RuneScape:Requests for adminship/Earthere

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I'm not the most mature, efficient, friendly, or grammatically-correct editor, but I feel that I've reverted many acts of vandalism (around 80-100), made dozens of repetitive edits, and enchanced a large handful of pages. Also, I've been around RSW for over half a year, so I wouldn't call myself "new". =P I have never liked typing long, drawn-out explanations for anything, and my contributions will speak louder than anything I could write, so yeah... just look at those. (P.S. Sorry about the self-nomination)

''I, Earthere (Abyssal), accept this nomination for adminship. I have read the policies concerning administrators. I realize that this nomination may fail. If I do get community consensus, I promise not to abuse my powers because I realize that this is a serious offence and if the community finds that I have done so, my powers will be revoked and in extreme cases I could be given a community ban. Signed, Earthere 22:13, 9 March 2008 (UTC)

Discussion
Before I vote, explain this. H YENASTE 00:53, 10 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Both were from fights with Christine. The first block was dished out after I criticized the fighting between Christine and Ilyas, later unblocked by another sysop.  The open proxy I was using while I was blocked (didn't know blocked users could edit their talk page, just trying to explain myself to Christine, got frustrated) had evidentally been used to vandalize another Wiki.  The second block happened because of a misunderstanding with Christine over RS:3RR; both of us were blocked for 2 hours even though an RSW-based RS:3RR didn't exist at the time.  Not shown in the block log: I've gotten in a dispute Tarikochi which was also resolved. I really like Tarikochi's animations and Christine's Exchange: namespace idea, among other things, so I bear no ill against either of them. Sorry if that was hard to read
 * Lol, I remember that. You and Christine were arguing and started reverting and then Christine blocked you for the 3RR, then I unblocked you and told iChristine to block herself as well as you or not block you at all, so she decided to go with the blocks. Christine was blocking you based on Wikipedia's 3RR policy which was copied / modified for RSW soon after the incident since we didn't have a 3RR policy at the time. Since when has the Exchange: namespace been Christine's? It's not a namespace yet, although I did declare consensus at the Yew Grove. Good luck with the RfA, I want to hear a few more opinions before I vote. 02:08, 11 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Thank you Gangsterls. =)
 * Support - Self nominations are not a "bad" thing. You can either do that, or ask someone else who you know to nominate you, and there is nothing wrong with either of them. It seems to me that people draw this assumption from the "RFA Rush" (as I call it) when many very new users were self nominating eachother. If you feel you're deserving, then go for it =). You're a great person, you're nice, you've been here for a while, and I think you're deserving. Good luck. Edit - You've also made about a hundred less mainspace edits than me even though you've been here for way less time than me. 20:10, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

 Support - You've contributed a lot, don't have a temper- which would make you more prone to have a blocking spree -you've been here a while, and I can't think of a reason not to support other than your block log, which was full of not-big things. 21:47, 11 March 2008 (UTC)

Neutral Lots of edits, sure, but also repeated vandalism and multiple blocks. 12:22, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Not vandalism, and not advertising. Christine was fighting with multiple users, I was tired of seeing that happen, so the image was representing how silly the arguments were. Read my response to Hyenaste for what the blocks were for. Thanks,

Oppose Per Tesfan. (I dont like Neutral as an option) Cheers! Atlandy 12:38, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Neutral - Per my reasons, and the links Tesfan brought up. 19:25, 12 March 2008 (UTC)

Please do read - Just out of curiosity, does anyone believe my side of the story? It's really pointless to throw away my account to make 2 "unconstructive edits". I'd never do that. I had a reason for posting 1 caption on Christine's talk page. The picture was of two really short people getting in a fight with each other, which showed how silly the arguments on RSW were getting.

If you think about it, it wasn't any worse than posting a comment saying, "Hey guys, your fighting is pretty stupid". Sure, it wasn't the nicest thing I could've said, but it wasn't any "hey ima post sum randm offensv image 2 piss off admins" sort of garbage it's being made out to be. Although I knew the image had been deleted, I had no idea Tesfan reverted it before hotlinking to the same image. Yes, I uploaded one unconstuctive image to Wikia servers, not really a large offense, seeing as how dozens of editors had done that in the past.

