User blog comment:Edward Nigma/The Real Truth about Nashtron/@comment-5381241-20140714154424

Okay, this is the last thing I'm going to say regarding this incident. Samed and A5 put it perfectly, but it is becoming hard to debate this because you guys just will not listen, or it's ignorance, I don't know. Whatever it is, it is keeping you from fully understanding our point of views.

Samed said it very well below. In fact, I was going to come here yesterday and say almost the same thing, but I got sidetracked.

A month or so ago, only some of the time when I would enter chat and say hi, I would be greeted by suggestive or rather demeaning comments from other users. I gave a few warnings here and there, and it would settle down. However, as time progressed, so did these comments. They would get more frequent. They would get a little worse. They began to be accepted as a normal thing. And nowadays, I'm greeted by these same remarks most of the time. I'm a chat mod, though, right? I can stop this kind of stuff, right? Not exactly. Everytime I would voice my opinion about this stuff and label it as "inappropriate," "unproductive," "potentially offensive," etc., I would then received comments such as, "Oh please. It's nothing," "deal with it," "there's nothing wrong with it," etc., and the majority of the chat would pretty much oppose my reasoning. That being said, a ban would only make matters worse. You just can't give a ban anymore without being beaten with opposing comments, I guess, especially if you're a goody two-shoes like me or a few other mods.

The thing that made the Nashtron incident so bad was that it (negatively) influenced the wiki during its lifetime. (Even more-so when people found out that members from their very own wiki [assuming they didn't already know, even though it was pretty obvious that somebody from this wiki made Nashtron] were using an account on another site to make posts with hidden innuendo, suggestive themes, etc). The Nashtron incident basically made it seem O-K to make these kinds of comments here. It fueled the suggestive nature of the wiki.

I'm going to directly quote Samed here because he took the words right from my mouth, "That's just the way I was raised, and the way I plan on living the rest of my life." With that being said, I really see no need to come here anymore. When I first joined, we were all able to engage in friendly discussion about LEGO, music, movies, anything really. It was nice. It suited my lifestyle. But as time moved on, the wiki just started falling down a slope. A very slippery slope that proved troublesome to attempt to climb back up. And we went down, and down, and down, until now, where all we do is either sit in chat quietly or make comments that are offensive, suggestive, etc. The direct opposite of what this wiki once was. Now don't get me wrong, I still have a few really good friends that I enjoy hanging out with that have been keeping me here, but either they never join chat, or they sit quietly (AFK) when they do join. I don't have time anymore to sit in chat for hours like I did before, so attempting to get them out of AFK before I have to leave is nearly impossible. There's nothing here for me anymore. I don't edit, because every edit is usually taken care of by Spy or Alemas. My best friends are gone or have absolutely lost their minds (take Randomized, for example). Those past discussions with friends about LEGO, movies, music, etc. are gone.

I'm not going to leave without apologizing, though. The last few nights and days have (and I'm serious) been restless or very stressfull. I felt like I hurt people with what I said about the Nashtron incident. I felt quite terrible and wanted to just be done with this, so here I am. I want to apologize for my actions. They were indeed rude, like Le Beater said. They weren't of my nature, and obviously did more harm than if I would have kept my mouth shut. I'm terribly sorry. You most certainly will not have to worry about me doing something like that again. I'm sorry. I don't expect anybody to accept my apology, but if you do, thank you in advance; I won't be here to say that.

I'm almost done, bare with me. I just wanted to tell Agent Spy and White-Shadow how great they are. If they really did that little of harm with the Nashtron account, then what do they have to apologize for? To me, they're apologizing for the actions of their other "commrade" operators. This takes a lot, and means a ton. It proves just how responsible they are, and that I wish they would continue to lead the wiki to perhaps a better future. When I said, "I question why I still come here," people like them remind me why I do. Keep it up, guys, I'll make occasional visits to see how you're doing.

And guys, it never hurts to apologize, even if you think you're right.