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User:DanceDanceRevolution

Pending his approval (which he better give ), I'd like to submit DDR for re-promotion. He's pretty much sysop-ing as much as he can already anyway, and I feel he would learn quickly and adapt to the change well. Or he'd already know everything cause he's got a lot of experience and should really come back. Take your pick, I guess. Anyway, This is both a nomination and a vouch, since I feel the sysop team could always do with extra hands, and DDR tends to make those hands into little tiny Aussie fists which is good. 19:49, 31 May 2010 (BST)

I'd liek to put my two cents in as well. DDR has been proven to be absolutely untrustworthy and decieving by stating that he would retire and even leave this wiki! Instead he continues to help out the other sysops, and continues to be a contributive member to this wiki! On a more serious note, it seems to me that DDR never had to demote himself as he still edits here almost daily. It's all good though, as DDR is pretty forward when it comes to sysopship, where Yonnua, Aichon and Ross are rather passive (not that it's bad or something). Downsides? You're not as patient as the guys mentioned above and you can be quite harsh against people you disagree with which has lead to conflict more then once (speaking from experience). I think your also pretty stubborn in your viewpoints. I remember instances where discussion,with for example SA, went on for long. Long story short, you're capable and personality wise an unique asset to the team but you can get "lost" in your directive and forward approach to things. --Thadeous Oakley 20:24, 31 May 2010 (BST)

This is all in my humble opinion though. --Thadeous Oakley 20:25, 31 May 2010 (BST)

Alright. I'll be brief since I have a date with an angry and assignment-expecting university so I'm going to whip through this rather than do it 24 hours later.

I'm going to accept this nomination, not because I specifically want it as much as I see that I think it's for the best given my current status in the wiki. I'll reiterate that in a way that doesn't make me sound like an overzealous preacher; As it stands, I'm behaving like I were an op and I'm arguing and aiding ops and users as if I have a certain authority anyway and I obviously think, in retrospect, demoting was a bad idea because I certainly didn't change my pattern of activity nearly as much as I thought it would. A return to being an op would also annoy less people because, rather than bleat endlessly to the ops to, say, vote the way I think they should, I may be able to, for example, vote in a case and base my argument from there rather than run around like a headless chicken spouting globules of angry bloody text and precedents. I think behaving the way I have been in the past few months have been in a way disprespectful to the ops and the community and I'd like for that to change by actually taking up the authority, image, and accountability of an op rather than just behave like one in spirit. I think this is the more responsible thing to do.

A quick promise on my activity. Looking through my activity demonstrates a change than with my past time as an op; I've done less gnoming maintenance work and been engaged more in drama. This is simply because no authority or responsibility is holding me to the latter and if I became an op I would most certainly exhibit a more committed approach to balancing out my edits between drama and maintenance. I know promises don't fly too well on udwiki, most of all A/PM but I haven't had any activity problems in the past year and a half so I think it's fair to say I'm as good as my word.

So, I happily accept, and I'll be back to answer questions and address issues in 24 hours, perhaps sooner. --

 

 

 

 

01:37, 1 June 2010 (BST)

• Vouch - I stated my opinion above. He's not perfect, but he's a good force on this wiki. Oh yeah, how old are you? Early twenties amiright? --Thadeous Oakley 20:27, 31 May 2010 (BST)

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  05:10, 3 June 2010 (BST)

• Vouch - Cause DDR is awsome at this stuff.--^TCAPD(╯°□°)╯ ┻━┻ 20:36, 31 May 2010 (BST)
• Vouch - He has itched too many times recently to hit admin buttons, aaand, he has definitively proven that he knows what he does when it comes down to them. -- Spiderzed▋ 20:46, 31 May 2010 (BST)
• Abstain - He didn't come to my party. Lelouch vi Britannia is helping make Ridleybank green_ and gives Achievements 20:54, 31 May 2010 (BST)
• Strong Vouch - As a new sysop, DDR has acted like a mentor and advisor to me already, and he should definitely have his buttony-powers restored. He may be forward, but we need forward people on the wiki to be good leaders. I have absolutely no doubts that DDR is capable of leading in such a way.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 21:49, 31 May 2010 (BST)
• Abstain – Candidate has not indicated their acceptance of the nomination. ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 21:52, 31 May 2010 (BST)

