User blog:Nice Things/In Light of Recent Events

Hey there various members of our Fanon. Jordan here, before i begin I would like to just say that everything I am about to talk about, is my own opinion. If you want to complain about what I say, complain to me and only me, this is my doing and no one elses.

Now I like to entertain the notion that I am a liked and respected member of the RWBY community back from the days just after Yellow. And I like to think that I have a good judgement of this place and have the trust of people here. I have never been afraid of sharing my opinions so right now is no different.

Recently One of our Admins, Arren, Dragon however you know him, came back from his 4 month absence from the wiki, and quickly begun making changes, some of these changes I myself approved of, others however less so. In the space of one week he both promoted and demoted over 5 people to various roles, some of them highly important Chatmod and Rewvier possitions. Personally I do not believe one week is enough time to determine if these changes are for the better. Espeically demoting one of our popular and strong mods Chris, or TheSIlentKnight, (temporarily) due to him being innactive for a a week. I find this to be highly irregular as Arren himself was on a 4 month Hiatus/absence from the wiki, and other admin SelenaZephyr too. Were these Admins demoted or replaced Temporarily? No they were not. Do I believe temporary demotion for a few days of inactivity sets a bad precedent? Yes.

In the span of one week two people EnderParodox and VanityChaos, were promoted to the position of chatmod. In my own opinion this is highly irregular as the last promotion was months ago, and was only done after much deliberation. I personally do not think that these promotions should have taken place without first consulting with us the community on what we think, and I have been told by someone I trust implicitly that the needed Admin majority vote, and consultation of current mods, Did Not take place or was hurridly done. Personally i do not believe this Promotion should have taken place, and has happend too quickly for me to consider it a decision backed by the fanon. Nor do I agree with people chosen for the promotion, i like them both and respect them However I do not think that they should be mods. '''Once again feel free to say whatever you want but please direct the hate towards me and not other users, this is my own opinin and i will not have others slandered because of it. '''

The demotion of Chris is another charge which is both surpirsing and unerving. Chris recently wrote a blog saying he would be away  for a few weeks and would return. Today I logged on to see he had been demoted Temporarily due to his inactivity. I found this choice strange for many reasons. Not least among them that Arren himself was gone for 4 months and still retained his postions. Examples of this among mods include. BRTE being gone for a month due to computer issues, Runato being gone for almost as long. Were these people temporarily deomoted and shifted to another position? No they were not. So why i ask did this happen to Chris and why were we not informed of such a serious change happening? '''IF evidence comes to light which I have not seen or been told I will happily take back my statements and will apologize. '''

In closing, I do not believe that the actions taken by Arren in the past week, meer days after he returned from a 3-4 month absence from the fanon, were taken with the best interests and the proper thought and majority voting and community input, put in place by our Admins. This is by no means an attack on anyone, it is me questioning the establishment and asking for answers to my questions. I hope our admins notice this blog and inform me of everything going on and provide full explanations that lay all my concerns to bed. Until then however, I can only say that in my own opinion, the current climate of rapid promotions/demotions, is NOT in the best interests of the Fanon. I hope people take the time to read this blog and provide me with opinions on the issue, thank you all for reading.

~Jordan~