Thread:AEROdaBOO/@comment-4620155-20130602082154

Although I agree that ComradeJ and EpaX is both at fault like everyone else said, I felt that EpaX was more at fault. He should have slowed down and waited for ComradeJ to respond back. In my opinion, he shouldn't assume that Comrade was ignoring him. I understand that the situation at the time may be tense, but it doesn't give him the right to block Comrade.A block should be issued when someone is obviously vandalizing the wiki. I'm sure Comrade didn't mean to purposely destroy the wiki by adding in wrong categories, and she shouldn't be blocked for that. She has been here since 2010, and she should already be consensus about the way things work here on the wiki. I believe that all moderators, under any certain circumstances, should respect the rules at all times. I would like to note that EpaX was indeed, saying mean things to Comrade, especially when he said that Comrade will lose a job. As for a suggestion next time, he should be a bit more friendly.

Please take heed that at the time of the incident, I had 15 minutes to spare before I had to leave for school in the morning. I checked the wiki news feed and saw that your friend ComradeJ was adding categories to lots of articles - the most recent being 2 minutes ago. As I looked at the news feed, I saw that many were wrong categories. I thought to myself 'alright, this doesn't seem that many, I can revert them quickly before I leave'. As I scrolled down, I noticed she made over 70 inconstructive edits, the first being around half an hour ago. I thought to myself 'okay, this seems a lot, but I should manage'. After reverting about half of the poor edits, I checked the news feed and, to my dismay, saw ComradeJ making even more poor edits. I decided that I'd have to notify her of her huge blunder before I resumed cleaning this mess up - which I did, via a thread. After posting the thread, I cleaned up some more of her mess before checking the news feed again. When I checked the news feed again, I saw ComradeJ making even more poor edits, and my thread untouched. I thought 'okay, she ignored my thread and is making even more mess. I've already missed my usual train for staying back and cleaning this mess, so I have to make a decision quick. Perhaps a short block (1 hour is the shortest option possible) will get through to her.' So I blocked her for 1 hour, in order to stop more of her poor edits. After cleaning up the last of the poor edits, I reviewed the news feed and saw that ComradeJ and I were the only ones who edited for the past hour. Sure, there could have been another staff member on at the time - if that were true, why didn't they revert ComradeJ's blatantly bad edits? The answer is, because there wasn't anyone else on at the time. Deducing that I wouldn't be on for another 3 hours, I quickly made the safe precaution of extending her block for an extra hour.

Now, when I got back on the Wiki 3 hours later to see how things are going, I find a harshly worded message from an 'anonymous user'.

"Moderator powers are not to be abused. Please stop abusing your moderator powers. You have no right to block me. I patiently waited for an hour so reply to my message wall, but you decided to extend my ban. I am taking note of this, and will watch you carefully now. Keep it up, and your moderator rank will be stripped."

I was absolutely speechless. Not only did your friend ComradeJ unjustly criticise me, she didn't even acknowledge her own faults. I found her comment to be very harsh and harassing. I tried to reason my way with her but all she continued to do was criticise my actions.

You say I was being mean by saying she'd lose her job? Please note that that reply was around the 50th, and after an entire day of pointless arguing. She had just been proven wrong on a point and I asked her to apologise. Instead, she stubbornly refuses and says "I've already stated that I am not apologizing to you." There is a certain point when people snap. You, of all people, should understand. That was my breaking point.

Finally, friendship is not a requirement for someone to do their job well. Should a person, who is capable of doing their job efficiently, be fired because he's unfriendly? 