• Hahaha, yeah, no. Against. You made the right call stepping down, dude. Stick with the decision. ᚱᛁᚹᛖᚾᚨᚾᛏ 16:08, 7 June 2010 (BST)

• Vouch - I'd say he could use the buttons again. Also, as Yonnua. —Aichon— 00:56, 1 June 2010 (BST)
• Vouch - Yeah, why not. --Maverick ^{Talk - OBR 404} 07:22, 1 June 2010 (BST)
• Vouch - hell yeah, he's a very suitable candidate. Chief Seagull squawk 09:39, 1 June 2010 (BST)
• Against We've had our disagreements but this isn't about those. Put simply, I think DDR does better work when he is not a Sysop. --Honestmistake 09:49, 1 June 2010 (BST)
• Against - DDR just quit like ten minutes ago. If he was genuinely tired of being a 'sop then, and I trusted his judgment in stepping down, then I have to question his judgment now. Status isn't a reason. Stamping your opinions with the "official seal" isn't a reason. Try being a regular user for a while and come back in a few months if you're still hungry for buttons.--_GANG Giles Sednik _CAPD 15:47, 1 June 2010 (BST)
• vouch AGAINST- i think he is a positive force on the wiki. has done lots more good than bad. and thadeous is just a jealous twit, that could never get or do the job.. stop bitching the guy does good work even when he is not an sysop. ----sexualharrison ¯\()/¯ 16:00, 1 June 2010 (BST)

  Do you have trouble reading?--Thadeous Oakley 22:04, 1 June 2010 (BST)

  no do you? and it seems like other people think your a twit also so just shut up already.----sexualharrison ¯\()/¯ 06:10, 2 June 2010 (BST)

  I just don't get how you think I'm "bitching", nor how you assume I'm jealous (of what?). You know I actually support DDR. --Thadeous Oakley 21:15, 2 June 2010 (BST)

  Harrison is naturally a volatile person to anyone who isn't openly retarded with positiveness. If your comment is one "huggles" short of optimism he'll lash out at you like a Twilight fan defending her Edward. --Sonny Corleone ^{DORIS I jizzed in my pants pr0n} 09:31, 6 June 2010 (BST)

  see that's just win sonny. how's the ass reaming going in ROTC faggot?----sexualharrison ¯\()/¯ 09:18, 11 June 2010 (BST)

  changing my vote.. mostly over this escape bullshit. clearly he has gone mad with power. as sonny and thadeous is still a massive shithead.----sexualharrison ¯\()/¯ 09:18, 11 June 2010 (BST)

  Oh man, that really hurtz ma feelings dude! How old are you, like nine? Spewing out offense for no reason other than being an idiot. --Thadeous Oakley 16:51, 13 June 2010 (BST)

• vouch -- as sexualharrison Asheets 16:16, 1 June 2010 (BST)
• Vouch - He was a good sysop before. --^A_O^R_D^M_O^P_R^I _! ^T 21:43, 1 June 2010 (BST)
• AGAINST - Stop electing the same fucking people. --– Nubis ^NWO 21:43, 1 June 2010 (BST)
• Blehbleh blah bleh shmeh meh -- Cheese 21:49, 1 June 2010 (BST)

  You know that's not really an answer that expresses opinion.--Thadeous Oakley 22:04, 1 June 2010 (BST)

  I think he's expressing the opinion that it doesn't matter what his opinion is.--Yonnua Koponen ^{Talk ! Contribs} 22:27, 1 June 2010 (BST)

  While I like DDR, the massive ton of drama generated yesterday over on VB and the fact that I don't really like his reasoning and motivations for accepting the bid has caused me to rethink my previous input. I'm, very reluctantly, going to go against. -- Cheese 23:05, 7 June 2010 (BST)

