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 ::Also, [http://italia.snowsherrill.com/index.php?title=Template_talk:Main_Page/Trivia Italia suggestions] [[User:Gstar|Gstar]] ([[User talk:Gstar|talk]]) 21:03, May 20, 2025 (UTC)
 :::How many wikis are you banned [[User:Ed the Horse|Ed the Horse]] ([[User talk:Ed the Horse|talk]]) 21:06, May 20, 2025 (UTC)
+::::Not sure the number, but it's def over five. I'll do my best to give a transparent account as to what occurred. So this was from a few years ago. Out of respect towards others involved, I won't give names. There were people who didn't like me for trying to hold NIWA accountable for defending the inclusion of zelda.fandom.com, since it seemed about as logical as Cartoon Network doing live-action shows. One of the ZW executives was always in my friends list, so I wasn't inherently excluding ties to anyone linked to ZW, I just didn't like the lack of logic and was irate about it and wished more people understood me.
+::::I was way more irresponsible and reckless with my conduct, using profanity and slurs as well as picking fights with random people on Discord. Some of them alleged harassment, since I was quite loud about it, but a clear instance of it occurred in early 2022, when I targeted someone for pursuing a full-time librarian career. This was at a time I was being spoonfed tons of [[wikipedia:Conspiracy theory|conspiracy theories]] (which made me suffer) and the librarian's code of "upholding intellectual freedom" sounded like complicity in an alleged [[wikipedia:New World Order|New World Order]] plot, like they wanted to control what books we read, what information we know, and so forth. And I passed along gossip and insults about the person to everyone. I deeply regret what I did, and the person's friends did good at sticking up for them. My friends list was dropping like flies. I left Discord, stating that I'd never do such a thing again. Three years later, I've still stuck to my word, and that's about the most I can do to people who dislike me.
+::::I still have my reservations about librarians: that part hasn't changed. Librarians always do this "shhhhhh" in public libraries, even if you drop a pencil on the ground lol. I guess it's just my view point that libraries should be hangout spots, since it's a publicly available building generally with lots of space, and if people want to read books quietly, they can do so in designated book clubs, even if they're rooms in libraries with their own sound barriers. So much unexplored potential to be had. Now even if I hadn't done all the profanity and stuff mentioned above, people were getting upset at me because I said "librarians are [[wikipedia:Karen (slang)|karens]]," to which they said stuff like "it's their job". Nobody gave a clear argument to the contrary, and some think I'm still insincere due to my dislike of librarian practices.
+::::Now, I was also trying to play into trying to give people a clear reason to antagonize me because it seemed like no progress was being made at preserving the integrity of indie wikis from association with a Fandom-owned wiki in their alliance. The toxic people who targeted and hated me didn't jump to the rescue of the person whom I targeted. I upset the people I didn't intend to.
+::::Then about one month later, feeling I had nothing to lose by that point, I made a [https://www.mariowiki.com/MarioWiki:Proposals/Archive/58#Remove_Zelda_Wiki_as_an_interwiki_link proposal] about removing zelda.fandom.com as an interwiki link, stating "the MediaWiki software allows links to Fandom wikis, so it's redundant." It was also me trying to upset some people and use the bad things I did (like picking on the person pursuing a librarian career) as a skin-suit for "look at me, I have common sense! I'm the antagonist!" They didn't play into that at all: they colluded in secret and manufactured these several false allegations and used screencaps of me using slurs and profanity to try and get everyone to hate me to defend the wiki: that is what we call a [https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hit_piece hit piece]. Unlike the people I didn't want to upset (and were rightfully angry at me for targeting someone), they didn't defend that person at all, nor did they even mention the person. They made it all about how I'm all these bad things rolled into one and made all these statements completely out of nowhere, all because of a silly proposal over a silly interwiki link. And then the permaban occurred on the Super Mario Wiki, from the coordinated hit piece they did on me any place they could, appealing to emotion over rationality.
+::::And that's my story about why I hate Discord and social platforms with a fiery hot passion: When things occur, it spreads like wildfire between communities. They say the internet never forgets as well. Meanwhile, places like this are self-contained with their own culture and all, just like the Internet was in the 1990s and 2000s.
+::::Also, zeldawiki.wiki is on okay terms with me & I'm a friend with one of the executives, who believes in forgiveness because I felt like an irredeemable crime for everything that occurred and all the mistakes I had made. If an exec of the primary wiki I targeted at the time can forgive me, I want to say that I'd strongly implore other indie wikis to do the same, but of course, they won't. [[User:Gstar|Gstar]] ([[User talk:Gstar|talk]]) 21:56, May 20, 2025 (UTC)