User:Entropy3927

obligatory borderline NPA rage section
You people...
 * 1) Fail at understanding game balance.
 * 2) Fail at understanding wikis.
 * 3) Don't understand the problems with carebearism.
 * 4) Are no better than the GWW crowd, and probably never were.
 * 5) Are no longer worth my time to administrate. Good fucking game, Mendel. You can have this sorry wiki.

(note that not every bullet applies to every person equally. you know who you are)

more detailed explanation
An excerpt from my bureaucrat nomination on GWW:

> ...I come from 2 years of life at GuildWiki, and heck, I don't even know the policies there by heart. I fly by my own interpretation of things, and if I'm wrong, then clearly the policy needs to be rewritten. ...I live and die by discretion; the Guild Wars Wiki:Sysop discretion log disgusts me.

I hate red tape. This means that I don't bother with bureaucratic bullshit or due process or anything like that. ... (At GuildWiki, we put things in the Sandbox, so to speak, and written policy tends to be outdated compared to current interpretations.) ... (At GuildWiki, no one really uses [the Community Portal main page] anymore, action tends to come before discussion except for truly important issues, and sometimes we even change the sitewide .CSS without telling anyone!) I am used to daily conducting important business outside the wiki, whether on IRC, through e-mail, in-game conversations, etc. I never let policy get in the way of me doing something that I feel needs doing; I enjoy abusing my status and power to make Wiki-life more comfortable for me.

I have been a sysop on GuildWiki for over a year. I have been a bureaucrat...well, for all intents and purposes, The Bureaucrat, for nine months now. ... GWW brings out my inner troll. Freed from the binds of administrative responsibility, I have no reason to contribute constructively or in good faith on this wiki. I use it solely for my fun and amusement. ... [I see] the Wiki as [my] personal sandbox[.]

This is now the way I see GuildWiki, too.

The following is still more or less true

 * Candidate, please indicate acceptance of the nomination here:
 * I Accept, on the condition that all users read the following before voting.
 * This nomination has been a long time in the coming, and I don't mean to say that in a presumptious or self-important way. For a long, long time I've said that I would not, could not, and shall not accept a nomination, and that even if I was nominated I would decline because I didn't want to be an admin. I thought I was unworthy of the job, considering what others have followed before. Skuld, Karlos, 84-175, Barek, Fyren, Gares...and more.
 * But, the longer I've been on GuildWiki, the more hours I've logged here and edits put forth, the more support I've been getting for just this sort of thing...whether publicly or privately, it began to dawn on me that perhaps, just maybe, all of these people couldn't all be wrong. Perhaps there was some grain of truth behind what some have called "the Entropy brigade", or "the Entropy fan club".
 * I've made a lot of friends on GuildWiki through my time. I know I've also made a lot of enemies. I have had my share of quarrels and bannings or near-bannings, some even requiring admin intervention. I make no claim to be a cool-minded, even-headed leader, or even a person who fully grasps and understands the Wiki policies any more than the typical user would. Quite on the contrary, I have a temper, am easily led into lengthly and heated arguments, am highly opinionated, and don't always treat those with opposing viewpoints very nicely.
 * As Readem says, I am "beyond loyal" to GuildWiki ...I'll be one of the last users here, to the dying hour. It's the least I can do for the community and the content. They have done a great service for me and it's only fair that I do the same back to them. Despite the current "issues" with Wikia and Gravewit, despite all the times I've wanted to just throw up my hands and call it quits with this damnable site and its constant troubles, I always come back. Always. Because no matter how bad things are here, I know they would only get worse if we are to throw in the towel now. It's times like these that we have to stick together: Crises should be the great uniters of us all, not the dividers.
 * If I am appointed an Admin, I want to make one thing clear. I won't make any promises. Readem, as a member of the "fan club", was probably a bit overzealous in describing me and my exploits. It's true, I am somewhat active, but not nearly as much as I would like due to RealLife(tm) as a college-bound Senior in high school. It's true, I do make some helpful and useful contributions, but at the same time many of my edits are to Talk and other trivial pages. It's true, I sometimes help new users with their troubles and go out of my way to aid people with Wiki-code woes. But, I must be modest: I am no saint of a Wikian. We all have our faults, and at the end of the day I am still an ordinary human being. If you expect things around GuildWiki to magically start shaping up because of one more admin, you'd be wrong. I can only do what I can do, to the best of my ability...No promises, No guarantees. [[Image:Entropy Sig.jpg]] (T/C) 01:45, 16 September 2007 (CDT)