• AGAINST - Oh gee, another "I quit just to run again so everyone can stroke me off" vanity bid. Fuck off.--
  
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• Vouch. No doubt about it. G F J 11:36, 2 June 2010 (BST)
• Vouch. Deserves to be a sysop for me. --Kralion 21:49, 2 June 2010 (BST)
• Question You know that if you wanted to leave we could of banned you for a while? Break the cycle? Why do we need you back? --Rosslessness^{Want a Location Image?} 22:58, 2 June 2010 (BST)

  I've served self bans before, I know the process, the major difference is that I demoted not because I wanted to leave the wiki, it was so I could take a step back and start seeing the wiki as a hobby and less like a job. This way I could do say 60% of my old work rate and be a fraction stressed as doing 100% would make me. As a sysop I refused myself the luxury of escaping the latter because I didn't know how it would affect the way I treated the place. Now I know that happily taking the step back when it's needed doesn't hurt, I feel I can trust myself to do so as an op.

  Why do you need me back? I'm not sure you do, and as a group the op team is the most proactive I've seen since I've been here, but the way it stands at the moment I feel like I could still do the job and that adding myself to the team would help out everyone. Plus, it'd stop me going on my "you sysops aren't doing your job here is this and this precedent you are all dumheads" speeches, which I think is best for everyone, it won't take too long before everyone gets sick of them, if not already. --

   

   

   

   

  05:10, 3 June 2010 (BST)

• Vouch - Good at the job. Not a wanker. Wears a kilt. Well, two out of three ain't bad. --Papa Moloch 01:26, 3 June 2010 (BST)
• Vouch - Knew this was going to happen. You just can't leave us.-- Adward  11:19, 5 June 2010 (BST)
• Vouch: I see no harm in it, he does good work. - User:Whitehouse 12:01, 5 June 2010 (BST)
• Vouch - Keep electing the same experienced people. --VVV ^RPGMBCWS 22:20, 5 June 2010 (BST)

  Week Against - He's definitely a devoted editor, and he could put some new buttons to good use, but hidden in the pile of irrelevancies and obvious lies (no one else lives in Australia, silly) made by Sonny are actually a few good points. DDR is an aggressive debater, and while he's usually arguing for a fairly logical side, it seems he's not doing it to help the community reach the best conclusion, but doing it to get the community to reach his conclusion. To promote him would fuel the ever-present accusations of corruption and favoritism among the ops. --VVV ^RPGMBCWS 04:34, 11 June 2010 (BST)

• Vouch - Always did a good job in the past, and it's pretty clear that he's got the support needed now. Linkthewindow  Talk  05:43, 6 June 2010 (BST)
• Against - DDR is a faggot. Not just any faggot, but a faggot that can't quit being one. He thought his life was sooooo tough that he had to quit and wants to come back to prove people like him. The sysop team is already as gay as Full House, it doesn't need another fucking Olsen Twin. Instead of adding the same types of people the entire team should be wiped. And now I will explain why DDR should contract AIDS and die: 1. He's a buttbuddy. 2. He has no opinions of his own. 3. Has no common sense. 4. Pulls fucking stunts like this. 5. Contradicts himself. 6. Thinks he's cool. 7. Enjoys jokes that your mom receives in chain emails. 8. Thinks of himself as "lol random lol". 9. Was actually a back alley abortion survivor. 10. Is a crackbaby but without the crack to make him die early. 11. Is as gay as Ricky Martin. 12. Will most likely make a shitty comeback saying I'm "QQing" or miss the "old days". 13. Is mentally deficient. 14. Responds to gay comments that are borderline flirting with gay comments that are borderline flirting. 15. The previous reason means he's gay. 16. Considers the sysop team that bullies people who disagree with them "proactive". 17. Refuses to believe there is anything wrong with the current sysop team. 18. Supports Gorribus as sysop even though he's a faggot. 19. Is racist against Hispanics. 20. Likes having power. 21. Unwarranted Self-Importance. 22. Is about as trustworthy as a cokehead with cocks and cocaine in the room (he'll instinctively suck as much cocks as possible to get to the cocaine even though his morals tell him its a bad idea). 22. That despite my warning he'll still have buttbuddy faggots support him. 23. Probably sucks off other members of this wiki in Australia to like him. 24. Thinks people that disagree with him are trolling. 25. He should suck-start a shotgun. 26. Should seriously commit suicide and do the world a favor. 27. Will comment about how long it took me to write this. 28. Won't know how long it actually took but will comment nonetheless. 29. Will encourage me getting vandal banned for spamming. 30. Get this comment moved to the talk page. 31. Won't understand why he's so disliked but instinctively blame it on people being jealous of something he doesn't even know. 32. Doesn't understand basic logic. 33. Would probably have sex with another male member of this wiki. 34. Cannot stay away from the wiki even if he tried. 35. Can't answer this question: "If you become a sysop again what will prevent you from joining the current oligarchy of sysops again and continuing the cycle of e-corruption that only 16 yr olds are guilty of?" --Sonny Corleone ^{DORIS I jizzed in my pants pr0n} 09:27, 6 June 2010 (BST)
• Vouch Because he is cool. Also he has swagger.--Raddox MurTangle 09:49, 6 June 2010 (BST)

