Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33668185-20181229231243/@comment-27514991-20181230021049

Since it was misinterpreted at the time (perhaps understandably), I was not stating that this thread was harassment, I was more alluding to the fact that making rude comments (whether to a mod or not) can be grounds for chat bans.

I find it a bit baffling why you would want us to find staff anyway. Would you rather clear up misunderstandings about your position yourself and admit to anything you've done wrong, or would you rather wait for staff to call you out for it and take action? People can attempt to clear up misgivings and misunderstandings all they want, and some people just choose not to listen.

I tend to have a lot going on and the simple answer is indeed, "life". As a kind of personal account, this is similar in a way to the first point: people can offer all the feedback they want and sometimes, people won't listen for one reason or another. Sometimes you're completely in the right, and sometimes you just have it wrong.

The reason we tell people to talk to staff is because they are quite literally the ones who make this wiki's policies and guidelines. Whether something is actually wrong is sometimes (not always, but sometimes) a subjective matter, and again, nobody is perfect.

I don't want to speak for anyone else here, so this is just me: I volunteer here when time allows which is sometimes less often than I would like. I'm not going to say people can't ultimately think what they want to, but I will say threads like this can end up being demoralizing at times.

If anyone really wants to have an in-depth conversation with me about this I'm sure we could figure something out, but tl;dr is that yeah, nobody is perfect and there's some nuance to everything.