User blog:Overwatch338/We Need To Set The Record Straight.

Hello everyone. Some of you may know me somewhat during the time I've been on this account, while others would probably know me more under the name Guyviroth. Or some of you might not know me at all. And that's probably the better position to be in right now given the content that you are about to read in the next few minutes.

This blog isn't about the recent appeal of my account's ban. It's not about trying to pander to the masses and to be a sympathy leech. No, it's about justice. Read on if you're still interested.

Introduction
So my main account is Guyviroth. You might have seen me on other sites or on other accounts (Shousenka, Godrend88, some others). I don't do an awful lot, and haven't done an awful lot in the last 2 years since my final ban. I come and go as I please, normally out of interest or sometimes because I have nothing better to do. If I were to compare today's wiki to the wiki of yesteryear then I would say it's very... quiet. Peaceful. And yet still active. That was the kind of wiki that I strived to achieve and I applaud both the users and admins for being able to achieve that goal.

So what's my position in all of this? Well, as some may have read on some of the blog posts, I was once an admin here. 5000 edits. Nominated user of summer 2011 or whatever it was. And yet I'm now in a position of being a banned user with an indefinite duration and with the only priviledge being access to my talk page (and God only knows how long that will last) and using alt accounts to access the site.

So why is it that I was banned? Well, we're getting onto that now.

There Ain't No Grave...
This isn't the first time I was banned. In fact, I was banned numerous times; fourteen to be exact. If you're interested, then here's the list;


 * Feb 20, 2010 - Genesjs. Ban was done for intimidating behaviour; justified; 1 month ban; served full time.
 * March 26, 2010 - Flashfire. Ban was done for intimidating behaviour; Injustified ban that was lifted mere minutes later due to bias.
 * June 6, 2010 - Ryushusupercat. Ban for intimidating behaviour; injustified ban that was lifted moments later.
 * July 28, 2010 - Guyviroth. Ban placed to take a leave of absence. Revoked on August 7, 2010
 * January 6, 2011 - Flashfure. The ludicrous 25 year ban that genesjs revoked due to unfair treatment.
 * January 7, 2011 - Ryushusupercat. Reinstated prior ban without reason; was lifted by Flashfire.
 * August 22, 2011 - Kagimizu. Banned for harassment even though I was no longer even talking to Ryu. Served the ban for 3 weeks; was then lifted by Ryushusupercat after appeal.
 * September 11, 2011 - Ryushusupercat. Reinstated prior ban despite having successfully appealled. Was revoke by Flashfire an hour later.
 * September 11, 2011 - Flashfire. Banned for two minutes to fix one of Wikia's known bugs which doesn't successfully unblock a user.
 * October 1, 2011 - Flashfire. Banned for apparent trolling and sockpuppeting; injustified ban that was lifted a day later.
 * October 2, 2011 - Memphis. Reinstated ban despite having been proved innocent. Unbanned a few days later.
 * November 9, 2011 - Kagimizu. Banned for apparently recreating a blog that was unjustly deleted that was "violating policies". Unbanned by Flashfire212 shortly after.

So yes, a couple of those bans were justified, and I served the duration of those bans for as long as the admins sought fit. Some of you are probably wondering, "Hey, what are those bans for intimidating behaviour for?" Well, those bans were for critiques that I was handing out to characters. Some users obviously didn't like my critiques and decided to go to an admin to ban me. As for the rest? See for yourself. Most of these bans were so unjustified that they were overturned within 24 hours. This were incredibly stupid back then, but I hope that today's wiki has moved on from such ridiculousness.

My final two bans aren't up there though. What were they for? Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

"Guy, you were banned for a reason"

Oh, yes, of course. I was banned for "flaming, trolling, and spamming". Please note that between today and the date of my last ban on that list, I had done nothing of the sort. Kagimizu, one of our admins here, decided to get the admins together and, as a collective group, voted to ban me despite doing nothing wrong. In fact, I wasn't even online during that time. I had only found out I was banned because someone had told me I was.

So what did I have to do? Nothing. I tried to talk with the admins on others wikis, but they swept me under the rug. I tried to message some admins on Skype; no replies. So I had to make a new account.

New Challenger: Shousenka
An account that some people were fond of despite it being SFW's number one badguy. For a whole year I posed as a different user from Birmingham, England. I even set up a second Skype account to keep the charade up. I did what I did best; help users with their articles, make my own, and join the chat box and talk to people. There was even a point where me, GameDezyner, and a couple other people helped clear the wiki of nearly 4000 dead pages; a hell of a lot more than the others admins combined, I might add.

Then I let the charade go. And I saw the prejudice and discrimination in everyone. Have you ever had a point where everyone would smile and wave and talk to you about your day and treat you like a normal person... only for them to turn on you the next minute and treat you like you're a piece of trash? That's exactly what happened that day. Despite all the good that I did for the wiki, and despite all the people who I thought were friends, they still treated me like dirt. Anti-Guyviroth bandwagon, and all that.

And that was that.

Probation
Users who have read the recent appeal blog would have seen the mention of my probation. What was my probation? Well, I was to be unbanned for 30 days I believe, and if I broke a single rule then I was back on the ban list. For good. Only problem was that even this failed probation was unjust.

Why? Well, when  was unbanned the first thing I did was call out a confidence call on Kagimizu for his demotion. We're talking about a guy who got me banned on the official Sonic wiki despite the fact that I had only been there as an active user once, so you can probably see why I saw him unfit for his admin position here. It went through fine. He was demoted (not sure if he's an admin again but for the time then he wasn't). And that's when it hit me.

I broke the policy stating that the person being called and the person who called it could not speak to each-other during the calling process.

And it's true. I did, if only to clear up some of the misinformation that was being written. Honestly, it's a stupid policy, but that was the failed probation. Back on the indefinite ban duration.

And now...
And now we're here. It's been a year since I had failed my probation, but I still like to visit every now and then to see how the wiki is going. Sometimes I make a contribution or two in the form of pages or just helping someone out with their page coding or whatever. Critiques here and there, especially now that I can't get banned for giving them.

So where does this leave me and the wiki? Well no doubt this account will get banned, this blog will be deleted, and I will once more be swept under the rug like the good little ball of fluff that I am.

But consider this before you leave today: If I really was a bad person, the ISIS terrorist that people like to make me out to be... Why would I help the wiki? Why would I contribute to it? if I wanted this wiki dead or vandalised, surely I would have spent the whole year breaking your pages, vandalising your articles, and spamming your wiki with pr0n pictures instead of helping Gamedezyner out with deleting dead articles and submitting my own, right?

The fact is: I don't. I don't come here for trouble. I don't come here to troll people. I come here for the same reason as all of you; to chill out, relax, and to put my fan work up for people to see.

And no, this isn't about me. This isn't about the wiki. This isn't even about me being banned. It's about social justice, and standing up for yourself. I stood up for myself in times where I believed the admins were wrong in some cases, and how I defended my right to critique. It got me bans, it got me grief, and it made me enemies. And with those enemies came hate-mongering, prejudice, and persecution like some sort of bully crusade, because the admins could wave their banhammers around and swing it without a second thought. And I won't stand for it.

Don't listen to the admins when they feed you stories or comments about how "evil" I am. If you want to know the truth, you find it at the source. I thank you all for taking the time to read through this. Feel free to leave comments or questions and I will get back to them ASAP. You know, providing this account isn't banned beforehand.