StrymUltra and others have been lying to you about Sean for a while now.
Uh... no
StrymUltra's first incident was on May 11th when he claimed Sean was derailing his thread. Assuming this wasn’t the work of one of those Sean clones everyone made in response to his heavy presence in the Pokemon vs Digimon Death Battle comment section to say that was really him, all he did was list everything wrong with the evidence. Yes, it did start a fight, but all he did to do so was list everything he believed to be wrong with the upgrade. Furthermore,
Sean himself has stated that derailing was not his intention, rather to mainly list what he believed to be wrong, with the mention of derailing being a quip about how he affects people whether he wants it or not (admittedly he did take enjoyment from it but people can be amused by something they didn’t intend to happen). This is reflected in the actual screenshots; “
...I’m not trolling or anything, things just derail.”
Why would the act of some Sean sock
not being involved in this case be an assumption? It really sounds like you're trying unecessarily to make the readers feel guilty over Sean's situation with a outlandish claim out of nowhere with nothing to back that up beyond mere speculation at best.
While
Strym may have laughed at some of his arguments (Which isn't polite and all), Sean did still show blatant antibias to the proposed changes on the thread with poor explanations at best
that were explicitly uncalled for,
multiple times in fact, and should have been kept for another thread, yet he continued derailing, so even while playing devil's advocate this doesn't hold up.
His intentions may have been better than this, but it still shows a deficiency on expressing social thoughts in an appropiate manner, which if anything implies further that Sean is not suited for this community.
Furthermore, it is rather ironic that StrymUltra claimed Sean to be biased against him when he himself sent Sean
these messages, including a claim that he removed some of Sean’s calcs from the verse page with zero reasoning behind it or any counter in the comments of the blog posts.
This is the revision where such removal occurred.
Thing is, as it has shown time and time again, Sean keeps trying to "help" by disrupting the community that dedicates their effort and will over managing these pages, namely with poorly done pages, calculations, and even a physiology page, and it doesn't help that he didn't show development on himself as we've tried to help him improve (also including the pages he tries to do/improve).
In fact, these scans shown are straight up debunking themselves, Strym gave a clear explanation, and he could easily just contact the calc group members that originally accepted at first his calculation if he was in doubt of this, and the act of threatening Strym on removing what he has done with CRTs clearly comes in a joking manner with the "hehe" at the end of the second one, which was clearly a continuation of the first one anyways.
Further down, ProfessorKukui4Life states that Sean openly insulted SamanPatou.
While that is true, what he didn’t mention was that Sean was under the assumption that Saman had deleted his Pokemon Physiology page because only he personally disagreed with it, and he apologized when he found out there was in fact reasoning behind it. Again, this was after
2 whole discussions on only Pokemon Physiology stuff over the course of more than a year (December 4th 2020 to April 8th 2021), so no wonder he was mad when he thought it was deleted for nothing.
His reason for being mad may have been justified in this instance, but it still wasn't the best way to express his issues on this, this is a quite minor case either way, and doesn't really support his case either, and it doesn't help that his Pokémon Physiology page was constantly rushed with questionable at best powers and abilities with next to no approval from others to begin with.
Even if Sean just said it aggravated, it literally should not matter as VSBW rules state that offsite behavior is irrelevant unless they destabilize the site by creating drama (which he didn’t do, the screenshot did more damage than anything Sean said), threaten someone (which he didn’t do), harass someone (which he didn’t do, Saman is not even in the Pokemon Scan Server), engage in criminal activity (which he REALLY didn’t do), or impersonated someone (again, didn’t do).
He did threaten SamanPatou by calling him a little (expletive), plus this is still mean as you've said (which doesn't help), and this account is already suspect of impersonating a sockpuppet, needless to say, there's better ways to appeal a ban than doing a sock to speak for yourself, you DM a staff member in Community Central for this stuff, but let's remain on good faith over the OP of this post not being a sock of Sean for the sake of the argument.
Strym’s second incident was on November 18th, which features StrymUltra’s attempt to get Sean banned for life.
First off, this is a direct result of the age-old concept of trying to get a rise out of someone, screenshotting the results, and cropping out the context to make them look bad. Not sure why Strym is just now reporting him for something that happened 5 months prior, but in this scenario put yourself in Sean’s shoes. He had just basically been stabbed in the back by some of the only people he considered to be fellow debaters, who then teased him all day for what Strym did. No wonder he was mad. I’m sure a lot of debaters with full rights here would say something like that if they were banned overnight by the people he thought were his friends. Also the little “K*ll yourself” comment seemed to be more dismissive of what Ryandbeast was saying (the guy who initially stabbed him in the back by sending the screenshots to StrymUltra) than an example of Sean’s personality.
In the best case scenario one would provide proof over such scans being manipulated and whatever to claim that Strym is doing stuff against Sean for the sake of it, show your so-claimed context if you're so sure on the scans provided in that thread being better in context, until then this just supports that Sean should remain distanced from the wiki's activities.
