Thread:大淀/@comment-26091666-20181020021205/@comment-26171095-20181021215417

I heard about this juicy fiasco through the grapevine (read: Discord server with wikia acquaintances). Can't believe you guys are blaming Sai after piggybacking off his management for so long. I just had to get into this, both as retired staff and as a friend of Sai.

The creator of the channel in question should never have been an issue. The channel was created and then allowed to continue existing by the management. This implicit allowance already means that all of the staff currently on the team have responsibility for moderating that channel. If they had an issue, the channel should have been closed. Kind of like how it was just recently...after the problem had already blown up. The fact that this could even come up as an issue so much later shows that you never had an explicit rule regarding this. To add one at this point can only mean that you made it up on the spot specifically to shift the blame.

Speaking of your policies, it's obvious the moderation team is above any such trifling matter: there are no guidelines that can be inferred from your handling of the situation. It's being all made up on the fly. Of all evidence presented, none support you and none have been offered by you. That's a good way to make a case. I guess there's not really much evidence you can use to support yourself when none exists.

On that note about evidence, it's truly heartening to see such a textbook case of covering one's ass. You say that the server owner should not be blamed, but I say he should. Here are some points:
 * User:jasperchua99 is just a normal moderator. Why is he suddenly server owner of a partnered server in the wikia's name? The logic behind that is truly baffling. You won't even trust him to be an admin but you trust him to run a server representing you, perhaps even more strongly than the wikia itself.
 * He is the server owner. You can skip around it all you want and fake that he's just another person that happens to be the owner but he's making unilateral decisions as evidenced by the responses given in screenshots. If a person makes a decision, it's his responsibility.
 * The server owner is the rule maker. Say all you want about joint opinion, the truth of the matter is that he gets the last word on everything. The lack of structure, policies, unambiguity and responsibility are all clear indicators that he is severely lacking as a leader.
 * He specifically said he was going to delete evidence (https://i.imgur.com/CDF0MZ8.png). That's definitely responsible and what I look for in a leader.
 * He doesn't actually care about the community. The server lost a lot of moderators all at once to this and his responses all fall into the range of "apathetic". Tell me that's a good attitude for somebody in a position of responsibility to have.
 * He literally just wants Nitro. You made a few mentions of benefits that Discord offers partnered servers. I popped into your server and there was nobody in voice, which would be the only thing that could be considered outside of just "nice to have". You don't need that partner status and you're only holding on to it because $10 and a few free games is worth moral integrity. Just have the balls to actually come out and say it rather than dance around. Before you make any points against this, just remember that you have to apply to get that status so somebody did it for benefits and nothing you wrote necessitates it.

Let's get back to you then. You try to make a point about being the only one policing #fanart. Does this not speak management crisis to you? If it's actually true, then you just knowingly decided that you alone were enough for the job and didn't need to ask for help. Your server owner just casually threw out a mod recruiting drive recently. You could have easily done that before things got to this point. Perhaps you don't actually care and you just need to take this position right now to make yourself look good to the community...or something like that? Just as a note, you can try to cite staff availability changing as a reason but with how fast that mod recruitment drive came out, it could only be for like a week.

You attempted to place the blame on somebody by name because they weren't around. Then the second you find out that, not only were you wrong, but they were also still in staff, you turned around and advocated against a "name-and-blame game" despite being the one who ran with it first and foremost. With nobody left to single out and blame, you were left with no choice but to frame the community for the faults that you are supposed to fix. Your post in this thread even leaks that you feel the community is stupid as a whole. This is not how you should be addressing the problem.

In terms of addressing the problem, you actually didn't even offer a solution in any of your posts. The entirety of both major posts (this one and https://i.imgur.com/rs8Dpqd.png) are geared towards shifting blame off yourself and the server owner. If this were a sincere response, at the very least, the apology should have come first. The fact that it was not is a clear indication that it was simply an afterthought to make it so you appear to regret your actions.

To close, is this an attack? Hell yes, it is. The entire situation here is amazingly stupid. It speaks volumes to the quality of the moderation team, both as moderators and as human beings. If this post is gone later, then I guess you just had to prove me right.

tl;dr: Terrible management. Horribly disguised, long-running scapegoating. Pretending the server owner deserves his position. Attempting to shift blame from self to community. Not cool, guys.