Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4731447-20150622225159/@comment-9300845-20150622234117

Absolutely not.

His misbehavior, starting late last year, has changed how I feel about him. It started when he briefly banned Gameruser10 from chat out of sheer jest, back when he still was an admin, albeit a very inactive one. For me, that was an instance of serious abuse of power, not that he was horrible as an admin but it made me doubt his integrity.

He has claimed several times that he was okay with being demoted because he didn't consider his position on the wiki to be too terribly important compared to his real life. But on the night he was demoted, he started flipping out in chat. Later in December last year, he deliberately spammed links to pornographic websites, and was banned from chat for a week.

To be completely honest, it really unnerves me whether he's on chat (in fact, my hands are shaking as I'm typing this) and that there's bad blood between him and me. I believe he once sent a sockpuppet to chat in order to spam in late February, although I was unable to verify through CheckUser.

Now, people on chat may like him, but somehow I feel that he encourages bad behavior. Earlier this month, users had something called "2012 Night," where they spam messages and shallow sexual jokes in caps lock. I don't remember or care who started 2012 Night, but at one point Gameuser10 and I politely expressed our dissent, and users, including OctagonDinosaur, had the nerve to disrespect us. He even criticized WaterDemonBaku for being late to warn him not to abuse caps lock. I'm thinking he no longer has any respect for the wiki or its admins and mods.

As mentioned earlier, OctagonDinosaur and I aren't exactly on good terms. Earlier this month in chat, I confessed that I felt that I was being harassed by him. Chuua then contacted me via PM and revealed that OctagonDinosaur had been using his sockpuppet as a "spy account" in order to spy on me. That was the final straw, and I banned him infinitely. At last, the weight had been lifted off my shoulders.

Even with his history of sockpuppeting (which is a serious violation as outlined in our rules,) users still want him to return. Um, what the heck? I know you think he's a cool guy and all that, but he still broke the rules. He doesn't deserve another chance. Nobody is and should be above the rules, even the admins' best buddies.

(Okay, there's this other user who has had a history of sockpuppeting multiple times, but their reasons are entirely different from OctagonDinosaur's, and I'd rather not go into details at this time.)

In spite of my problems with him, there was a time when I actually enjoyed conversing with OctagonDinosaur instead of being annoyed with him. If he were to be unbanned, I'd like to try to resolve our conflict peacefully, and move on. Also, he'd need to straighten himself out and not try to harass me or anyone else. I'm getting tired of my being angry with him, and I just want it to end.