Thread:JoePlay/@comment-26366-20180515171022/@comment-1628508-20180515180302

I am going to tell you my side of the story so you can get a better understanding as to how you were banned.

First and foremost was the leaderboard point spamming edits. Adding pages to a category (which is not a guideline but simple house cleaning at best) was one thing, but to add content to those pages for no justifiable reason, which did include images, came across as just spamming for leaderboard rank. If that wasn't the case, I apologize, but you gave me every reason to believe that was the case.

Secondly was that someone reported that you added their active fed to the inactive category. I would have seen this as a harmless mistake if there weren't multiple sketchy edits done in quick succession before this. Because of that, I decided to give you the ban for leader point spamming and one reported count of vandalism, which I will admit 1 year may be a harsh sentence but was not a mistake to do so given the number of sketchy edits during the ordeal.

Now, the reason I didn't indulge about this matter was because of this line.


 * Man - you do your best. Help set up the wikia in the first place, transfer e-fed articles from the main wikipedia before they get deleted, do some general admin, get a passive aggressive message from Mack420 when you make a genuine error and then get banned by Brent. No thanks for helping start this wiki, no thanks for all your work, nothing. Nada. Just banned.

This came across as gody, because A) you may be a long-term member but with only 398 edits since 2006, a large number of which being from the day in question, but people have been more active a year than you were in 12, which immediately dismisses any reason for special treatment and B) because you played victim when all evidence pointed towards your error. I wasn't going to indulge in a war of words with you, I changed your ban so you couldn't edit your talk page and wiped it clean so that the ordeal can just be forgotten. I made no mistake, you gave me every reason to ignore your requests of unbanning and further adding it to the Ewrestling Wikia adoption thread that both had nothing to do with the matter and was already a closed discussion point only convinced me more that I made the right choice.

With that being said, I have read your story and will take you for your word that your intentions were good but handled wrong. I will shorten your ban to the natural length of a first reported vandalism of 1 week under the notion that this won't happen again. If it does, I don't wanna hear you complaining about how you deserve better treatment for being a long time member, you get the same treatment as anyone else.