Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27148182-20170328132831/@comment-4384018-20170401142537

Mario&amp;LuigiBowser&#039;sInsideStory wrote: If Blue wishes to demote himself, he can do it himself. I actually cannot (unless the patroller rights have changed?) demote myself.

I believe the rights I have extend to deleting and protecting pages, rolling back edits, deleting threads/comments, and chat moderator rights (Correct me if I'm wrong.)

Which brings me to my initial point - the "seldom use of patroller rights." I do not doubt this assessment, it very well is likely true, but I wish to know exactly which rights you wish me to use more often. Do you have more an issue on my lack of editing in general, or do you want me to take a more active role in either protecting or deleting pages, and moderating threads and the like? If either, I will provide a proper response to that.

Next, I'd like to tackle my primary offense - inactivity. I will not in anyway deny that I have been inactive a pretty inexplicable period of time, without any announced, formal explanation. Allow me to present one: school. Primarly, schoolwork and homework take up around 100% of my time, and leave me physically and mentally exhausted. A second reason would be that exhaustion itself. I've been in reoccuring periods of severe depression and general fatigue for the last couple of months now, which I can't say have helped my activity in any way. I do feel better now so that isn't as much of an issue, and either way explanations don't exactly absolve me of being held accountable for my inactivity. I just want to provide a reason why.

Perhaps more of a transgression is my way of handling my inactivity; that is, not handling it at all. In my profound lack of energy I have neglected to put as much thought into this role as I should be. I have allowed myself to slide into a lull where I don't put active effort into anything in my life, reasoning that I do not matter so my positions and responsibilities similarly do not matter. This, however, is incorrect. My responsibilities to others should be able to transcend the bindings of my own failures, and for that I apologize.

Regarding my chat moderator rights - I do use them. You cannot say that I do not, because that is simply untrue. The apparent illusion that I do not use them is from the fact of my inactivity, which I have covered in my previous paragraphs. Regarding my patroller rights - this is more of a case of a general ignorance on my part of the extent of my abilities as a patroller than a neglegence of my duties as such. This has come from the distant time from my initial promotion, my inactivity, and my general poor memory. I will make a point of refamiliarizing myself with the abilities should I avoid demotion. It is true that I have stated I wouldn't specifically mind my demotion, but I confess that that is not entirely true. I very much do not wish to be demoted. I simply wish to respect the wishes of the community if they decide it is the best course of action. I can only hope my response hopes to sway some in the direction of a clemency of sorts.

Now, on my plan to combat these transgressions. From hence forth, I WILL make it a point to visit the wiki as many times a week as I can. I wish to say all days a week, but I feel a more realistic and achievable goal would be 4 or 5 days a week, at least to start off, and I will see if all seven days is an obtainable prospect. I also believe that in order to properly handle this, that my activity be monitored as a test. If I fail to become more active in the next two weeks, then you are free to remove my rights, as it will be clear I am unable to maintain them. Should I succeed in becoming active on, say, 9 of the 14 next days, then I formally request that I be allowed to keep my rights. It is, of course, up to the community to ponder the validity of and/or alter my plan.

I believe that is all I can say on the matter at the moment. I apologize for the length of my post and the formality of it, I hope it does not give one the false impression that I am feigning some form of false intelligence in pretentiousness. It is simply a habit of mine to try to get my point across clearly. Please correct me if I have said anything false, or if I have not addressed a specific grievance one has against me.