Thread:Mrs.NiallHoran13/@comment-25209704-20130618231001/@comment-5384369-20130620200004

I'm not going to degrade you for having an opinion. You're entitled to yours, and I'm entitled to mine. Warning and abusing power are 2 completely different things. Let me try to give you an example, say I read that response where you don't exactly see eye to eye and you don't agree with me. Let's say I take that as you being rude, offensive, and "defying" me. I can't just say "I can block you" or "I can take away your chat mod status" because that would be abusing power. And that, is exactly the same stunt that was pulled. You do have the right to warn a person, and you do have the right to ban them. But, in my opinion, you do not have the right to threaten to increase their ban when they're not even on chat. You seemed to have misinterpreted my definition of abusing your rank and power and threatening. Let's say I see a user who said something rude, if I block them for 5 years, that would be abusing admin rights. But by your definition of "abusing power", if it's not some random user, then I'm allowed to do that? No. That is completely off. I don’t care that you warned them, because that was needed, but threatening to increase their block, purely for the sake of not agreeing with a chat mod, is a little corrupt. I really cannot believe you brought up the Ari situation. One of the people involved in the argument was a chat mod at the time, 2 of them were promoted later to chat mods. These people were chat mods. They’re supposed to set a role for others. Users look up to chat mods, like they do admins. And the admins look at 3 chat mods, yelling, being rude, offensive, mean, unjust and disrespectful. That was not done admins just flaunting our powers. It’s not unfair when you see a person acting like that, chat mod or not. It is not, under any circumstances, okay for chat mods to act so rude. When we see those situation happen, what kind of image do you think that gives us, admins? When other users look at that, what do you think they think of us? Of the Wiki? I would see it as admins not being able to control the users and their chat mods. I would see the wiki as being nothing but a place where people get in huge fights. And I would definitely see it as chat mods abusing the power they have. I wasn’t there, so I don’t know what happened. But you, Nutter, have also seemed to misunderstand. I was never talking about warning Sophia on chat. I was talking about “increasing her ban” which was said right here on the wiki.