Board Thread:Off-Topic Discussion/@comment-6433273-20160713122023/@comment-32500188-20161011141825

If I may, as someone looking from the outside in at this whole thing at the moment...

As a former BBS forum admin and moderator myself, yes, admins ARE expected to show patience and restraint. But, let's be real, admittedly there are times where we have gotten to our limits in dealing with folks who have one too many instances of not following through with either rules or suggestions given out at some point. It's natural that folks lose patience over things, we're all human, and it's frustrating to keep giving out multiple second chances in cases like that. So if this is clearly a situation where there has been multiple times that requests have been made to someone, and that person starts out following through but eventually sets them aside for whatever reasons there may be, I can see why at this point the kid gloves have come off with that respect.

To be fair, you have been working hard at making attempts to improve, but I also have been noticing times over the different name changes where you have done stuff like that several times before, especially clearing those suggestions or requests from your talk pages at times (which honestly has been frowned upon in the past, so they HAVE been pretty lenient with you on that, since people have been outright blocked for continuing to ignore and even erasing admin requests/warnings before)... it's a little unfair to expect for those with admin privileges to keep letting issues like that slide if it is something that's affecting the workflow to the extent that has been said. They wouldn't be telling you to stop doing something if they didn't have valid reasons behind doing so...

I'm not trying to overstep any bounds or anything, but that's just the way I see it. We're not always going to agree with what the right course of action is, but one thing for sure, whatever happens from this point, I'm hoping this situation works out & clears itself up.

(Also to note, I don't think that last one is in the context you think it is... something else was going on with that particular user at that point which was non-related to wiki matters, if I remember that conversation correctly...)