Thread:Mainframebabe/@comment-33762881-20170601211314/@comment-29954643-20170707041443

This was certainly a long time ago, but I guess that I'm here today to set the record straight.

What I said to you in my reply, was only partly the truth. I was advised by those who I deeply respect and I did make my final decision based mostly on my conversations with those members, but it was NOT true that your decision to seemingly pick on my and my technical freinds' content edits didn't help me make my final decision. It certainly did make a difference, and I am somewhat sorry now for being disingenuous. At the time, I had 197 days of consecutive edits and I was not about to lose that time if I chose to tell the truth and risk further intimidation and/or retaliation in the form of blocking, and I do believe that the implied threat was ever present, so I exited the nominations process and threw my support toward someone new that I didn't really know. Only after I left the nominations process were either you or MD a part of the process, so I was stunned to learn that the whole process was to be changed suddently.

Today, the admin staff continues act as if they are above the rest of the members when editing. It is simply not supposed to be the case. I have clearly cited the ToU's in regard to your practice of removing other member's edits based on your own will and/or other admin's wills. If you have a problem with an equal member's edits, then you discuss it with them, you do not stick your admin hat on your head and threaten them with your admin authoirty overreach. It was not given to you by the community as a 'club'. That designation should have been given if and only if you were trusted not to use that authority as you have been doing IMO. You may not like another person's opinion or contribution, but it simply is not your call in all cases and this is not a threat, it is my read on your admin duties and authority.

Along with my closer friends (who have mostly chosen to leave this wiki), I have been advised by my physicians that this wiki is not helping my medical condtiion. I've not mentioned it ever before on this wiki because I have chosen not to use this as an excuse. I have tried to bring much of the bulk of the content up to date while defending myself from personal attacks and humiliating slander. I will continue to be a member of this wiki forever, but my participation will continue only as I see fit. Also, not a threat, just my rigtht to have my own opinion about the way ALL members are treated. If I do not like a member personally, I do not post negative slurs and images on their walls or on my own profile. I do not make threats. I do not ask others not to be friends with other wiki members under threat either. I leave that type of behavior to each of the individual members of this community and their own consciences. - El