User blog:Henry Hudson GC/PET Cheated

Here I am, knowing that PET cheated on the bureaucrat vote for his own good.

PET's response: https://big-nate-comments.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Positive_Elixir_Trade/Handling_this_situation

I guess this is sort of a response to the above blog post and some of my own opinions. PET's quotes are in bold.

Response
"I used alts to bot the poll because I wasn't thinking rationally, and because I wasn't thinking about the detrimental effects that it would have on the wiki."

Yes, how unfortunate. However, you could use that excuse in really any situation, from a botted poll to a mass murder.

"Keep in mind that everyone who was legitimately on the wiki had voted before my alts, so they really didn't change anything. The final ballot was 13-9, and that was what it was before I used my alts. So please keep in mind that they didn't change anything."

After some investigation, I have found that this is true. This doesn't make it acceptable, however. If one athlete wins a race by cheating, then he will be disqualified. It doesn't matter if he is clearly faster than the racer who didn't cheat. In addition, genuine users could've seen that PET was winning because of this bots, and could have thought "Well everyone else is voting for PET so I'll do that too."

"However, I'm telling you that I admit to my "almost mistake" and I would like to keep this problem civil so we can come up with a solution very quickly and easily."

"Almost mistake"? I think this was a big mistake. This questions your integrity, which is important anywhere on the planet.

Final Thoughts
I'm kind of disappointed to be honest. I hate how big of a hypocrite this makes PET, considering how many times he's criticized Pig Lover for doing the same. Even though PET has been doing good as a leader, this is hard to forgive. Maybe Swayam could've been a better one, who knows.

How to settle this?
There are many possibilities for this. As of now, I'll post an informal poll below.

How should we deal with this? Forgive and forget Demote PET Promote Swasimcool to bureaucrat

I feel like these 3 are the most rational options, if you disagree say so in the comments.

Henry_Hudson (talk) 01:40, March 11, 2020 (UTC)