User blog comment:Forestpaw13/Loss of Admin/@comment-1333071-20111022142915

Okay, since our decision seems so controversial, I'm explaining this here and now on the blog.

We banned Wetty because she broke a rule. Arti's blog CLEARLY outlined that if ANYBODY uploaded three pictures, they would be banned for three days. Anybody can go read it! It's there!

Wetty's rights were taken away because Arti and I both felt that Wetty was not doing a good job with the responsibility she had been given. We had been noticing it for a while, too, and we had been discussing it privately for a while and considering it. Wetty breaking that one rule and spamming the community messages kind of put it over the edge. Like, really far. So Arti and I made the joint decision to take action not only as admins but as leaders.

I know that this decision (which I seem to be getting all the credit for, which I feel is unfair) is extremely controversial. I've been getting a lot of crap lately, as well.

I'm going to ask you guys a question, now, and let's pretend that all of you are admins and your two other admins are the people you trust the most. I don't care who it is. Just pretend. ''One of the people you trust the most fails to do their duty as an administrator and breaks some rules that everybody else is following. What would you do?'' (And don't say that you'd keep their rights because you're their friend. Because that's seriously not how it works.)

If anybody else attacks me on the IRC, I will seriously flip out. Because not only have I found that I am apparently a "coward" and a "dumbass" (excuse my French), but I have also found that enforcing rules makes me scary and not a good admin. (Who lets 11-year-olds on wikis? Me. Enough said.)

And with that, I shall hit "Post comment" and hope that my fellow wikians agree with our decision. And if you don't, sorry, what's done is done.