User blog comment:ForestFairy/How to resolve conflict/@comment-25980608-20150822044318

I think this is great advice. Sometimes I tend to be a Drama Queen online, but people who know me are patient with me and know I'll calm down soon. I've learned to get off a wiki for a while and do something else so I don't make the conflict worse. It's a lot easier for me to apologize and see someone else's point of view when I'm not upset. Most of the time we work things out fine.

We did, unfortunately, have a problem on a wiki very recently with someone who had made eight edits on all of wikia two years ago and was made an admin! He did just five more edits, then was gone for two years. Then when someone applied to adopt the site, he came back and tried taking over. The adopter gave him two weeks to be adminlike, and posted links to Wikia policies, and tried being very helpful. She has a lot more patience than I have. But in those two weeks, he posted only one comment that implied that he might have any responsibility for a miscommunication. In dozens of other posts, he blamed everybody else, said we had to do things his way, and continued violating the spirit and sometimes the letter of Wikia and site policies. The weird thing is he was very productive as an editor, just not as an admin. The adopter just removed him as admin, and did it with a really nice note encouraging him to focus on editing articles and saying with more experience he could be considered for admin in the future. He hasn't been back since and I don't know if he will return.