User blog:FutureKnightX/Clearing confusion and starting healing

Hey guys, I'm making this blog post as it appears there has been some confusion as to why chat is shut down temporarily. You guys think it's just trolls and mods cannot handle them. Untrue. We were handling them, however as a result of the fact that we were implementing new policies along with heightened emotions as a result of the trolls, regular users started getting out of hand. We were kicking and banning people who never even had a kick before. People were starting to get very aggressive towards each other and it had no signs of stopping.

In addition to this, users naturally turned much of their aggression on mods, especially me. If you would recall, I was TRYING to take a break from the stress it was causing originally as it was causing a headache, nausea, and heightened aggression from me, so I naturally recused myself as it was clear I was in no situation to mod at the time. And it was after I took my break that the crap hit the fan and tensions rose to a fever pitch to the point where a mod quit. Yes, I made a mistake there, but I acknowledged I did. People need to stop acting like I never did that along with ignoring all the good I did.

Anyways, as I have seen in the past few days, tensions have lowered a bit, but it's still too high. You guys need to have faith that we are getting this done and PLEASE stop harassing me and Gallatin for actually trying to get the situation under control so that it wouldn't get to the point of a shutdown? We were doing our jobs to the best of our abilities and people are acting like we intentionally screwed things up or something. Please stop. And I am still sick, by the way. When the source of an illness doesn't go away, the illness tends to not go away either. I feel like you guys expect me to work as I have always done, except now with an illness and while you guys keep hurling insults and complaints at me. It's demoralizing. I ask you please stop it and wait for us to get this done.

On a final note, I wanna get some healing done and get tensions lowered some more, so I want you guys to post nice things about people you've met in chat, nice chat experiences, and/or how chat has affected you in a nice way in the comments below. We have had enough negativity, so I ask you to please not do that here.