  Case in point. --Sonny Corleone ^{DORIS I jizzed in my pants pr0n} 09:57, 6 June 2010 (BST)

  I love lasagna. --Raddox MurTangle 10:16, 6 June 2010 (BST)

  AbstainI still love lasagna.--Raddox MurTangle 00:00, 8 June 2010 (BST)

• I clicked literally three links to this site, one was RC, one was promotions, and another was you being a douche. :|

  Whatever happened to retiring? Against.--Big Cat 17:19, 7 June 2010 (BST)

• Against After seeing how he acted yesterday.. I'll pass on seeing him as sysop. --S _{e n e r g y} ^T 21:48, 7 June 2010 (BST)

  What exactly was wrong about what happened yesterday? I've het to be proved wrong, and it's yet to be demonstrated how it would show me as a bad sysop. Perhaps you don't understand. If I were a sysop, it would never have escalated past the second edit war, and the right result would have been achieved within 10 minutes. --

   

   

   

   

  03:21, 8 June 2010 (BST)

  Complete immature way of going about things. Good thing Boxy came in and settled it. I see an absolute difference between DDR and Boxy in handling things. You made things a lot worse, why should that behaviour be given power?You need to be moderated --S _{e n e r g y} ^T 04:37, 8 June 2010 (BST)

  I think you've got me mistaken for somebody else. Boxy intervened before I became involved, it was Yonnua who was in an edit war with Jorm. Similarly, you've demonstrated why you are also judging the conflict with the wrong reasons, as Boxy did. Boxy made the wrong decision in the aim of stopping drama. This should not happen. He took the easy way out simply in order to prevent an edit war and gained the wrong result and as such rewarded a vandal for it. If you think that that's right, which you obviously do as said above, then I don't need to further prove to you that you're wrong in your reasoning. --

   

   

   

   

  05:00, 8 June 2010 (BST)

  Then it leaves this all to opinion, so let's not go any further into who was "right" and who was "wrong" .. But here's a quick example of that immaturity I was talking about "FUCKIING AWESOME ALL I HAVE TO DO IT BREAK THE RULES IS ENFORCE IT WITH 4 HOURSOF EDIT REVERTTS! I'M IN!" Yeah and the "shitbrains" comment seemed to do a great deal of goodness and fixing the problem as well. Clap clap for you, maturity levels have sky rocketed! Now let's give you the power to ban. - What I'm really saying here, is what I admired about Boxy's way of handling it is he tried to handle it, he didn't rage on Jorm like a kid --S _{e n e r g y} ^T 05:36, 8 June 2010 (BST)

  more discussion on the talk page --

   

   

   

   

  06:39, 8 June 2010 (BST)

