Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-4060139-20160716013845/@comment-5961377-20160717121740

So instead of just telling people like Stick to cut out the disrespect, you will instead blame me for failing to ignore such inflammatory language? Seems a bit prejudiced. Besides, I have tried to ignore it, but they continue to taunt, make sarcastic / passive aggressive comments, and still nobody does anything about it. Many times that has happened, and nobody so much as warns the scoffers.

I have evidence of such disrespect, but it seems that people are still trying to shift the blame and are using it as an argument to discredit me. Do not act like I am the sole cause of these "ridiculous" events. I've done my share to try and diffuse the anger and heat from these arguments. Seems that most people I ask can only tell me to look away and hum, letting such disrespect go on unpunished. Trying to help out and suggesting things to people in order to avoid unnecessary conflict is usually met with "get off your high horse." Let me make it clear, I'm not saying that I'm superior to you. I'm just telling you that whatever you're doing might result in more drama and conflict.

I challenge these claims of me not having changed. I challenge these claims that there's a different side of me in chat. I challenge the notion that promoting me was a mistake, as if the damage I'd done outweighed the contributions I've made.

"But he was demoted before" is a bad argument. I suggest people stop living in the past. Stop reading into my words, looking only to confirm your suspicions. Perform proper, unbiased exegesis and I think you'll see that I'm no troublemaker.

/rant

As for me not having proven myself, I agree. I hope to be in better circumstances in the future, and thus be able to make consistent contributions again. I'm fine being a patroller and I recognize my inactivity.

Doesn't stop me from supporting diligent people like Kaiju. If not now, then I hope he is promoted soon. I also hope he will be more involved in the community. My two cents.