User blog:Opheuchus/New Perspective on PigLover

Hello. This is PET, and I would like to share another perspective on all this. If you think that I should let this go; first of all, I have only seen it from this angle just now, and secondly, if you don’t like it, just ignore it and move on with your life.

With all that out the way, let me tell you that PigLover using his alt account gave him a lot of power on the wiki. A ton of users respected him, and once he felt he had his name secured on the wiki, it was time for him to grind for power on the wiki. But let me remind you that the users who didn’t immediately love him were users who had respectable amounts of experience on the wiki; users who knew how stuff worked around here.

When he wanted Content Moderator, all it took was tricking BiggerNate91 into giving him a temporary rank and that was it.

However, PigLover likely knew that an admin rank was a lot more lofty and a much bigger deal. Coupled with the fact that Bigger Nate already gave him Content Moderator, I think he knew full well that getting admin was going to require a different strategy. And so a different strategy was what he chose: he chose brute force.

He created a second admin application and got a lot of users riled up. He used the respect he gained from having ComicsCreatorz support him to get a lot of users to vote for him. However, since his admin application was naturally biased, he got a couple other users to support him - these users would leave his side once they saw what the opposition had to say on the arguments page - raising the poll to 75%.

Now, one quick note here, whenever a user changed to his side, PL would count that immediately into the poll. However, whenever a user LEFT PigLover, he would essentially ignore that and act as if no one left his side. This was apparent when he would not give up on saying that the poll was 75-25, despite users leaving his side.

Let me tell you exactly how harmful to the wiki it would have been if PL had gotten admin: The current admins had worked long and hard for their ranks, and if PL got admin just by being on the wiki for 2 months and doing stuff, he would have created a shortcut that OTHER users could exploit. If PL was able to lower the standards from 250 days to 80 days, then another new user could lower the standards again. The admins would not be able to justify stopping ANY of this, because in this hypothetical scenario, they already let it happen.

However, that was not the main reason I fought against PigLover. The real reason is because I felt like my experience was going to be worthless. I felt that if he got admin, all my past experience and work would be in vain. Why did I work so hard and so long if I could just get admin by having 1000 edits like PigLover did? He may have not realized this, but his application was an insult to all the admins’ hard work. I had to win that battle at all costs. I could NOT let my dignity shatter by letting a newcomer rise to ultimate power so fast.

So yeah. That’s another way to look at these wars. Remember, if you don’t like how I brought a past war up, please leave and ignore this.