Thread:MYHERO/@comment-33624257-20190525212738/@comment-35433743-20190531011026

It’s because of Ant. You know the dude that has the most contributions there. Quite ironic it’s him that’s keeping me away, when other people that usually rants about the wiki says that he’s cool at least. When I first met him, I didn’t really notice much from him other than the fact that he’s one of the oldest members here, and everybody loves and respects him. And I did the same as well at first. But I began to notice this underlying dark belly with him. I’ve seen him making choices that I was surprised at. I don’t know when, but he has shown to take a lot of things very sensitively. And it’s with this sensitivity that he’s been, well at least in my eyes, I remember one time where he got annoyed at this one guy’s comment, and put it up on the Rule Violation report thread and asked what should be done. He said that it wasn’t right for him to choose as he would be too biased to make a decision. We evaluated the person and saw that he was new, and made only one comment like that. A lot of us agreed on just letting it slide, if he continues this behavior then we give him a warning. But then, Antvasima just wanted to take over how we dealt with him. He wanted to give him a ban, on his first offense, even though we don’t operate like that. Well that did not sit well with us, so we had to take down that idea and so Ant decided that a strict warning would be necessary than. Again, this is his first offense and from what I recall we don’t give that out when it’s the first. Of course so we disagreed with him but I decided to step out of both sides and make a compromise that would benefit both sides. And that’s when he lashed out as us. He said that what Andy (staff member who was trying to reason with him) was doing, was destroying the wiki. And he told me that I have no power over this as I’m not a staff and said that I was getting in the way of how things worked here. He noticed that I was asking for leniency couple of times in the past in these threads and said that I too was contributing to the destruction of this wiki and told me to just leave and not comment there. Which is again pretty odd, since Ant himself said he is not fit to make that call earlier. And after that, he just did things his own way and gave him a warning even though it wasn’t even agreed on. Or well people did agree, you know regular users, and I guess that gave Ant justification to do that, when prior to that he said that I should mind my own business because I’m not a staff. This whole thing is in the past now, but I bring it up because it’s one of the strongest memory I have recalling how Ant abused his powers. He did it again once more and I won’t get into the details of that considering how long my comment already is, and that’s when I called it quits.

This is the main reason why I left, Ant has become oddly arrogant and I know it sounds weird since he has one hell of a clean mouth, but his actions and honesty just the way how he constantly brags that he has saved that wiki from the depths of despair whenever someone tries to call him out for something. If I continued to be on this wiki, I sure as hell would’ve pointed out how hypocritical his actions are in the future, and it would’ve came with ramifications. And I honestly at that point I was tired of arguing and I decided it wasn’t worth the trouble so I left like that.

And that’s why I didn’t want to come back. I felt like I’m going to get in trouble in the future. And not only that I was not going to tolerate this authoritarian kind of action where people just get ban for the smallest reasons.

Ant has stated that he has been acting like this because there has been a recent rise in attacking staff members, and that if this continues on it’s gonna destroy the wiki. And I can understand what he and the others went through. But if that’s seriously the way you’re going to answer, then I ain’t being apart of this boat.

Yeah so that’s my whole spiel...however my thoughts of boycotting this has been weakening. Because one, I don’t know how Ant is behaving currently. And two, if I spot something suspicious again, I can just contact the Human Resource group. Something I should’ve done in the beginning instead of confronting Ant about it. So yeah I seem to have a pretty good plan if something like this were to happen again, but at this point I’m still on the fence about it.