User blog:Henry Hudson GC/My Complete Thoughts on Zach's Resignation

It's been 10 days since Zach's abrupt leave, so I decided now would be a good time to share my complete thoughts on the situation.

My Realizations
Zach left the wiki because it was no longer a friendly place for him. He left amidst a huge wiki conflict that heavily divided the wiki for several days. It's the bureaucrat's job to maintain order on the wiki, but Zach failed to do that. In fact, I don't think he ever cared about the wiki at all. Lssj revealed a few days ago that Spyroclub had made 5 mod actions in the past 30 days, which is an embarrassingly low number for a staff of such high ranking. Obviously, Zach realized this, along with Spyro's inactivity and unwillingness to edit. Nonetheless, he did nothing. Even after we collected the community's opinion and discovered that 90% of the wiki was for Spyro's demotion, Zach refused to do anything. Any good leader would have taken the community's side and demoted him instantly.

Oh, and apparently he did! He was demoted from admin to content mod; he did listen, right?

Nope.

Spyroclub was a temporary admin at the time of the conflict. He was filling in for Ak-Elfs after he announced his temporary absence. Now, what's significant about this? I believe that Zach only announced this demotion to get the community to shut up. It wasn't even a demotion at all; Zach thought he could fool us by pretending to demote Spyro. What I get from this is that instead of taking proper action, Zach tries to fool the wiki with a fake demotion. Zach didn't care about the wiki at all.

All we ever wanted to do was improve the wiki. Me, Pig Lover, P-dog, and countless others wanted staff reform to improve the wiki. At the time, Spyroclub was my friend as well. I wanted him demoted because I knew it was what was best for the wiki.

I think that in the end, Zach also wanted what was best for the wiki. However, he also wanted to maintain a strong relationship with his friends, which I understand. I think that's the true reason he left. He wanted staff reform, but he also wanted to stay close friends with Spyroclub. The only way to satisfy both sides was to leave the wiki with Spyroclub.

Yeah, the end.