Next up, the claim that Sean said StrymUltra manipulates information. Not only is that not true based on the screenshot, he said he wanks Pokemon, but is that even false? It’s no secret that Sean was heavily against 2-A Pokemon (
and was even working on a debunk at the time Strym made sure he was permabanned). Even if you could say this is an Appeal to Motive, Appeal to Motives aren’t rule breaks on this wiki.
You're saying that Sean's claim over Strym manipulatin information
being false directly supports Strym and goes against your ideals, and per the current standings, yes, his perspective over Pokémon's statistics are false for our purposes, not that it changes anything here regardless. A large debunk blog is a large task and all, but at the same time being banned doesn't stop him from working on it then contacting others to evaluate it and check if the ideas are remotely valid to improve the site.
Next, the claim that Sean said Executor_N0 shouldn’t be allowed in the Pokemon Scan Server for being a Digimon fan. That, too, is not at all supported by the screenshots. Forgive me, but I don’t exactly see why the act of asking why a Digimon debater who is primarily known for debating Digimon is in the Pokemon Scan Server is such a terrible offense. And yes Sean hates Digimon, does that mean we should like him less as a person?
After that, StyrmUltra’s next claim is that Sean was going to get rid of 2-A Pokemon and report Strym with screenshots. And this, I wholeheartedly agree with. Sean was, as I mentioned above, working on a 2-A debunk CRT. Furthermore, I was never in the Pokemon Scan Server so Sean did in fact send me the screenshots where Strym admitted to deleting his calcs for no reason (though I don’t know if there’s more). But here’s the thing. Planning to post content revision threads and reporting users are both things that average people do daily on VS Battles Wiki and neither are remotely bad things.
It is a terrible offense because it's blatant unecessary bias against a fanbase, this is as childish as those that go on console wars just because they find themselves as better than everyone else, which is also meaningly egocentrical, and overall doesn't speak well of Sean's psychology to consider he has improved to help on this community.
Read the answer above this one for the second part over the downgrade plans, this is quite redundant and the above covers it about the same.
Hoo boy… the last one. I find it laughable that
ProfessorKukui4Life says that Sean trying to get StrymUltra banned with out of context screenshots isn’t acceptable, only for him to turn around and support StrymUltra doing that exact same thing to Sean.
Twice. Furthermore, this may be rather controversial but if
the purpose of a server is to promote a blatant falsehood, then it shouldn’t exist. If Sean actually did have sufficient reasoning to remove Pokemon’s 2-A rating without any sort of deception (I’ve been around Sean on Discord a lot, he doesn’t lie about evidence) then we should let him.
And here’s the kicker. Sean never claimed that his Strym report would be false. I don’t know who first brought up Sean being intent on murder or suicide either because it has nothing to do with the reports or their screenshots.
And lastly, StrymUltra’s claim that Sean’s Pokemon Physiology profile was debunked… or something. There were a couple heated discussions here and there on his discussion threads, but that’s about it. It was only removed from the site because Saman wanted people to discuss it more (although any more changes could have been done via CRT, but I digress).
Again, showcase the "context" that would imply that these claims are better in context and they aren't making claims up, which also supports that he's not to be trusted.
If anything you're twisting scans with claims reliant on someone not reading to suit your purposes, the purpose of the server isn't to spread falsehood, it's to develop the community dedicated to indexing of the Pokémon series, and that topic wasn't even brought up in that screenshot regardless, and instead explains why Sean's a burden to everyone.
Uh... yes, he did clearly
ask someone to kill themselves directly,
it was even the first thing linked on the Rule Violation Report list section you linked over Sean
A good portion of the powers included were questionable (for example, using powers only avaliable while a Pokémon is tamed by a trainer? Physiology pages list inherent abilities of a group/species, not acting as a composite version hub), and he didn't bother doing a proper CRT over the topic in an appropiate manner, even I was in support of such page existing, but he kept trying to do that in an inappropiate manner out of a lack of coordination with others, and as a wiki this is crucial for performing activities in a proper way, which showcases Sean's inability to contribute to the site, sadly.
I’m not saying Sean is an amazing person. He frequently butts heads with other debaters, especially Pokemon debaters, and a lot of them even call what he does with Pokemon and it’s debating scene unhealthy for him or even “scary”... for some reason. Others claim he’s never changed in the past year, but that’s not true, because he’s met me, and I feel blessed to be his friend. He is not someone who deserves to be banned.
An user can act very differently IRL compared to the internet, and while he may have hidden potential, he's yet to show any significant improvement on this regard to help this site, so I'm sorry, but I think it's for the best that he doesn't come back here. If anything suggest him to go to other communities like Character Stats and Profiles where he can make pages of whatever he desires with no limitations of others.