User blog comment:SilverPlays97/On the Recent Controversy of Admins/@comment-4533965-20150103180349

Honestly, the entirety of these events have just been a jumbled mess: users getting banned from chat, a chat policy revolution, the new chat rules, the emotes, ALL of it has been this giant catastrophe that is just too much for anyone to wrap around.

Let's be honest: SonicTheHedgehogDude is a great user, no doubt about that at all. However, he's made some decisions that I, personally, am not in favor for, and many users are along the same lines as I. And thus, there's going to be complaints, there's going to be "riots", and there's going to be arguing. We, as human beings, are magnetize to arguing with others about our personal thoughts. Take a look at YouTube comments; it's everywhere.

However, as SilverPlays97 puts it, we shouldn't "treat Dude as a scapegoat". He's suffered from too much opposition and complaining, and certainly being called a "dictator" would make me upset, so I'm sure it made Dude upset. If there's one thing I've learned from all of this mess, it's that users will do anything to bring back something as little as the privilege of the emoticons. That's sad, guys. I'm not saying I'm not one of those people (hell, I'm more guilty than any of you, honestly), but we should act civil next time we get blocked or banned or when our favorite emote vanishes on the wiki, not complain about it and make someone who's trying to help the wiki feel like they're hindering the wiki. That's all I have to say on that comment. Sorry, Dude.