Literally no one is causing a flame war here, stop trying to blow this situation out of proportion as you're not helping the situation whatsoever by misconstruing some of the folk's intentions are in this thread.
Not intentionally maybe, but yelling at others and posting back and forth is prone to igniting one regardless of intentions.
Yeah, a LONG TIME ago when people were spiting RWBY because of a downgrade, literally when has this constant spite has occured these days? Because last time I checked RWBY hasn't been spammed to hell and back like Sans has been for the 18th time at this point, ESPECIALLY in the sense of spiting like throwing RWBY at every single smurf character with passive abilities out the ass.
Not just talking about RWBY, haven't seen RWBY threads spited nowadays but I have seen a few with Overwatch. But anyway, I stopped following Vs threads for a reason so I don't always know what goes on.
What Weekly has done a long time ago with his contributions to the wiki means jackshit nowadays, we're talking about the Weekly from right now, and as of right now he's only been causing massive unnecessary derailment over a freaking versus thread about a Bloodborne character losing to a tabletop RPG character, a thread mind you has been accepted to not be a stomp match whatsoever.
Yeah, very briefly and he apologized for it when he realized he quoted the wrong calculation. Should Weekly learn to be less sensitive about his preferred characters and/or verses losing? Absolutely, but at the same time, when people make Vs threads involving one of Weekly's liked verses, maybe either put them against foes with closer levels of AP & Durability. There is a pass if people didn't know, but those who do know might be a different story.
It's not harsh, it's helping him try to get out of this addiction as it's clearly shown he's not improved upon his behavior after his ban was over. I even asked other staff members to keep an eye on him the last time I reported him in case he ever goes back to old behavior as he kept claiming he's changed for the better, which I don't see especially with this stunt.
Again, this case was a brief moment. Also, on the Bayonetta thread to get her upgraded to 2-A, he has spoke with others who made efforts to use translations and it was argued back and forth initially when you also had your source of translations. But again, this was a conflicting translations and you initially closed that thread prematurely that even Abstractions reopened because she reviewed it and agreed it was a premature closed considering multiple users + an Admin/Super Mod agreed with the upgrade. Though of course Comicgyal requested it to be closed later and wanted to find better sources which eventually we had more face value statements once Bayonetta 3 came out. Also, you tried accusing him of "Lying through his teeth" when there is no proof of that. Innocent until proven guilty and not the other way around. Weekly gave his honest opinion on that thread and/or might have misunderstood things. I legit think you were the one being hostile in that regard.
Yeah, no one is telling him he's not allowed to talk to his friends about other stuff not related to versus debating, that's literally part of why him cutting ties off with versus debating is for the better, so he gets rid of his addiction.
I think Mr Kerf already said it best, but saying "It's for his own good" really is a shady way to put it.
Yeah no offense but Ryu seems to have not noticed that back when Monarch was downgrading Tier 1 LoL that Weekly was seriously considering abusing his mod status to revert all of the changes and was completely ok with a ban as he thought it was a hill worth dying on despite dozens of staff members agreeing with the downgrade.
I don't disagree that Ryukama wasn't active enough to notice, but also I recall Weekly being simply a Content Mod when that incident happened and he wasn't demoted for doing that. But he was demoted when some discussions he was in involved Overwatch downgrades and he was bickering with Dargoo Faust and Mr King of Negativity. Second, while I am not saying maybe a demotion was warranted, I did at the time think that the way it was handled was poorly handled. It was agreed they should have at least waited for Antvasima and Ryukama's commentary before applying at the very least. The incident actually caught them by surprise and the latter would have spoke out against it had he known. But the League of Legends stuff I do agree Weekly went over the line there.
But as for other notes, it was agreed that simply asking friends to share comments is not against the rules. It depends on the content itself and not the source of the content. So contacting Spinorr to share scans and/or commentary was not a violation at all period and saying as such is blowing it out of proportions. Furthermore, he only did so when it was initially applied, he stopped doing that later on as did the other guy who was originally angry at Weekly before later they are cool with each other now. So don't use something that was a rejected rule as a method to demonize him.
Anyway, I already agreed that a 3 month restriction from Vs threads + a final warning is fine. And Weekly should avoid going on controversial topics but is allowed to stick around to chat with friends and what not. Getting rid of him is also going to make it harder for him to get in contact with the friends he made here and/or making new friends. But anyway, let the higher up staff handle this including our Bureaucrats.
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