Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-23523342-20151226132850/@comment-5454372-20151229011839

Given that this now concerns a specific incident that Staff have already looked at, I'd like to advise you that seeking our opinions as support likely won't change the outcome. Yes, we're arguably an impartial third-party perspective, but it also means we are not part of that community -- our opinions are not the desires of that particular community.

In terms of seeking our opinion purely for insight: admins in principle are people who are chosen (as well as removed) by the community -- it's not a given right for admins to continue remaining admins. The discussion/voting thread ran for a week, which is more than enough time for any active users to see it and voice their opinion -- from what was seen in there, you generally didn't have the support of the community any longer at that point. It's irrelevant whether the discussion became a vote or not, because it established what the community's opinion was (including for any active users who didn't talk in it during that one week -- they had close to two weeks to voice their opinion if they didn't agree with the majority at any point).

As a sidenote: admins attempting to block or interfere with discussions about their own adminship is a huge foul. From what I've read in there, attempting to skew how the overall opinion looked by posing as a new user would not be viewed favourably by staff -- that one action alone may already have been enough for them to revoke adminship over regardless of how the discussion was actually going.

In either case, I wish you good luck, SniperKing1: if a community no longer wishes to have someone as an admin, then it's no longer that person's time to be an admin there, irrespective of how else people feel about the situation. If it was the additional editing and control capabilities that drew you to the position, I'd suggest creating a personal test wiki to learn and experiment more with the functions; but otherwise, an admin should be on good terms with the community he/she is serving, so perhaps it'd be best to start from there if you wish to try another wiki.