Thread:Sannse/@comment-4347663-20140106214237/@comment-24433794-20140108010102

Hello, Sannse. So, I'm a fellow user of narutofanon and I tend to get on everyday. From what I can see, Swan has been speaking with you about this "something", perhaps the incident, and I've come to offer up a third perspective or second, depending if you have also contacted the admin of narutofanon: Kaycherry. Regardless, both views may be slightly distorted based on intepretation, but I have come to give an overview on the situations that Swan has been in and connect why they should affect this scenario.

Swan, once a friend of mine, is a very intelligent, inittiave, creative person and always attempts to help new users who come to the site. He's nice to everyone, lively and such, always energetic. Just a great guy to be around. However, he does possess  afew negative traits like everyone else. He's a bit too rebellious at times, and doesn't have the best sense of judgement. On certain things where he should speak up he backs off and when he should back off he speaks up. Can't entirely blame him though. People have bad judgement, haha. One more negative I see is that he has a tendancy to let his emotions spill out and they influence his behavior, similar to myself, causing him to do and say certain things regret. He is normally fine though, because I normally speak with him, but he is truly emotionally insecure, like most people his age. Again, these are things I see from speaking with him and working with him.

Truly, I think this big fuss is over the conflicts between Swan and Kay, that happen personally and emotionally rather than this one ban, which isn't a permamnent one despite the fact that he was accused of sockpuppeting, something he has done in the past. Sockpuppeting is something that results in a permanent ban, no exceptions, but one was made here. Fortunate for him, truly. Anyway, Swan and I have had personal conversations and one topic thta comes up is that he is envious and jealous of Kay because she is an admin and he isn't, despite the fact that he was there longer. While experience does matter, the number of years doesn't dictate the amount of experience someone has to something, especially in regards to this, as Swan does not get on everyday, while Kay is on almost every hour of everyday. Truly, they may be matched in experience, although she arrived about one year later.

Anywho, what i don't believe that Swan realizes is that Kaycherry is truly deserving of this status as admin, although he was technically there longer. When the wikia's admins were disbanded and things that once changed began changing back, she rose among the few users and quelled the chaos and helped our current bearucrat with the policies needed to get the wikia back on its feet. Since then, she has been active in our community and since the bearucrat's dissappearance, for almost three-four months now, she has led the wikia onto a new era of prosperity. Multiple projects have been arranged, one being that the website have our own canon storyline and such, in which everyone affects one another as if it was really a series. Quite cool, I would actually recommend checking it out. Good stuff. Anywho, I must say that while Swan is more active than one admin, he is not active enough to be one. Now, he may say that he will become more active, but he often dissappears to deal with other problems occuring. Sad, unfair may be true, but if one is not in the position to be an admin due to time issues, then they shouldn't try to become one. It only slows down the other admins when they need to vote for something or work together to build something that will benefit the site. I honestly believe that deep down this is because of this preconcieved belief of one deserving adminship. Naturally, I'm not one to judge, considering I am not in the position to become admin, or hold anything of actual responsibility. Not for me, no thanks.

Anyway, there are three situations I want to speak with you about, that Swan has been involved with which may offer up a new perspective on the entire situation at hand. He has been banned three times, this one being the third. Obviously, some bans were unfair and some situations he was put in is unfair, and I will elaborate further on these scenarios. I will also elaborate on how Swan handled these situations as well, emotionally.

One time in the past, Swan had his article deleted unjustfully, because of an admin's view. He saw it as "pointless" in truth, when it wasn't his job to delete base on that. An admin who let his emotions inteferre with his job. Common mistake, but a fatal one for him. He was stripped of his status, but so was everyone else too. Anyway, I naturally jumped to Swan's defense, informing the admin that he was wrong. Swan, composed and such, drew help from the founder of the wiki, lavibookman, who the admin respected and convinced to restore the article. His arguement was logical and showed that he had abused his duties as admin.In this scenario, Swan was cool, for the admin and him were there around the same time. They were there the same amount of time, so maybe that had some influence and maybe it didn't. Just something to consider.

The second scenario is where Swan failed to articulate himself in chat, due to his unique writing style and silly disposition in chat, causing one of the homosexual users to take offense to his statement and many others agreeing that it was uncalled for. Honestly, I thought the entire situation was blown out of proportion, because I knew Swan personally and concluded that he didn't mean for his statement to hurt anyone. I talked to the offended user, explaining that Swan didn't mean to offend him, but he was banned regardless by admin Sei, who was a previous beaurucrat of the site. Swan didn't blame the admin who ultimately decided on the issue, but rather the new user who had just joined, messaging him and discussing things, perhaps being a bit hostile. I talked the offended user who became admin right after for he really dervesed it, just said, "he seems to blame me for everything". This was on chat, so maybe I can't truly supply that statement, so it doesn't have to be included in the judgement, but realize that everything I say is my own perspective. An outsider who has been there for it all. Again, Sei was there longer and Swan didn't bother him much, even going as far to say on one of the admin articles that he was gonna his review of the technique because he didn't want to get banned. A trend start to develop here.

The last scenario I wish to inform you about is the one where a user came on and started trolling, messing up many articles, ones specially belonging to Kaycherry. Well, mostly her articles. Right when the troll was banned, swan was autoblocked because of the sam I.P address. By this time, Swan came on the site around twice a week and the relationship between him and Kaycherry was already strained. And the day he came on, wasnt one of the days and the time was peculiar. Sunday, a day where he went to church and dinner. He normally didn't come on. Around the time where dinner would normally end for people, the troll came an vandalized articles. A minute after, literally a minute, Swan left a message on the community wikia stating that he was banned. I initially believed it to be coincidence. I still do, but he was not composed. His emotions were spilling all over the place. He wasn't the same. It may have been because of the previous ban, I don't know, but he always seems to go crazy on admins who were promoted that have less experience year wise. I don't know, but this is how I see it.