Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-3312658-20140113021047/@comment-1267828-20140113070743

211.27.252.128 wrote: This is Bryn's mother. Bryn meant no insult to Republicans when posting his response. He reacted to the use of the word 'Nazi' and was trying to make the point that an entire group should not be judged by the actions of the few. As he feels passionate about the fair treatment of people he focussed on the point he was trying to make and did not think of how else it could be taken.

Bryn is truly sorry for any problems he has caused. It has been confusing at times as things that are allowed on other Wikis, and are even started by administrators, are not allowed all Wikis. He has tried to explain but feels he did not get the chance.

If anyone had looked at his profile they would have seen Bryn has Aspergers. I am not pointing this out as excuse but to help with a degree of understanding. My husband and I have spoken to Bryn and offered to make contact with you. He is happy for us to do so. Bryn understands about the ban but said he would like to clear the air and correct any misunderstandings.

Thank you for your time. Before this thread gets closed (likely) let me say thank you for the response, but your son's behavior has cemented his block.

The fact that he would call our admin 'disgusting racist trash.' because our admin responds to our troops or political entities the same way Bryn responded to Nazi's being sterotyped to all German Soldiers is, quite frankly, too far of a comment to go, especially considering Daemon never said anything about all german soldiers being Nazi's.

First off, I too have suffered from asperger's as well, and thus we would certainly judge nobody differently. All blocks, conversations, and so forth are as they are amongst everyone. We do not give allowance or hatred to one user due to mental handicap over another. All users are judged equally based on how much they either upset the community or violate the rules. All administration decisions involving large-scale blocks of over 3 months (outside of locks for sexual comments as outlined in our rules which are just done immediately) are always consulted amongst a group consensus with admins, and permanent blocks of users whom have been on the community for long periods are done either by admin vote or, in extreme cases, community vote.

Additionally, we have multiple german-born and german-raised users who frequent the wiki, one whom is fully fluent in german. The fact that we would be so mercilessly sterotyped by your son just because he is upset is not only upsetting to us, but incredibly angering. We do no such thing as sterotype, and I am personally insulted, as I am sure Daemon is as well, that we would be called racist. We have no problems with Germans, Germany, or anyone relating to German born descent, and are certainly not 'racist trash'. That comment alone is absolutely unfair beyond reason, and I know for a fact that Daemon, Seer, Cipher, and I are far more intelligent than to be so crudely insensitive to an entire ethnicity.

Your son has attacked me as his sole problem because I gave the blocks to him. The first block that was done to him was back when the wiki was mostly starting out, and it was a bit of an overreaction, which is exactly why I so drastically reduced it from months to weeks. The second block, most recently over the ban game, was brought up to ALL the admins, by me, whom all agreed "yeah, this guy is obviously just digging his heels at us and trying to start something", I was just the one who did the block after the unanimous decision. I did post that it was unanimous on his wall. That block didn't even need consensus or discussion, but I got it anyways so that I would know if I was overreacting. The most recent one was done by DaemonTheDemon, whom I agreed with on the block as well. I am not targeting your son as he seems to believe, I think he is simply stereotyping me because I am a more strict administrator than TheCipher and I'm the one who happened to dole out his two blocks before the last one.

I agree with Bryn on one thing, calling all German Soldiers "Nazi's" is racist, unfair, and rude. At the same time, he edited two pages on our wiki and changed "Nazi" to "German Soldier in World War II". The problem with that is the two pages he edited were about Nazi's. The characters in question were stated to be Nazi's. This is not us sterotyping, this is a fact. Daemon and I then found it insensitive that he would make such crass comments about the military, republicans, and the Iraq War. He had no right to say those because his edits were unjust and never needed to be made.

I will say this once more as well. I am not his friend. I do not appreciate the "Ban Game" being posted days after his ban ends. To me, to Daemon, to Seer, and to Cipher, we all saw that as an insensitive way to attack the administration over his ban, and thus we filed the incident under "Admin Disrespect" and blocked him for two weeks. I would also like to make sure to point out that we didn't just ban him for being rude to admins, but we saw it as a deliberate attempt to start a fight with the admins or invoke community problems on the wiki in spite of his ban. That is what we saw, and we decided on two weeks. That was it, two weeks. Not a year, not a month, two weeks. We jumbled between 1 week and 2 weeks before settling on two weeks, but it started as two weeks and ended as two weeks. Our reasoning was not only was this incredible rude to do, but also this thread could very easily snowball into further issues that I am not certain our community could easily handle. If he were our friend and we knew he was joking, then I would absolutely allow it, as would the other admins. That said, our interactions with Bryn have been incredibly inconsiderate thus far outside of maybe two interactions on chat that I can recall, so I would not allow it. Maybe TheCipher has had good interaction, but I have not, and Daemon and Seer have told me they haven't. Thank you for explaining to him that just because the Halo Wiki allows it, not all wiki's allowed it. If the Halo Wiki decided to replace every picture on their wiki with that of cats, that would be their perogative, but that doesn't mean automatically we have to change our pictures to cats.

I will say this last thing, however. I do not wish ill for Bryn. If he's made good friends and enjoys the community on the Halo Wiki, then more power to him, enjoy the Halo Wiki. That said, it's obvious that our admins (myself included) cannot mesh with Bryn's behavior on our wiki. He's been permanently banned since this is his third strike, and we can see this will likely be a repetitive problem. Even if we were to put it to a vote for a ban appeal; I could almost guarantee that Daemon and Seer would certainly deny his ban appeal, and I'm none too keen on it either for the rather inconsiderate comments he's made about me.

So, good luck to the future for Bryn. Whatever he does, I wish well for him. Hopefully he can use his disgust for racism to help further the political climate and stamp out racism altogether. Maybe he'll be the next big person who changes the world, I don't know.. That being said, screaming insults at us has pretty much cemented, like I said when I started, that he will not be returning to our wiki.