Thread:SamwiseFilmore/@comment-25356210-20151104144051/@comment-25330335-20151106003016

Alright Ed. I don't know if you will read this, but here is my take on the situation. It may not make you feel much better, but it is how I understand it. You can definitely correct me if I am wrong anywhere.

I know you pretty well Ed, so I know that (whether you like me saying it or not) that you have a tendency to blow things out of proportion a bit. In regards to resolving the situation, if they accuse you of doing something, and give you a little penalty, or insult you, just let it go. Wash over or around you. Don't let it get under your skin. They may not like you, but that doesn't mean that you have to argue back, and give them more reason to criticize you.

Some of this stuff, I am not sure what part you played, or what part anyone else played. I was doing other things, and never got involved in the conversation, and, in many case, never even saw the thread. I know that you may have done something small at first, like closed a thread that was causing a lot of conflict, etc. It may have made someone mad, and then they reported you to one of these FB mods, who came, reopened the thread, and continued the argument. Then you stepped in, and began arguing your fairly easily justifiable side, and they countered with other things, and, as above, things got blown out of proportion. It ended with the FB mod in question getting upset, or, as the case may be, disliking you, and possibly banning you. I don't agree with a lot of the stuff FB mods do, say or make fun of. What they see as 'mature', I see as crude. And so on.

If you encounter a situation like mentioned above, I would suggest, if the scenario proceeds to the point where you and the FB mod have made an exchange, I would call in another admin, preferably Gen, quietly, without saying that you are going to get reinforcements. You want to do this fairly early so that you don't say something that you might regret later. If I may, I feel that if you regret something, then you have that scrap of decency in you, no matter who you are. For these arguments, the FB mods have made really rude comments, and even if the comment comes back to bite them in the butt, they don't seem to regret it. I would also say that part of the reason this mod has such a great community is because of the people here on the wiki. We have a more welcoming community here than on the FB page, I feel. So on the whole, I think that both sides have to clean up their acts a bit. If you can try and stay calm during situations like this, then maybe the FB mods will be a little more welcoming.

SamwiseFilmore (Admin)  (Fill My Mailbox) 00:30, November 6, 2015 (UTC)