Board Thread:User Rights Requests/@comment-477304-20170417190140/@comment-4220590-20170418162156

Mystic Monkey wrote: I think this is getting a bit out of hand and a conclusion should be met before we're at each others throat. Or else the thread should be closed and Journalistic can go about closing harmless threads with snide reasons as if no problem.

We all agree Journalistic is a hardworking admin, it's just he's not very sociable on the forums which may make him come off as rude. For example his thread-closing messages such as insulting those with oppinions in shipping or being disgusted by individuals, as an admin he represents SNN to others and others are seeing him poorly because of it, as admins we do specialise in parts of SNN but we still have social rules to uphold which he disregards

It appears we all have various understandings of Journalistic. Some of us are indeed out of the loops than others (I myself feel the most detatched but I am trying to help) while others symphasize with Journal for his behavior. But regardless of reasons we must accept that those in the community are upset with him and we need solutions to the one problem, not pick for more problems out of it.

We've all come to a rough understanding that demoting him would be too much of an for an admin who sees the bigger picture over the little people, but most of us still feel bothered by his behaviour. I believe the best solution would be to encourage him to talk to us so we can understand him better. But I don't think he would trust us to open up if some of us admins, the leaders of the community, cannot trust each other. I agree with Mystic's summary of this whole situation. And with this, I believe it is best, both for ourselves and others, that we lay to rest our accusations of others and defenses of ourselves on this thread. You have seen that this has only torn us apart, and it has stood against much of what SNN stands for. It is a toxic to our community. I know each and every one of you: you are all good people. It is terrible to see you, the people I work with and admire in your own way, act out that way.

Discussions like these instead of being open to Journalistic and talk to him directly (however hard they may be) are one of the reasons why he has shut himself off. In my experience, if we come clean and are respectful, then we can reach our admins. If we care for SNN, our fellow users and everything we stand for, we must drop the hostilities and backtalk here and try to help others, and not lash back at them.