• Against Clearly. --Jorm 23:39, 7 June 2010 (BST)
• Against - As Sonbun. --Amber Waves of Pain 23:53, 7 June 2010 (BST)
• Against - demonstrates a lack of judgement and poor anger control. -- Bisfan 00:18, 8 June 2010 (BST)
• Against - As Amber. Never disagree with her or she'll kill you lots. -- Grogh 01:00, 8 June 2010 (BST)
• Against - As Bisfran. --Kouchpotato ^T 03:30, 8 June 2010 (BST)
• Against I do not believe DDR is fit to become sysop. And needs to learn to be polite. --GioV ^{DORIS|Red Rum} 23:39, 7 June 2010 (BST)

  We already have plenty of polite ops, it's actually quite useful to have someone on hand who doesn't pull their punches when it's needed. I have to sleep some times. 03:47, 8 June 2010 (BST)

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  06:27, 8 June 2010 (BST)

• Vouch because I love bloody coups. Vive la Revolución! -- » JS talk contribs » 04:07, 8 June 2010 (BST)
• Vouch - He's a cool bloke, active, competent, obviously cares about the wiki. It'd be a waste not use his ability and drive. Plus he's no pushover, and yesterday's episode made me think the sysop team needs more teeth. --Sophie ^{◆◆◆ CAPD} 05:03, 8 June 2010 (BST)
• Against - As most of the other Against voters, they've already stated it better than I could. --Rude Sykes 05:36, 8 June 2010 (BST)

  You mean the other meatpuppeters? --

   

   

   

   

  05:37, 8 June 2010 (BST)

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  06:35, 8 June 2010 (BST)

• Against - really wanted to vouch but http://wiki.urbandead.com/index.php/UDWiki_talk:Administration/Vandal_Banning/Archive/2010_06#User:Jorm Cyberbob  Talk  05:44, 8 June 2010 (BST)
• Vouch - Because I don't care for the drama Weeks 06:04, 8 June 2010 (BST)
• Against - He angered That Lemmy Lookin' Metal Dude, or so I'm told... and because nobody in the history of the world has ever said it before: As GioV --THE Godfather of Яesensitized, Anime Sucks ^{Yalk | W! U! WMM| CC CPFOAS LOE ZHU | Яezzens} 07:00, 8 June 2010 (BST)
• Abstain I was going to be against, saying the wiki needs new blood or else it looks like a junta run by the same people, but screw it. Its basically a nexus of drama anyway so why bother... --Irishmen 12:20, 8 June 2010 (BST)
• Against - He's the epitome of internet coruption and another member of the teeny bopper junta that should not be given power. --Leon Silverblood 07:18, 9 June 2010 (BST)

  Hey guess what, this guy has edited here until february, this is his first (and only) edit since then. Seriously, yet another meat-puppet. Some people are sad :/ --Thadeous Oakley 11:06, 9 June 2010 (BST)

  At leased this one gave a slightly funny and satirical reason. --

   

   

   

   

  12:07, 9 June 2010 (BST)

  You know that the DEM likes to vote en masse against people they don't like right? Leon is in the DEM if I remember correctly. --Sonny Corleone ^{DORIS I jizzed in my pants pr0n} 20:50, 9 June 2010 (BST)

  You know this isn't a vote right? If you could read you would. 22:03, 9 June 2010 (BST)

  You do know I'm not in the DEM, right? You may want to contact them yourself and tell them this. --Sonny Corleone ^{DORIS I jizzed in my pants pr0n} 05:24, 10 June 2010 (BST)

  Never said you were, but, once again, basic reading skills would have told you that. 05:33, 10 June 2010 (BST)

  Ok, let me re-explain this because I think you're being a bitter faggot. Leon votes (despite it not being a vote but for lack of better words he voted), he's called a meatpuppet, I point out that the DEM does this all the time, you tell me its not a vote and if I knew how to read (lolwut?) I would know this, I tell you to tell the DEM this because they don't know that, you still tell me I should learn to read (ok?). I have deduced that you're a little bitch Mr. Stefano. --Sonny Corleone ^{DORIS I jizzed in my pants pr0n} 15:07, 10 June 2010 (BST)

