Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-424719-20150227055854

1 week ago today, I posted a forum asking the community to remove our only active bureuacrat for a series of abuses. The two main points are that he was constantly abusing/bullying me and allowed personal feelings to influence his capacity as a bureaucrat. You can read all about it here if you like.

Before doing this, I contacted Wikia Support who advised me of how to do a community vote and recommended that I do it. I decided to do so and what followed was a 3-4 day discussion regarding hfc2x's abuses, which can also be read at that link. He and NeoSuperior (An inactive admin who came back for this) both contended that this was a personal issue between us, and I continued to defend that it wasn't. Regardless, everything was going well at this point with policy being followed and such.

However, hfc2x decided to demote himself to admin and promote NeoSuperior to bureaucrat. This was done during a turbulent time for the wiki, was a rash decision, and completely ignored our protocol for nominating a bureaucrat. I asked NeoSuperior to step down from his position and allow the community vote to go through, after which we would worry about our new bureaucrat. He refused and made clear his intention that hfc2x and myself (Admin) should step down from our positions and allow him to make the final decision. This took power away from the community so I refused and again asked that he step down. He again refused and the discussion stopped Saturday. After this, I messaged wikia support who informed me that they did not want to get involved in demoting NeoSuperior.

The following Thursday, or yesterday at the time of writing, NeoSuperior carried out his own form of justice. I was stripped of my rank and blocked from the wiki for 3 months when I contend that I did nothing wrong. He also took power away from the community, ended the vote early, ignored it's results, and announced that another vote would not be going up. The original bureuacrat, Hfc2x, resigned from his positions but was not blocked in a deal that was apparently worked out behind the scenes. At the current time of writing, I am awaiting a response from Wikia support where I requested that NeoSuperior be blocked for his abuses and myself, as the only suitable candidate, be elevated to bureaucrat.

My only intention with all this was to have the right thing done. Hfc2x carried out serious abuses that damaged the wiki and now NeoSuperior is even worse. I'm asking for you to offer a comment and let me know what you think. Any advice would be greatly appreciated at this time since I am currently wrongfully blocked and the wiki only has one active admin/bureaucrat, NeoSuperior.--PrelateZeratul (talk) 05:58, February 27, 2015 (UTC) 