Thread:Maltalidenta Kwuitidherali/@comment-25012056-20160417173756/@comment-4750818-20160417184321

Look, Heartgold. I've known Grievous for almost as long as this wiki exists. He may have his faults, but one thing he is not is a liar. I'm pretty sure what he said is true:


 * You have also have threatened to use a VPN if banned.

That statement -- you threatening to use a VPN if banned -- is very bad. Worse even than a direct insult to a moderator as far as I'm concerned. It's not just bad, it's illegal. What you are saying there clearly implies that you are willing to break real-world laws in order to dodge a ban on the wiki -- that is what the Jagex troll uses, and don't tell me that you're coming down to his level. Just that statement alone is worthy of a permanent ban IMO.


 * But what pushed us over the edge is a direct insult to a moderator, on the Dorwinion retexture thread that Faenor made.

The members of the mod team might spend most of their time giving us memes, but that's still no reason to directly insult them. It'd be one thing if that were the first time you were disrespectful, but it's not. Insulting users repeatedly results in a one week ban.


 * We have warned you several times to stop being disrespectful towards staff. We had a vote last night on whether or not to ban you, and ban won five to one of the people present. In the end we decided to give you a final chance anyway, but a certain moderator said that you still need a punishment of some sort. This is what had happened, and this shall stay.

It'd be one thing if you did what you did if you were an ordinary user. But you were a chat moderator. All wiki staff, including chat moderators, are required to abide by the Staff Etiquette, and to set a good example for all other users. We don't want people being under the impression that they cannot trust the wiki's staff. In short: your position increased the severity of your offenses.

Count yourself lucky that I wasn't present at the time. If it'd been me instead of Grievous, I would've handed out a ban lasting at least one month immediately, and a permanent ban would not have been out of the question.

In future, think about what you write. If you wouldn't tell something to somebody's face, don't tell it to them online. Follow that rule and you might regain your former rank and possibly advance in the ranks. Break that rule and you've made a grievous mistake, one that'll almost certainly result in your being stuck by cold, hard steel.

Glflegolas (admin) Send a Messenger  18:43, April 17, 2016 (UTC)