The Demon's Light Wiki:Requests/Administrator/C.Syde65

Hello. Due to a recent agreement that was made, I C.Syde65 have been given the opportunity to request for my administrator rights back. I was forced to resign temporarily a short while ago, only because of something that I said in a Direct Message about me wanting to ban a user from chat out of anger. But I was never really going to ban them for it, because I knew that it would be against the rules of this wiki.

I didn't know that it would be made public. If I had, I wouldn't have said it. I now understand that it is wrong of me to say things like that, even in Private Message/Direct Message, if I don't really intend to do them. And I'm really sorry that I said it in the first place. I was suffering from a ban over at Community Central, because I was fearful that people may lose their faith in me because some people do judge users over whether they've been banned, rather than what they are like as a user.

I had know idea that I would be forced to resign so easily. I truly regret what I said, and want to be given a chance to prove myself, because ever since I was forced to resign, I have been pushing really hard to regain my rights so that I can continue to help the wiki improve by doing things that I can't do as a non-admin. I have three years worth of administrative experience, and I have a lot of experience with editing MediaWiki pages, checking to make sure if redirects and stuff are unused before deleting them, or nominating them for deletion.

I know how to deal with vandals and trolls, and if I am ever in a situation where I don't know if I can make a right decision, I know to talk it over with other administrators and editors before taking any actions that may deem controversial. I was an administrator here until recently, and while I was an admin, I did things that I thought were right for the wiki. I may have made one mistake back in June about unbanning a user, but I was feeling peer pressured at the time, and I wasn't nearly as accustomed to the rules as I am today. Come to think of it, the rules weren't nearly as defined back then as they are now. Heck. I can still remember when people would kick each other from chat, and people would take it lightly.

I hope people will consider my request to regain my rights in advance, and I will try to address any queries or concerns about my application, should they ever arise. But I assure you, I have no intention of abusing my rights. I don't vandalise pages. I don't vandalise MediaWiki pages. I don't delete articles that shouldn't be deleted, and when I say I don't delete articles, I mean articles that the community obviously wants to keep as a whole. I serve certain wikis as an admin, so that I can help those wikis to grow. And even if I'm not an admin on them, I still try and do my best to make them improve anyway.

Since I joined Wikia in December 2013, I worked hard to give others a positive impression, and I would never vandalise or do anything in bad faith on purpose. I care too much about what others think about me and whether I'm a valuable asset as a user on Wikia. If I were to become a troll or vandal, then that may just result in the destruction of the faith a lot of the users have in me. And to lose that would not do me any good.

Trolling and vandalising would not give me any pleasure since there's always bound to be consequences for deliberate acts that are in bad faith. And there's nothing that I would gain from trolling and vandalising personally. Most people that vandalise and troll do it out of boredom, because they have nothing better to do. But for me, I have a lot of things that I can think of that are much more fun. Editing articles is a lot of fun. Trolling and vandalising just for a laugh might sound like fun, but for a user that has worked hard to help various wikis, the consequences would take any fun out of trolling and vandalising. If there's any fun in trolling and vandalising, the consequences would be guaranteed to wipe the fun away.

Even without my chat moderator rights, I have worked hard to moderate the chat, even if I can't use the kick and ban tools that I have demonstrated experience and care in using. There was a raid in chat earlier today, and during that time, I was watching the kicks and bans, wishing that I could have helped to kick and ban some of the sock-puppet accounts myself. My PC doesn't usually lag, so had I had my chat moderator rights then, I probably would have managed to kick or ban at least some of the sock accounts. A little while ago, I also helped to revert some vandalism that took place here. I have gotten back my rollback rights, but if I still had my admin rights then, I could have been more effective in dealing with the vandal. The vandal was a vandalbot, so I probably was better off to wait for the admins to deal with it, or for VSTF to deal with it, but I've still proven to be very effective at counter vandalism, and even counter raiding.

I hope that with the reasons that I have provided, that people will support my request in advance. I would really appreciate it, and if anyone is hesitant about supporting my request, I will only be too happy to address their concerns. Remember. I am an editor of this wiki, because I want to be here to help the community and the wiki grow. When I first joined, I didn't really know the wiki very well, in-fact I was actually invited, but over time, my dedication and loyalty towards this wiki grew. And recently, I even spared time that I would have given to working on other wikis, so that I could work more on this one. So I hope that this sums everything up, and thank you for considering my request in advance. ― C.Syde  ( talk  |  contribs ) 02:11, October 7, 2017 (UTC)