Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-25231652-20140924124102/@comment-25231652-20140924160944

The Great Lord David wrote: ~Boggy B~ wrote: Hello. Sorry to bother you, but I don't really know where exactly I'm supposed to send "demotion requests" like these. Anyway, I'm a user from the Worms Wiki. On that wiki, there are 3 admins/bureaucrats - Koenachtig, Orangitu, and Danuhau. However, 2 of the admins are permanently inactive, leaving Danuhau the last admin. Since the Worms Wiki is technically "dying", Danuhau and I were the only users left on that wiki. However, I see Danuhau as unfit for the role as an admin/bureaucrat...

This whole time I wanted to be promoted to an admin and bureaucrat on that wiki. I've been on that wiki for a long time and I improved the wiki, I made several useful edits, long before I even created an account there. From time to time, I asked Danuhau if I could earn my promotion yet. I've only sent him a few promotion requests so far. Usually he just says I "should be patient" and I'm "rushing it", making me wait for no reason at all. Then, not too long ago, I've reached almost 1,000 Achievement Points, and asked him for the last time if I could be an admin yet and I stated my reasons why I believe I was finally worthy of a promotion. I also told him that I would leave the wiki if I don't earn my promotion, because I waited far too long. Then he responded very rudely, saying that he "doubts that I'm even the right candidate for this", and apparently didn't care if I left the wiki. So I left it, since he was being rude and I knew that he was obviously never going to promote me. But RIGHT when I decided to leave the wiki, Danuhau just blocked me. Permanently.

He really didn't need to, what if I decide to come back to the wiki later? In fact, I already do want to return to the wiki, I changed my mind about leaving it. But I can't, because I'm blocked.

There are also other reasons why I believe Danuhau shouldn't be an admin or bureaucrat, such as being (somewhat) rude towards users most of the time and sometimes unnecessarily blocks users for a ludicrous amount of time (users such as me and Q*terplx, another former contributor to the Worms Wiki), and also exaggerates sometimes in his counterarguments, like he did to me. I've already stated my other reasons why Danuhau shouldn't have acquired such rights in a ridiculously long message I've sent to the Wikia Team (from the "Special:Contact/general" page), so I'm not really going to write everything this time. I'm simply going to ask you to remove Danuhau's administrator and bureaucrat rights, and removing my block on that wiki would also be appreciated. Thank you.

(And yes, I know that Danuhau is the last admin on that wiki, but I really don't trust him to take care of the wiki since I left it. Perhaps I could be promoted to an admin instead, later. I'd do a better job than him, and interact with users more properly.) Hello, Boggy B.

Admin/Bureaucrat Demotions normally require both a really good reason for the demotion and a community discussion that supports this action. According to you, you and Danuhau are the community, so that leaves behind the reason. Although I believe admins should be kind and friendly to all users and have some sense when it comes to blocks, that is not really a reason to demote him. Admins can block for any reason and for any time they wish. Regarding, your promotion, if he doesnt see you as a candidate, you´ll just have to change that and work even harder (once your block is solved that is) or make him see that you have earned the admin status. You did very well in contacting Staff about this using Special:Contact but if after that message was sent and he still retained his rights, it´s because the reason to demote him was not enough. You can try to contact them again and expose the situation but the result will probably be the same.

If Danushau ever goes inactive and you are unblocked from the wiki, you may consider making an adoption but in my view this is something that you both can solve on your own, the blocks, the promotions, everything and there is no real need for a member of Staff to get involved. Good Luck. Actually, Danuhau and I aren't the only ones left in the wiki. A new user came after my block, his name is "PartHunter". Also, he blocked me permanently, so there isn't really anything I could do on the Worms Wiki.

Anyway, I did work hard enough, really, and I did earn the admin status. Yet he refused to promote me and blocked me instead. Seriously, Orangitu promoted him in only a few weeks, and I was also there, supporting him and agreeing to him becoming an admin, and he WAS polite to me and Orangitu at first, thanking us for the support and the promotion. I never had an account at the time. Now I have an account (obviously), yet all he did was make we wait for no reason at all for a few months, and eventually refusing to promote me, which forced me to leave the wiki. And then he blocked me permanently. Seriously, he's too much of a douche-bag to be an admin in my honest opinion, I regret supporting him before he became an admin, really. I should have disagreed to him becoming an admin instead. Besides, he blocked Q*terplx for a long time as well, without even giving us any evidence to back up his reasons for blocking him. I also really dislike the "admins can block for any reason or no reason at all" rule.

I still think demoting him is best for my wiki, and I would really appreciate it, but if you don't remove his admin rights, that's fine, as long as my block is removed. Oh well, I'll try to reason with him on Community Central. And I'll try not to say anything particularly rude or offensive (I wish I could, though), because that would only make things worse. Thanks for the help.