I'm not sure if anyone will hold your political views against you returning, but for what it's worth, I'm glad to see you're back as admin again.

welcome back jayde!

After a post like that satire one... I must say... Oh no way.

I don't see why you'd have an aversion to him being admin for that reason alone though. Jayde has always had his political views, but he was a good admin before. Nothing's changed about him, other than the fact that he's now refreshed and feels ready to come back. There's no reason his admin skills should be bad this time around, no more than it was the first time.

When he talked about coming back, literally my first reaction was to request that he refrain from donning his admin hat in political discussions where an obvious bias may exist. I also asked that he keep the rhetoric to a minimum. He agreed on both counts, in the interests of keeping this place as amiable as possible.

As a pretty avid right-leaning libertarian who has read all the topics in question and that also vehemently disagrees with some of his main talking points, I can get behind this. I make an effort to stay away from the discussions for my own reasons, but if there would be someone to want to turn him away on the basis of his affiliation, by literally all accounts it should be me.

Jayde did a lot for the forum, and I have no reason whatsoever to doubt that he will do so again. Part of being a functional team is acknowledging each other's strengths and weaknesses. We don't happen to see eye to eye, but that doesn't have any baring on the fact that he is willing and able to do a lot of good for the site as a hole. In my time working with him, I've known Jayde to be a competent and rational administrator, which is good enough for me.

Glad to have you back Jayde.

I tell you what, Destranis.
You've made your opinion very, very clear during your time here. Everyone's entitled to their opinion, of course, but I think we get the point.
In the interest of making sure you don't get picked on, I will endeavour to keep my distance from you in a staff capacity. No, this doesn't mean you have carte blanche to break rules where you know only I will be watching in the short term, and it doesn't mean that I'll abstain from a vote if your behaviour merits staff intervention and the sort of action which requires a vote in the first place. What it does mean, however, is that I'll do everything I can not to intervene, either against you or on your behalf, when you're directly involved.
Because here's the thing. I've got some pretty strong opinions about you as well. I'm confident that they won't get in the way of doing my job, but you aren't so confident, and I get that. As such, I'll remain as hands-off with you as it's possible for me to be. How does that suit you?

Jayde, during that time I was unable to be here, in fact I changed a lot both regarding my personality and behavior. I went through too much shit in this period of time that I would be surprised if I didn't change. Never tried to come back with illegal actions, because I didn't want to do more harm for myself, I am nervous enough on a daily basis so I didn't need it at all. But even if a lot of people told you it's not okay what you are doing, you did never try to change, you still think you opinion worths the most in this place and it's a really huge disadvantage if someone loses credibility in your eyes. It would interest me the least if I lost credibility in a stranger's eyes on the internet who doesn't even know me and who I don't know at all. I guess, at this stage, both of us would need help but as far as I see, none of us gets it from the right people and so we are both rebelling for nothing.

Destranis, I'd just like to point out here that the behaviour you're exhibiting, at least toward me, is pretty consistent with what it's always been. Notably, I made you an offer of conciliation, and you basically ignored it in order to tout your personal growth and impugn mine.
If you've had time to learn and grow during your ban, that's a good thing, but I haven't exactly seen evidence of it yet. I'll give it time though, since it's entirely possible I'm missing something. I would like to point out that "I didn't try to sneak back in before my ban expired, since I didn't want to torch my chances" is...kind of a pretty low bar to set. I mean, congratulations for not being Urh2006 or Simter, I guess?

All that being said, I am convinced that there is nothing I could do, short of literally trying to be someone I'm not, that would please you. You have a way of viewing things, and nothing's going to shake you free of that. I'm fine with it; in prior encounters with you, I'd have tried to convince you to change. Now, it's a lot more simple. Stay on the sunny side of the rules, and you can think whatever you like. If you have grown as much as you say, this shouldn't be difficult, and we shouldn't have any issues going forward. I will maintain the spirit of the offer I made in my last post in this thread, as well.

You're a good admin, this is where you are great at using your potential. Welcome back. Just to clarify, this isn't sarcasm. You've helped the forum in a lot of ways, more positive than negative overall, and there was even a point in time when you were like the only active admin, so the whole place didn't go down in chaos.

Probably a necessary evil I suppose, though not what I'd have done.  Here's hoping it goes better than last time, and that people avoid making problems for Jayde as an admin because of personal reasons when ever possible, for the sake of the forum.  Fight your battles carefully and consider the ripple effect of your actions guys, please. I'll be doing the same.