I've seen crap happen in community pages, and the discussions there would make my "excessive personal attacks" look like compliments in comparison, like UoM opposing. No offense, but a handful of people in that situation were administrators. All of them retained their rights as sysops, none of them really deserved it taken away, so I don't see, in comparison, a huge problem with my "fights".

Before you vote, please look at the bigger picture of me as an editor, and don't take one incident and rip it apart. What happened happened months ago, and much has changed since then. This is probably the most I've ever written on RSW, so please forgive me if this was too ranty or hard to read.

It looked to me like you were trying to frame me, or something. You put the link in my post, and then said "Wow..." at the bottom, like saying "Wow how dare you, Chia. Linking to such an image.". That's just what I got from it though. 23:34, 12 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I think it was more of a "Wow" about the fight, not the image (what was wrong with it anyway?). Can't believe there was a UotM bitchfest that I wasn't in on =/. But then again, this winter's been my RS off-season in a way. Still trying to keep up with the times on the wiki. Oh, wait, nvm. I remember that UotM vote in August, lol. We didn't have a featured user in September because of the fighting, but I never bothered to join in the fun. Or something like that. 01:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Yeah, I really didn't mean for it to come off like that. Sorry Chia. =/
 * Kind of like what interrogators on CSI say, what was your intention, then? And about Degenret's comment (further down) about grudges: Assuming that I'm included in the audience that that was directed too, I just now found out about that, and I've been "holding a grudge" for a few days, though I've "let go", you could say. 19:52, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * I'm really not in any position to explain every little detail from 4 months ago... Just to clear something up, I have nothing against you.

Even though I haven't been around much I have to say that everyone on the wiki (well, except for a very select few) is guilty of the fighting. Even those who don't jump into the fray directly usually take sides. These shouldn't be brought up on every RFA or UotM nomination or... whatever, talk pages, the IRC. All of us hold grudges for far too long. Eventually you have to let go of it and stop digging it up whenever a fight breaks out. The point of this page is to determine whether Earthere would be more of an asset to the community if he was an admin. Not to fall back into old arguments.

I'm not going to support or oppose on this. I just want it to stay on-topic. All those links annoy me. 01:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

So is this open to all, or just current sysops types? And do people really carry grudges for ultra trivial things for months? If he killed you mom I would understand, but come on, lets get over it.--Degenret01 02:06, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Open to all. Yes. Agreed. Lol. 02:09, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support If one takes the time to review his edits for a bit it seems he is trying to contribute in a positive manner. And since that is supposed to be the number one criteria based on some page I read but can't find now, I say ok. It's not supposed to be a clique or special friends group. Its all about the wiki. Period.--Degenret01 10:26, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
 * Support - You've made lots of edits, and reported a lot of vandalism. And I don't see how you "vandalized" on Christine's talk page, really. 20:46, 14 March 2008 (UTC)

And here's the vote most people have probably been waiting for. I've not had working browsers for a while, and have been informed of the progress of this nomination through IRC. And wasn't ever able to respond. That was hard. But I've read through this and I'm really angry at what has been said about me. That I was "fighting with multiple users at the time," which I wasn't, and as if that actually justified the attack on my talk page. I doubt anyone has noticed, or would be willing to admit this should they know of it, but I've been fighting with people a lot less lately. But it's like no one can forget anything done in the past. On someone else's RFA it's brought up, and the actions of another are blamed on me. I've never done anything like that before. I don't know how this RFA will turn out, but if Earthere is going to blame what he did to vandalize and block-evade on me, and not take responsibility for himself, then I will have to oppose. Christine TalkFlickr 18:30, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
 * That happened 4 months ago Christine. I've been trying my best to be nice to you ever since, and yet you've still been a freakin jerk to me all this time. Sorry, but I'm just saying the truth, something I think I have the right to say.

Oppose: Good admin candidates don't remove others comments from other people's talk pages. Also, per Clv. -- 18:51, 15 March 2008 (UTC)
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