Creepah
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- Jul 12, 2014
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Hello all.
Recently I've been thinking about my demotion from moderator. It's not really something I talk about much and there's actually a surprising amount of people who don't know that I was demoted and thought I resigned. I'd like to clear a few things up, because it's something many people ask about and it'd be nice to get it out in the open before it haunts me in the future.
So why was I demoted? Back in January of this year, a (now former) friend of mine asked about a question in the moderator application format. He was unsure on how to write that particular question, and knew I had a successful application so thought to ask me about it. Generally, when people ask me for help with their app, I give them tips and tell them I can't say too much because of information-sharing policies moderators have. This time, however, because I had known him for a year and I could trust him, I sent him the portion of my application which answered the question, telling him not to put it into his application, however to read it and 'take notes' on how I did it then write his own. This was really because I was lazy and couldn't be bothered to give him tips.
You can guess what happened from here. Turns out he used my answer to that question and simply pasted it onto his application. The change in writing styles would have stuck out like a sore thumb. By the next staff meeting, I had been demoted from my position and banned from applying until the 10th of July for sharing information involving applications. He was banned from the forums for a short time and banned from applying permanently I believe, I soon lost contact as you may imagine.
But something I'd like to clear up is my stance on my demotion. For the first few months I thought a demotion was over the top and was very 'salty' for a long time. When I told people why I was demoted I made it sound as if it was out of my hands and not entirely my fault. But now I know that despite never meaning anything negatively against the network and staff rules, I understand that I was in the wrong completely and should have never shared that portion of my application. It's a mistake I made and didn't take seriously at the time, which I now regret.
I'd like to apologize to the senior staff team and to the community for my patchy sharing of my removal from the staff team, and I hope getting this all out there will help me move on. A lot of my recent effort to be more involved on the forums and in the community is to 'make up' for this and hopefully I've made better of my mistake.
Thank you all for reading.
Recently I've been thinking about my demotion from moderator. It's not really something I talk about much and there's actually a surprising amount of people who don't know that I was demoted and thought I resigned. I'd like to clear a few things up, because it's something many people ask about and it'd be nice to get it out in the open before it haunts me in the future.
So why was I demoted? Back in January of this year, a (now former) friend of mine asked about a question in the moderator application format. He was unsure on how to write that particular question, and knew I had a successful application so thought to ask me about it. Generally, when people ask me for help with their app, I give them tips and tell them I can't say too much because of information-sharing policies moderators have. This time, however, because I had known him for a year and I could trust him, I sent him the portion of my application which answered the question, telling him not to put it into his application, however to read it and 'take notes' on how I did it then write his own. This was really because I was lazy and couldn't be bothered to give him tips.
You can guess what happened from here. Turns out he used my answer to that question and simply pasted it onto his application. The change in writing styles would have stuck out like a sore thumb. By the next staff meeting, I had been demoted from my position and banned from applying until the 10th of July for sharing information involving applications. He was banned from the forums for a short time and banned from applying permanently I believe, I soon lost contact as you may imagine.
But something I'd like to clear up is my stance on my demotion. For the first few months I thought a demotion was over the top and was very 'salty' for a long time. When I told people why I was demoted I made it sound as if it was out of my hands and not entirely my fault. But now I know that despite never meaning anything negatively against the network and staff rules, I understand that I was in the wrong completely and should have never shared that portion of my application. It's a mistake I made and didn't take seriously at the time, which I now regret.
I'd like to apologize to the senior staff team and to the community for my patchy sharing of my removal from the staff team, and I hope getting this all out there will help me move on. A lot of my recent effort to be more involved on the forums and in the community is to 'make up' for this and hopefully I've made better of my mistake.
Thank you all for reading.
I feel bad for you ;-;
