User blog comment:Nat25/Mini Vacation/@comment-27354273-20161004043004

The thing is, Nat, no one 'forcefully' shot you down. The purpose of votings is for users to express their personal opinion and whether or not they think promoting a certain user would be advantageous to the wiki or not. Voting for rights promotion can never be truly objective, it will always be biased. And my personal bias heavily leaned towards voting against you. Why? Well you continuously say that you are ready and you know what you're doing. If that's true, then how on earth did this mess happen? And no, Nat, it's not a little mess-up. You went around, stripping users off their counselor spots because of your perception that they were inactive. And while it's true that they are not corporeally active here in the wiki, I already explained to you a hundred times that there are rules to inactivity, and depending on their status, the time when their characters are actually supposed to be archived. Despite this, you didn't seem to care about the User/Char Forum (which is the most accurate source of user activity, that's why we update this every two weeks) and just looked at the user's contribs, and based on that, decided that you can remove their counselor spots because they are 'inactive'. Worst of all, you didn't consult me or any of the admin team members, which is the most upsetting thing to me because if you did tell me about your plans, we could've stopped this before it even happened. And you might say that it's not that big of an issue to even argue about, but the thing is, if you continue doing these things, messing up, not asking for permission and deciding you can just do things, does it make you a good candidate for rollback? Not at the moment, no.

That's the reason why I said that recent events should be taken into account, and I did believe that you were ready, I really did, it was just a shame that you had to do this, because it changed my perception of you being ready because doing something like this proves that you're not. This is why I changed my vote. I never said anything about this being the final time you can try out. You always can try out and continue to become a better person. I tried out twice before getting RB the first time. Who says you need to stop? That's all on you. It's your choice if you want to run again or not. No one here told you to stop running, so don't blame it on us or at least avoid generalizing.

P.S. I also want to point out that you did say you're aware you messed up, and I also want you to be aware that if you mess up, it's not gonna go unnoticed, and you can't just complain to us about not giving you a chance by not touching the vote. I can't just turn a blind eye here, so I think it will be wrong for any of us to vote for when we all know that you made a mistake, which you admitted to doing. Also, if you mess up, then of course we'll think you're not ready. We didn't say anything about you not being able to do anything right anymore though, so I have no idea where you got that bit.

P.S.S. I just want to point out that while I am aware you said you're only going to be gone for a month, if things don't go according to plans, and if you happen to stay inactive for more than a month, rules will still apply to you whether you like it or not and your characters will be archived.

P.S.S.S. In relation to that, do you want to be marked as Semi-Active or Officially Inactive?