User blog comment:SpaceWeather/A Formal Assessment of a Pressing Issue/@comment-1874924-20131008064736/@comment-1874924-20131008180249

Reddy, I don't have time to go through your comments point by point, but here are a few thoughts:


 * 1) If you ban someone for spamming, then that's the reason you should give for the log. "Spamming" is a concise, unambiguous and valid reason for imposing a ban.
 * 2) What happens on Facebook, or any other place outside this wiki, is irrelevant here. Remember our rule against importing drama, and invoke that rule when the situation warrants--but also obey that rule yourself.
 * 3) As I trust you realize by now, "For fun" is never a valid or even rational basis for kicking someone. If the kickee reacts angrily, then they are not at fault--you are, because you provoked the incident. That could conceivably be reason enough--by itself--for Wikia Central to step in and demote you. That's how serious it is, and WC would be unlikely to accept "I have a sense of humor" as a defense. I've mentioned before that you have a reputation for treating your Chatmod power like a toy, and you've just explained why. While I'd like to believe and am prepared to believe that you aren't doing that anymore, I must also say that you've discovered just how fragile a good reputation is--far easier to trash than to build or repair. However the current drama shakes out, that black mark is something that you're probably going to have to live with for a while yet.
 * 4) Briefly promoting people just so they can screencap their profile page with the "Admin" flag on it seems benign enough, but that too could be seen as indicating a pattern of irresponsibility. Adminship is not a toy.