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We were all equal at the Zelda Dungeon Wiki. No bureaucrats. Staff were admins and patrollers. No obsession with rank and status. No one thinking they were better, and more deserving than other people. No stupid hierarchy where certain staff were elevated above the rest. It was a collaboration. We were all partners. It was a true harmony. I was treated with respect, dignity. People were eager to learn from me. I never was insulted. Drama was non-existent on the wiki. I felt comfort for the first time in ages. A sense of peace and belonging. | We were all equal at the Zelda Dungeon Wiki. No bureaucrats. Staff were admins and patrollers. No obsession with rank and status. No one thinking they were better, and more deserving than other people. No stupid hierarchy where certain staff were elevated above the rest. It was a collaboration. We were all partners. It was a true harmony. I was treated with respect, dignity. People were eager to learn from me. I never was insulted. Drama was non-existent on the wiki. I felt comfort for the first time in ages. A sense of peace and belonging. | ||
We launched October 31st, 2011. Naturally, Crat B was displeased with me. Despite being inactive for a while, and it being clear it was over, Crat B claimed to speak on behalf of all the Zelda Wiki staff. He demanded I resign from my place at Zelda Dungeon Wiki as a founding admin. | We launched October 31st, 2011. Naturally, Crat B was displeased with me. Despite me being totally inactive for quite a while, and it being clear it was over, Crat B was furious at my "treason" (they loved that word) and claimed to speak on behalf of all the Zelda Wiki staff. He demanded I resign from my place at Zelda Dungeon Wiki as a founding admin. | ||
He insisted I return as a Zelda Wiki patroller. And only as a patroller. He said I was unsuitable to ever be an admin again. And I would never be trusted with it. In the exact same speech he was trying to convince me to leave Zelda Dungeon in. Yeah, he never was regarded as particularly compelling person. Always the worst choice to speak on behalf of the staff. Not that he realized that. He thought he was the most important person on Earth and that others are foolish to doubt his glory. I called him on his hypocrisy and his lies. Not telling him how I knew he was lying, just repeatedly countering every lie he told with a retort about how disingenuous he was and that I knew it was a lie. And never gave him, or anyone else an answer and I ignored his ultimatum. I just kept working on the Zelda Dungeon Wiki and never said I was formally leaving at Zelda Wiki to anyone. Within a couple years he and the rest of the Masterminds were removed from the wiki by Jess. I heard some stayed on to help normally as regular staff rather than having special status anymore, though I may have misremembered that. Anyway, thanks Jess. I firmly believe that was the right decision. It solved most of Zelda Wiki's problems. I just wish you did that two years earlier and prevented all of this. But it was too late as it was, damage done and it couldn't be undone. | He insisted I return as a Zelda Wiki patroller. And only as a patroller. He said I was unsuitable to ever be an admin again. And I would never be trusted with it. In the exact same speech he was trying to convince me to leave Zelda Dungeon in. Yeah, he never was regarded as particularly compelling person. Always the worst choice to speak on behalf of the staff. Not that he realized that. He thought he was the most important person on Earth and that others are foolish to doubt his glory. I called him on his hypocrisy and his lies. Not telling him how I knew he was lying, just repeatedly countering every lie he told with a retort about how disingenuous he was and that I knew it was a lie. And never gave him, or anyone else an answer and I ignored his ultimatum. I just kept working on the Zelda Dungeon Wiki and never said I was formally leaving at Zelda Wiki to anyone. Within a couple years he and the rest of the Masterminds were removed from the wiki by Jess. I heard some stayed on to help normally as regular staff rather than having special status anymore, though I may have misremembered that. Anyway, thanks Jess. I firmly believe that was the right decision. It solved most of Zelda Wiki's problems. I just wish you did that two years earlier when I warned you about all this in the first place and prevented all of this. But it was too late as it was, damage done and it couldn't be undone. | ||
Also, not long after this, the Zelda Wiki staff wised up and realized Admin C was, actually, pretty horrible, and she was finally gone too, left in a mindless rage over something petty about staffing choices that in this case, were not really a big problem and she was wildly overreacting. She only lasted that long because that newer bureaucrat had protected her for so long, in an unrequited crush she took advantage of. The worst people were all gone. Zelda Wiki was free to recover from its dark days. They offered to take me back now that everyone who despised me was gone and no one was left who would fight them on my return. With apologies for not believing me about these people too. I had considered it. But I was never coming back. I was violated here, severely traumatized, and no one cared that it was happening, and so many willingly believed obvious lies they personally witnessed and could have seen were untrue and too many refused to do anything to stop it or even admit it was happened. I had to move onto a better place, where I was actually respected. So I refused to return. | Also, not long after this, the Zelda Wiki staff wised up and realized Admin C was, actually, pretty horrible, and she was finally gone too, left in a mindless rage over something petty about staffing choices that in this case, were not really a big problem and she was wildly overreacting. She only lasted that long because that newer bureaucrat had protected her for so long, in an unrequited crush she took advantage of. The worst people were all gone. Zelda Wiki was free to recover from its dark days. They offered to take me back now that everyone who despised me was gone and no one was left who would fight them on my return. With apologies for not believing me about these people too. I had considered it. But I was never coming back. I was violated here, severely traumatized, and no one cared that it was happening, and so many willingly believed obvious lies they personally witnessed and could have seen were untrue and too many refused to do anything to stop it or even admit it was happened. I had to move onto a better place, where I was actually respected. So I refused to return. | ||
