Of Old Times and New Hardships

So I've been receiving a lot of questions as to what really happened that day on April 1st. The day where two people lost their jobs because of the will of other people. Because of my actions in the community post last weekend, I am obligated to explain. And, forthright, lay this all to rest so we may all live and forget.

This shall be the last time I open this book, and it will be here for all to see.

This is what happened that day.

On March 31st, 2012, everything was going as usual. Things were nice, and everything was going rather well. It all started when Insane Lugia was making multiple threads...
Lugia was making personal help threads (That actually helped with some of my sleep problems, thanks for that.) that were being posted within hours of each other.
In the wake of his third (Fourth?) thread, I suggested to Lugia that he make a universal thread for help. It was at this point where things started to get pretty nasty.
ePONY snapped at me rather aggressively, stating that it wasn't against the rules to post threads that had different topics. I responded that I very well knew that it wasn't against the rules.

Months prior, we had an argument. It was about me becoming staff, and if I had the transcripts, I'd post them.
I had told ePONY, one day, that Foxy was considering me for a community moderator position. And he, upfront, said to me 'I'll be brutally honest, Saikyo. You don't have what it takes to be a moderator. Your actions are too immature.'
At the time, I took that at great offense, and we argued for hours over the subject of my immaturity. I already knew that I was immature, my baseless pride, however, didn't want anyone telling me that I was.
To this day, I wonder if things would have been different if we hadn't had argued. But it became clear that ePONY harboured a certain dislike towards me to the point of bias. And I thought to myself, if he had bias against me, he had a bias towards his boyfriend(s), Lugia and Cyberpony.

And I called him out on that. I said to him to 'Keep your bias against me away from the forums.' I didn't want to call him out on his bias to his boyfriend(s) in public, because that would get me banned instantly. He simply gave a rather professional 'Don't question my motives' post, which angered me a bit. So, in good esscence, I made a thread saying that I was going to leave for a while to cool down.
Here is where things get interesting. I basically called ePONY out on his bias against me in a thread I created entitled 'Taking a Break', in which he banned me temporarily for 3 days, under the reasoning that ' I needed to cool off'.
That was his downfall. By refusing to admit his bias and rid himself of it, I took it upon myself to take action against him.

I immediately went to work on organizing something that would rid the site of his bias, but not in the form of firing him. I wanted to put him on temporary suspension, and make his relationship with Cyber known with the staff (Surprisingly, people didn't know that it was an actual relationship.) and possibly make them remove all eCYBERmous content from the site and to force them to make unbiased decisions from now on.
Things went over my head.
After this, I went to Foxytail. I asked what it would take to do anything against ePONY. I needed names. And I needed a decent number of them.
EDIT: I also made a video detailing how ePONY was doing wrong to people. Sorry for getting you involved, Dan.
Conveniently, a forum by the name of Friendship is Magic: United was created to get past Staff Corruption. I saw this oppurtunity to question some of the founders and frequenting members of the site about their relations and thoughts on ePONY.
A majority of them said the same thing: ePONY was a problem that made them leave.
It was at this point where it wasn't just about bias. ePONY made the environment uncomfortable for other people, something I found to be unacceptable. So I took action.
I gathered names and opinions from a variety of users, and I showed these names to the moderators on April 1st. The only people I continually talked to about this situation was Cloudy Bounce (We miss you <3) and most of the moderators of the forum.
The mods asked me what I wanted done with ePONY. I honestly don't remember if I wanted him full-on fired, or if I wanted the bias to stop and for him to be put on suspension for a while. That was Foxy's idea, and mine as well. So I went with the latter.

Things didn't go as planned.

When confronted with this, ePONY basically just up and packed his bags immediately, saying, and I do quote '**** you guys.' Cyber followed suit, turning in his badge.
The one thing I regret was not emphasizing the fact that I only wanted ePONY to be punished for his offenses toward the people of the site, not just me. People claim what I did was selfish, and at first, it -was- selfish. It was a selfish need for revenge that I was being hated.
But then I saw that other people felt wronged. They felt threatened and violated by how ePONY acted. And it turned from a selfish act to a duty of mine to rid the site of his bias.
Part of me wanted him gone. The other part wanted to put him in his place, but have him stay all the same.
Would I go back and change a few things that I did to accomplish said goal? Yes, I would.
Do I regret having him leave?
Not in the slightest.


There was no 'manipulation' involved. There was no malicious intent, nor was there any reason to lie about it. This is the cold, hard truth of the matter. Yes, I did overreact, but the end result was positive, in the end. People came back to the site, content that a problem they felt was big was rid of. People thanked me. And most of all, I felt at peace with myself for ending that conflict.
These claims that I'm hiding something, or that I manipulated people into thinking that they were my 'followers' is wrong. I have nothing to hide and nothing to gain.

A month and some days later, I became staff. And it has been my goal to rid it of bias, and I've accomplished this goal. But what else have I done? I've caused infighting and stress with everyone.
I've decided that, After Christmas is overwith, I'll be resigning. But I'll be here, and I'll still love this place and it's people, and I'll do my damned best to protect you guys from oppressive personalities.

What I did was both wrong, and right. And I have no regrets.

This chapter... is over.