Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4530750-20160228040801/@comment-4530750-20160229000926

Faulkun Fang wrote: Regardless of outcome let it be clear that I mean no disrespect to anyone opposing my argument or any member of staff. Everything stated by me was in good intent and for the sake of the debate. I do not wish that any comment reflect poorly on my behalf or the behalf of TSG. That is all for me. Thank you. It's duly noted. The problem with things reflecting poorly on one's group is that just because you don't want your behavior to reflect on the mass doesn't mean that it doesn't. You are a representative of TSG by default, because you carry the tag and adhere to it both in and out of game. It becomes, for better or for worse, tied to your identity.

In-game, I represent Sparta LHL. On the wiki, I carry the tag of the admin team, which is why I hold myself to a different standard of behavior. Here, it's business. I am essentially a member of staff, and being professional is a requirement.

That said, your input has been constructive and appreciated; it offers intelligent insight, which is good for the progression of any discussion or debate.

From everything that I've gathered from all sides participating in this thread, perhaps it would be best to reinstate the comment with a disclaimer saying that it has taken a considerable amount of discussion and debate to choose to put it back up. While it does constitute of bitter criticism, it is also a log of personal experiences and feelings presented in a way that evokes thought. It gives people enough information about a situation and a patten of behavior so that they can make their own personal opinions about it and, to a larger scale, the group.

At and by large, this thread has been constructive. Time-outs (which won't count towards ban history, by the way) have been given out but only three have been given. That's far less than I was expecting. I am impressed by the level of maturity demonstrated by most of the persons participating in the discussion, especially those that have found themselves on the shit end of the stick. It gives people a better perspective about the group, as well: most of it constitutes as positive. It lets people know that not everyone in the group is bad, which may help in dispelling a degree of the negative perceptions. I don't think it addresses the whole of bias, but it's a step.

None of us wanted a witch hunt in this thread from either side and though a few nasty comments have been thrown around, it has gone well.

In any case, that ends the last of my musings about the matter. Do you guys (both sides) think it would be acceptable to reinstate the deleted comment with a link to this thread and a disclaimer saying that it was basically "cleared"?