The Departure of PET

The Departure of PET has an event that happened on the Big Nate COMMENTS Wiki on March 11, 2020 when the user Positive Elixir Trade ("PET") decided to leave the wiki after an investigation, "the PET investigation", conducted by users Bignatebaseball, Swasimcool and ZachOWott that confirmed the use of alternative accounts in a likely case of botching the bureaucratic election, arguably the most important election in the history of the BNCS. It is regarded as the turning point of the wiki with the rise of a new user with bureaucratic powers (the highest level of power possible), Swasimcool.

Origins
"The PET Investigation" was an investigation conducted by Bignatebaseball, Swasimcool and ZachOWott, with Swasimcool initially starting the investigation. It focused on how Positive Elixir Trade used alternative accounts to cheat and win the bureaucratic election - one of the most important elections in the history of the BNCS. The information page released to the public states that: "This all started one day when Swasimcool was looking at the bureaucrat poll and realized that RojoDojo had voted in the poll which is an obvious alt of PET. He told BNB and Zach about this and he looked at the other users that voted for PET. Swasimcool then emailed Fandom and they confirmed his suspicions. They all saw a commonality in the accounts."

The page also included a list of suspected (and confirmed) users: According to an email sent by FANDOM Staff, many other accounts were confirmed, raising the alternate accounts count to 9 users.
 * RojoDojo76
 * Mu TekiMu Teki's Profile Picture.png
 * Zapperazzi
 * SaladTossing42
 * TopWin321

PET's Response and Departure
Shortly after the investigation was released, PET released his formal defense, explaining a thorough timeline of what had happened, and the fact that the use of alternative accounts would not have changed his victory in the election.

One day after his formal defense was blogged, he released an informal blog post explaining how if he was to leave, his contributions would be removed.

On the same day, PET released his final blog post (as of time of writing), explaining that he was going to be leaving due to reasons unrelated from the investigation.

Public Response
PET's departure was met by controversial and mixed responses. The majority of users regarded his departure as a significant loss to the wiki, while other users (who supported Swasimcool) saw this as an opportunity to create a brighter future for the BNCS.