User blog:Phineas99cp/Inactivity lately - Demotion Maybe?

Hello there

I'd really like to create awareness that a vote was made on the Club Penguin Wiki:Demotion Project to demote me for my activity done lately on the wiki. While I am not forcing you to vote for or against, I'd really like to take some time to explain the current situation as well to defend myself. The decision is yours and personal, but still, I'd appreciate if you took some time reading this.

I'd like to start off with explaining why I have been "inactive" lately. My family has been using my computer a lot lately. My sister needs to use it for school, homework, studies, etc while my mom for personal stuff. Still, even if I have the time sometimes I have to do other things like taking care of my siblings. I could've made a blog post about it, but I thought it wasn't that big and I didn't expect this situation to happen, or to notify users that I'll be "gone" while in reality, things are subject to change in all of a sudden. That is also a reason of why I leave chat in all of a sudden.

Secondly, many people are saying that I barely do any edits, they're pointless, and that most are file-related. It's actually upsetting to see that my work hasn't been appreciated enough, thus increasing my desires of leaving the wiki. Honestly, every contribution counts, and some take time. Some take a lot of effort than others. In my case, it's kinda frustrating to extract the room exterior pictures I've been getting lately, as well hoping to have time to investigate certain things like adding the dates of certain rooms that opened on the CP App while simultaneously having chance to do other personal things like MyWorld (although it seems like not much people care about it), events on the wiki, and even a new project I've thought of revealing sometime later. The new project isn't that big or somehow help the wiki drastically, but I'd bring back a lot of nostalgia probably. I'll make a blog post about it soon and back to the topic, people still complain that my images aren't cropped perfectly while in reality, it seems like I can't. I tried Paint.Net and for some reason it doesn't crop the image. Same thing with GIMP. I've a lot of things I'd really like to do for the wiki other than editing but unfortunately, I don't have much time.

As for my activity on the wiki, I try to do more than just editing and chatting. I try to approach more to the users, make the wiki more interesting, and even do other things in my free time likes customs. It's not that easy as what you think. It may not count as patroller experience sadly. I still try to do things like events. What happened with the Camp Penguin Color Contest and the CPW Awards? I am hoping to host them soon unless someone decides to host it right away.

As for the comparison between my main and file edits, MANY pages are composed of files which I uploaded. Of course, some got removed and I am sure there are still lost files uploaded by me. Still, I tend to upload every single file I have related to something and add the content to its page instead of uploading the same files at once that are related with something and add the content to its page eventually, counting it as the same amount of files I've made? What I see by many people is that it's better to have 20 mainspace edits of 20 files than 1 mainspace edit of 20 files of the same thing. That's somewhat called itnermediate edits and I think some admins even got demoted due to that. In fact, that's the main reason why medals were removed from the wiki. Because people were abusing this. It's like trying to add a period, then a coma, then capitalizing a letter, then another period, and so on 5 times instead of all once. Admins like User:Fottymaddy got demoted due to that. I tend to edit a lot in a edit then do nothing like 1-3 days later and go back to editing spree again instead of small edits everyday.

You might say that most of my files are pointless because they're personal. Is it forbidden to upload as much personal files as I desire? Even b-crats do that so why can't I?

You might say my current activity as a patroller hasn't been much. That's somehow true. There is barely any bad activity going on in here so there isn't a big use of my patroller rights.

I'll be honest, I've been uploading a lot of files relating with room exterior lately. I will still keep doing that in the near future as well other things like cutouts, backgrounds, and even try to redirect pages with similar relationship.

Below, there are some polls that I genuinely hope you vote.

Do you think I am a good patroller? Yes No

Do you think I should be demoted? Yes No

I won't interfere with your decision if voting for or against. I actually appreciate the honesty of certain people, yet I still find certain things frustrating like how my edits aren't being appreciated enough but then again, the truth hurts depending on your point of view and that's what I see.

If there is anything I am failing as a patroller, then just tell me. If I'm actually getting demoted, then at least I'd make my last days as a patroller worth it. As for my decision of leaving the wiki, I wouldn't leave because of by patroller rights being taken away, but the lack of appreciation I view towards certain people. In fact, if I get demoted by valid reasons, then that's ok. Just please be honest in your vote.

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