Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-4822327-20140620210031

For a couple weeks, we've had problems with the Squirrel emoticon on our chat. One user was spamming it, and he was blocked (among other reasons). Anyway, some of the mods don't like the emoticon, and recently it was deleted from the list of available emoticons . The discussion is also here (I suggest looking here to get a good view of the argument). It seems pretty insignificant when you look at the issue, but my stance is that it is restricting our freedom of speech on the wiki. The users were not abusing the emoticon, and it didn't stand for anything wrong, so there wasn't any just reason for it's deletion.

Now, some of the moderators are willing to fix it and bring the emoticon back. However, others have stated, verbatim, that "Imp and MP can re-instate the squirrel as much as they want. I'll just put ban me again".

We just want the squirrel back, without fear of it being taken. There was no reason that it should have been taken in the first place. If you can do something, please do so. The page is here, and the is here. If there is somewhere else that I should go to have this issue addressed, please direct me there so I can have this resolved as quickly as possible. Thank you for your time.

Sincerely,

CourageousLife

Constable on the Alternative History Wiki 