appointed leaders, and I really don't like when people mess with our wiki.

Speaking of that, I have never called the wiki "mine", adhering to the "wiki = community" doctrine that the corporation placed. I tried to keep the community's best interest at heart, but sometimes I had to step in and just say No.

I can compare myself to my favorite USA president, George W. Bush. Bush is loved by some, despised by many, but in his reign he stood for something and continued to do so. Many of his decisions were not liked, but he believed he did what was best for his country every time. When Bush walked out of office, he said he regretted nothing and will have his head held high, feeling he did the right thing.

In a similar manner, I did what I felt was best for the site. I made some pretty terrible moves (notably the MOW, that one stunk on ice), but all in all, I regret nothing. I've made mistakes, and I do still, but that's what we all do at times. I was proud to lead a sitem which, though unstable, was somethign I was entrusted with, and I vowed to do so with all of my ability. I eventually started disliking and then hating the site, but I came back because I am a man of my word and I refused to let the people who trusted me with my power down. So, I came again and again until I finally stepped down and became a backseat driver.

This site is very different from any other, and I hope you can respect that and not destabilize it yet again. Reform may be for the better, but I ask that you leave it alone. For my sake, for tradition's sake, and for the site's current sake, please try not to meddle with wiki affairs when you merely walk in and start demanding reform.

I've been on this site for years, and I know it better than you do, whether you want to admit that or not. I know its past, its workings, and its overall framework. If you had been on this site as long as me, I'd give you credit where credit was due. You are a good editor, and I can see you have good intentions, but you honestly don't know the other side of the Str00del, the so-called immaturity, etc.

Now, if I was as immature as you have criticized me to be, would I take the time to write out this, or would I post "ZOMG HOW DARE U CRITICIZE TEH SITE I ONCE RUN ZOMG ZOMG".

I'm actually a sane person, a strange one, but sane nonetheless. I'm autistic, so I have a radically different mindset to anyone else, even other autistics, but I know this site inside and out, and I hope that you will understand my case and not try to change something you haven't helped build since 2007, as I have.

Thank you for your time, have a great day.

-- † कछुए मशरूम! Jesus Loves You and Died for You!! †    :)  :) DON'T YOU DARE QUIT BECAUSE OF WHAT I JUST TYPED!!!!!!!! † 18:04, 7 July 2009 (UTC)