User blog comment:Tanglefrost/Regarding the Recent Drama + New Chat Rules/@comment-26485526-20180917175645

Thank you so much for posting this blog, Tangle!

I will admit that I haven't been a perfect angel in regards to this drama. That being said, a lot of stuff that I have said is (at least in part), due to me venting my frustrations with all of this in private messaging/discord. I do not mean to use that as an excuse, and if words of mine have resulted in the pot being stirred or have led to fighting, then that's on me, and I apologize.

In saying that, I am also going to admit to being one of the people that has deliberately avoided chat to stay away from the drama. There have been times where within 5 minutes of getting in chat, I have been PM'd by 3 different people to update me on the latest shit, or to try and get info out of me, and I am just so over it. Again, I have not been perfect in this situation by any means, so some of this is self-inflicted. But seeing all of this flare up again last night pissed me right off. I was dealing with this shit in private discord already away from chat, and seeing that this had flared up again, knowing the cliques around here that have formed, and seeing 15-ish people in the chat, I just couldn't do it.

This drama has been physically exhausting for me, and I have other shit going on in my personal life too, so I don't need this. The stupid thing is, I know that a lot of you probably have shit going on in your lives too, so you don't need it either, but here we are!

This wiki is supposed to be fun. As I said in that blog I posted a while back where I thanked the wiki for everything it's done for me, I viewed this wiki as an escape from shit going on in my life. I thanked you guys and I wished that atmosphere would never change. But it did, we as a community have changed, and it pisses me the fuck off! This wiki used to be fun, and while it still is to an extent, it takes me right back to all the stupid fucking cliques in high school. As Tangle said, even the AWARDS were cliquey this year, and I'm just so done with it! I want my wiki back, this blog shows that Tangle wants that back, and I see in these comments that other people want it back too. Let's please follow these guidelines to cut down on the drama!

I will not be discussing any of this in chat anymore with anyone that is not a member of the admin team. I don't want to be avoiding chat because that used to be one of the few places I could go and take my mind off of whatever bullshit that happened during the day. I say that to reel myself in as well because when I get emotional, I say shit that I probably shouldn't and 7/10 times, I will try to phrase that as a joke to poke fun to try and make light of it, even though that is the wrong thing to do.

Thanks again for posting this, Tangle. Let's do better as a community and cut this shit out. That's all I'm going to say.