Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-25231652-20140924124102/@comment-25231652-20140926191156

The Great Lord David wrote: ~Boggy B~ wrote: The Great Lord David wrote: ~Boggy B~ wrote: Actually, Danuhau and I aren't the only ones left in the wiki. A new user came after my block, his name is "PartHunter". Also, he blocked me permanently, so there isn't really anything I could do on the Worms Wiki.

Anyway, I did work hard enough, really, and I did earn the admin status. Yet he refused to promote me and blocked me instead. Seriously, Orangitu promoted him in only a few weeks, and I was also there, supporting him and agreeing to him becoming an admin, and he WAS polite to me and Orangitu at first, thanking us for the support and the promotion. I never had an account at the time. Now I have an account (obviously), yet all he did was make we wait for no reason at all for a few months, and eventually refusing to promote me, which forced me to leave the wiki. And then he blocked me permanently. Seriously, he's too much of a douche-bag to be an admin in my honest opinion, I regret supporting him before he became an admin, really. I should have disagreed to him becoming an admin instead. Besides, he blocked Q*terplx for a long time as well, without even giving us any evidence to back up his reasons for blocking him. I also really dislike the "admins can block for any reason or no reason at all" rule.

I still think demoting him is best for my wiki, and I would really appreciate it, but if you don't remove his admin rights, that's fine, as long as my block is removed. Oh well, I'll try to reason with him on Community Central. And I'll try not to say anything particularly rude or offensive (I wish I could, though), because that would only make things worse. Thanks for the help. The truth is Danahau is the one who has the power to promote and thus that makes him the one who has to decide if you earned the status or not, not you. You may believe you have done enough to gain the admin position (Im not saying you haven´t) but he is the one who has the last word. 452´s links should provide some help with getting your block removed and maybe in the future, achieving the admin position. As you said make sure to be polite and friendly and not saying anything like "I want you demoted", "you must behave like a real admin", "I demand that you unblock me" and so on. Him being an admin doesn't make him "special" or "the boss of the wiki", which means he can't do whatever he wants. Being an admin only means you only have a few extra abilities, such as deleting pages or blocking users. Anyway, Danuhau knows I worked hard, I did work hard enough to earn a promotion indeed, but he refuses to promote me for... Different reasons. He says he dislikes the way I've behaved towards certain users (vandals) and the way I harassed them, although I used to harass them a VERY long time ago and I even stated once that I don't do it anymore, even to vandals.

And after I said I earned almost 1,000 Achievement Points (990 to be exact) while giving out reasons why I deserved to be promoted, he simply told me I never earned those badges through hard work. That's actually partially true, that one badge he was talking about is the "And One More Thing" badge, which I earned after spamming a few blog posts (I was bored with nothing else to do on the wiki, and I was the only user on that wiki along with Danuhau, therefore no-one could create new blog posts for me to comment on, in order to earn the badge). This is what I meant when I said he exaggerates in his counterarguments.

He also believed I was immature, only because of a few old links I had at the top of my profile, the "My Website" and "My Twitter" links to be exact. I was only playing with links (bored again) and I forgot to remove them afterwards. Another thing I remember is, he said I was still "rushing it", but that's only because I got tired of waiting for no reason at all while Danuhau does absolutely nothing. He says he's busy with life, although it only takes a few damn minutes to promote someone. Or maybe even less, I don't really know.

I sent him a message on his Message Wall anyway, on this wiki. If he is a bureaucrat and an admin then its up to him to decide if you should be promoted to admin or not. For example, just because a user thinks he should be promoted to a Staff member doesn´t mean they will. Even so, he must have his reasons not to have promoted you yet. For example you said in your message you harrased vandals, that is not really something positive towards your promotion. Harrasing vandals can bring many problems to you and the wiki.

Well, good luck with the message. Excuse me, but I don't think you read the part where I said "he dislikes the way I've behaved towards certain users (vandals) and the way I harassed them, although I used to harass them a VERY long time ago and I even stated once that I don't do it anymore, even to vandals". And Danuhau knew that. He was probably just trying to come up with excuses for not promoting me.

And yes, I know it's up to him, because he's obviously the one who's promoting me. And he did have his reasons for not promoting me, I already told you his reasons, and they clearly weren't good reasons. Refusing to promote me because of my supposed "immaturity" (because of two links that used to be on my profile), not earning some random badge through hard work, something I don't even do anymore (harassing vandals), and "rushing" my promotion (I waited for months and Danuhau literally does nothing while I make hundreds of edits). Great reasons for not promoting me, don't you think?

Anyway, let's just wait until Danuhau replies. I don't really see a point in continuing this discussion, so... Good luck with whatever you plan on doing.