  Simplest way to put this for you without too many big words: There's no point in trying to hold it over someone's head that there's a possiblity of a few users signing up to this wiki (or using dormant account, whatever) to chime in on a topic that's ultimately decided by a small panel based on the input of the actual community, not raw numbers pulled from various arses. Whether or not the DEM show up doesn't matter since there's just not enough of them that are actual contributors here to count. So if you understood the simple concept of this whole process, you'd realise that your post above was even more useless than the wastes of space you usually come up with. 15:16, 10 June 2010 (BST)

• Against --Hibernaculum 19:53, 9 June 2010 (BST)
• Vouch with Mudkips. I might not have been around for ages, but I have checked up on the recent events going around. And aside from that, I know DDR from since before I went idle, and he definitely have the right stuff to be a SysOps. Although this vouch doesn't go without sacrifice, since DDR becoming a SysOps may jump him past me, the ex-number one, in the most linked to User race... --•▬ ▬••▬ • •••• •▬ ▬•▬• ▬•▬ ^{#nerftemplatedsigs} (status:‎Mudkip!) 01:49, 10 June 2010 (BST)
• Against - Seriously. Stop trying to get this dbag voted up. --S Aline 04:35, 12 June 2010 (BST)

  Stop being a mindless drone, and starting thinking for yourself instead of doing what others tell you. Srysly. --Thadeous Oakley 09:45, 12 June 2010 (BST)

• Ohdeargodagainst - not a bad sort, but has shown time and time again he makes off the cuff decisions based on whose cock is in his mouth at any given point/what drugs he's been taking that day. All over the shop. Not sure how he's slipped that one over all of you, probably the charm and down to earth good looks. either way, enjoy him - you're all fucked. x 12:18, 13 June 2010 (BST)
• Against Someone who evades bans is not the kind of person who should have power. Especially if their nick when evading said ban reflects how proud they are to be circumventing the system. --Teksura^Talk 03:20, 15 June 2010 (BST)

After discussion with Ross, DDR will be re-promoted. He has proven himself to be a competent sysop in the past -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 08:50 15 June 2010 (BST)

And you two have proven to be competent bureaucrats by reminding all the meatpuppets that this isn't a vote. Even though I can relate to some of the "against" voting pointing out certain weak points in the candidate, specifically the past drama, the entire anti-campaign was needless and justfully ignored. --Thadeous Oakley 09:00, 15 June 2010 (BST)

It wasn't ignored. It was weighed up against the support that was given. The main thing that was ignored was your constant whining about meatpuppetry -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 10:10 15 June 2010 (BST)

Ouch, as the victim of said meatpuppetry I found it quite reassuring. --

 

 

 

 

11:39, 15 June 2010 (BST)

Meatpuppetry was funny to see, but everything must be weighed in, no matter how useless.-- Adward  16:27, 15 June 2010 (BST)

Oh of course. But weighing it in as anything more than one man's (Jorm's) anguish justifies the poor attempt at abusing the system. --

 

 

 

 

02:21, 16 June 2010 (BST)

All you need to do to get let back into the playground is to apologize in public. That's it; nothing more, nothing less.--jorm 02:36, 16 June 2010 (BST)

That remark was completely uncalled for Boxy, and did you seriously weighed the (dis)approval of the active community with the same value as of the (mostly dis)approval of some folks who likely will never show their face here again? Of course you didn't, otherwise DDR wouldn't have passed. We pretty much agree, and yet there you come with a low blow. You really need to be of that level to show obvious dislike? --Thadeous Oakley 16:41, 15 June 2010 (BST)

Yup. Either way, thanks, I'm going to mellow out just doing little tasks for a while anyway. --

 

 

 

 

09:15, 15 June 2010 (BST)

User:Saromu

• Archived as unaccepted -- boxy ^{talk • teh rulz} 08:28 8 June 2010 (BST)

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