Look. This isn’t my place, considering how I’m waiting on a decision from the higher ups regarding myself, but as someone who WAS an admin (and hopefully will continue to be soon) and is part of the community I feel an obligation to respond, and I have to agree with Willis here. It’s completely ridiculous to tell someone “shut the *edited* up”, and when they don’t, you kick or mute them. If he’s saying there was crap going on before you got there, you have to realize what’s going on. Even then, after you took action on him, did you take any actions on people that were goading him while he was silenced? Doesn’t seem quite fair to me, if you get my gist.
*Ren stands up and puts on his “Ex” hat*
As an admin in this community, we have an obligation to follow and enforce the rules. That means finding out exactly what is happening in a given situation before acting out with admin powers that may accomplish nothing but cause people to look badly at the server and it’s administration. You’ve been here long enough, actually I think longer than any other regular admin, to know what you should be doing in a given situation. From what it seems, you didn’t do *edited* to see what was going on. And unless Willis is lying, which I don’t think he is, you didn’t do what you should have.
*Ren removes his “Ex” hat*
Sorry this happened to you Willis. I’m sure that someone higher up will look through the logs, see exactly what happened, and take the necessary actions.