User blog:Opheuchus/My Defense

Ok, a lot of users are taking this the wrong way, so I guess I HAVE to do this now. This is the timeline of what happened.
 * 1) The Bureaucrat poll was set up
 * 2) All the users of significance voted; excluding the users who weren't really on the wiki, the vote was 13-9, the exact same as the final result. There were also users who I got from the BNW for real.
 * 3) I put my alts in because I don't know what I was thinking.
 * 4) I realized that I done something horribly wrong and decided to invalidate all the votes, and even invalidated one of my real votes for further compensation. Overall, I vetoed over twice as many people as I did on Swasimcool, which was much more in proportion to the actual votes. I thought that was enough compensation.
 * 5) I called it a day and the fair voting still went on as usual.
 * 6) The final vote was 13-9, as it should be.
 * I don't see what's the problem with that. I made a mistake, and then realized it was wrong.


 * Therefore, I felt guilty about it, and AS FOR THAT EXACT REASON, I took measures to fix it, and even went as far as providing EXTRA compensation because I felt bad for Swasimcool. And I'm somehow an asshole for that. Really?


 * I don't get it. I didn't even need users complaining for me to realize my error, and I think that should be a good thing in itself.


 * If I hadn't made a mistake then corrected it, I would've won with more votes because I provided that extra compensation.


 * In the end, Swasimcool was the one who benefited from my mistakes. NOT ME.


 * I don't see why this has to resurface after all this time. I made up for my mistake after I made it. That's literally all that had to happen. No votes were rigged in the end, and the winner won with the most genuine users on their side.


 * If the alts' votes didn't count, the poll was fair. Period.