I think this issue needs to be brought up in a more official place, and is long overdue.
The Skial Admin BBQ Prophet has been causing way more problems than he's worth, and I have sufficient evidence that I think warrants him being removed from the position.
First off, he's rude and just gives off an air that's bad for the community. While this in itself wouldn't be enough to get him removed if he did his job well, we can also see that he doesn't even do that right. He's been involved in 2 too many controversially triggerhappy bans, and that's something he should not be allowed to do anymore. He's also been complained about by a lot of server regulars, whom may I remind you are the main people we are trying to appease here and the whole reason the rules exist.
2 examples of him being involved/influential in controversial bans where his only evidence is his word:
https://www.skial.com/threads/ztg-«bbq»-prophet-notadr-this-admin-is-abusing-his-authority-and-lying-on-my-ban-appeal.69583/#post-703908
https://www.skial.com/threads/appeal-♛-jojo-da-pope-♛.69560/#post-703856 (Same case)
https://www.skial.com/threads/appeal-stealther.68956/#post-699744
(Notice that all of which were overturned by KillerZebra.)
He's handled about 20 appeals from what my research came up with, and he has done something out of line twice. This means that 10% of the time, from what we see on the forums, he's messed up. Other admins have had about one of these controversial bans if any in a number of years. Of course, I found more examples where admins have disagreed with him and their opinion has been swept to the side and ignored, and a ton of examples of him just lacking common courtesy in a bunch of his appeals and reports, amounting to about 25% of all of the one's he's handled that I could find in his history. Now the scary part is, if you take what he's done here and consider the things he's done outside of the eye of the forum, in a more privatized place, then him banning for controversial or wrong things 10% of the time is deeply concerning. Especially when you consider how many people appeal/report in comparison to how many people actually get banned on Skial. I personally think that the Jojo example was where he crossed the line. I highly doubt that he thought that ban was warranted and fair, but he knew the rules and used a statement someone said in a very joking way and banned them permanently without warning. BBQ says he warned them, but him saying "It was a prank" doesn't count. I know my research is limited because I'm but a simple forum regular and have not seen his in-server behavior, but from what I hear from the people who have seen it, it is far from what we want being the face of our community.
All in all, BBQ Prophet is just not worth the trouble. We have a great trade moderator in the form of Sargent Y and, while the extra help is good, I do not think that someone who reflects so negatively on the community should be kept in power. The examples he's already made could easily be used to further lower the reputation of our servers, even if you disregard his appalling attitude towards the regulars whom he considers beneath him. People do not like feeling belittled or treated unfairly and this is something BBQ Prophet does to everyone universally. Including to admins, of which I can name at least 5 off the top of my head who agree with my opinion. A little extra help is not worth losing reputation or infighting among the admins.
Thanks for the consideration, and regardless of what happens, have a nice day.
The Skial Admin BBQ Prophet has been causing way more problems than he's worth, and I have sufficient evidence that I think warrants him being removed from the position.
First off, he's rude and just gives off an air that's bad for the community. While this in itself wouldn't be enough to get him removed if he did his job well, we can also see that he doesn't even do that right. He's been involved in 2 too many controversially triggerhappy bans, and that's something he should not be allowed to do anymore. He's also been complained about by a lot of server regulars, whom may I remind you are the main people we are trying to appease here and the whole reason the rules exist.
2 examples of him being involved/influential in controversial bans where his only evidence is his word:
https://www.skial.com/threads/ztg-«bbq»-prophet-notadr-this-admin-is-abusing-his-authority-and-lying-on-my-ban-appeal.69583/#post-703908
https://www.skial.com/threads/appeal-♛-jojo-da-pope-♛.69560/#post-703856 (Same case)
https://www.skial.com/threads/appeal-stealther.68956/#post-699744
(Notice that all of which were overturned by KillerZebra.)
He's handled about 20 appeals from what my research came up with, and he has done something out of line twice. This means that 10% of the time, from what we see on the forums, he's messed up. Other admins have had about one of these controversial bans if any in a number of years. Of course, I found more examples where admins have disagreed with him and their opinion has been swept to the side and ignored, and a ton of examples of him just lacking common courtesy in a bunch of his appeals and reports, amounting to about 25% of all of the one's he's handled that I could find in his history. Now the scary part is, if you take what he's done here and consider the things he's done outside of the eye of the forum, in a more privatized place, then him banning for controversial or wrong things 10% of the time is deeply concerning. Especially when you consider how many people appeal/report in comparison to how many people actually get banned on Skial. I personally think that the Jojo example was where he crossed the line. I highly doubt that he thought that ban was warranted and fair, but he knew the rules and used a statement someone said in a very joking way and banned them permanently without warning. BBQ says he warned them, but him saying "It was a prank" doesn't count. I know my research is limited because I'm but a simple forum regular and have not seen his in-server behavior, but from what I hear from the people who have seen it, it is far from what we want being the face of our community.
All in all, BBQ Prophet is just not worth the trouble. We have a great trade moderator in the form of Sargent Y and, while the extra help is good, I do not think that someone who reflects so negatively on the community should be kept in power. The examples he's already made could easily be used to further lower the reputation of our servers, even if you disregard his appalling attitude towards the regulars whom he considers beneath him. People do not like feeling belittled or treated unfairly and this is something BBQ Prophet does to everyone universally. Including to admins, of which I can name at least 5 off the top of my head who agree with my opinion. A little extra help is not worth losing reputation or infighting among the admins.
Thanks for the consideration, and regardless of what happens, have a nice day.
