User blog comment:AmazingPythor/Important: Demotion of Veralann/@comment-4825926-20170309113914/@comment-5510093-20170309190146

Roddy that response was entirely directed toward Slice, don't come at me like that. Slice, regarding your demotion I couldn't give a crap, if you had PMed me I would have told you exactly the reasoning behind it, everything about it. It's a case about you after all. If BNR had contacted me I would have been able to tell him stuff about Dumbles and RoboticBrick while of course doing my best to protect the people involved in those cases.

Trouble is, nobody here cared to do this properly, or sensitively. I hold the people who asked Hype to leak information in the first place the most responsible for this, but as an admin or even just as someone who was currently campaigning to be an admin I need to be able to KNOW, without a doubt, that Vera will be a diligent admin, sensitive to the privacy people expect when they come to us with personal things. This screenshot of a conversation gave me and all the other admins a reasonable doubt that Vera would be that person, and so we demoted him. It's as simple as that.

In response to why we did not reach out to Vera regarding this, yes, I personally believe we were at fault there. I asked if anyone had talked to him regarding this and the response I heard was that if he planned to go behind out backs with this we couldn't fully trust what he said to our faces. Also at that time our informant hadn't confirmed if he wished to remain anonymous or not and we didn't want to out him by confronting Vera.