Um no

Showing complete bias to members who kiss-ass rather than honoring the hard-working members trying to get ranks legitimately is trivial?
Not what I'd want to hear from you.

The fact is doesn't seem like a big deal to you is a big deal.

Yet your reactions to the announcements of Randy and myself stepping down were, for lack of words, extremely low on the care-meter.

For my level 4 topic, for example, after Jayson brought it to your attention, you posted your lackluster two-liner, and then proudly proclaimed in the lobby:
<Lordy|AFK> posted jayson
<Lordy|AFK> i don't have much to say on the matter

Honestly, it's apparent to me that you don't even want me in council anymore. But that's fine by me, I don't mind being a thorn in your side.

Let's be real here for a minute, Gene. How long have you been waiting, no, dying to get Keanu back in this clan, but in an even more increased role than he ever was?

It seems to me that the only type of council member that you like is the one that will never disagree and/or argue with you. Case in point, public defamation:
<Lordy|Shower> Jayson, Randy and Kevin... you can go stick a pineapple up your asses
<Lordy|Shower> http://www.wildernessguardians.com/forum/i...showtopic=22443

That's just a wonderful thing to say in the lobby, isn't it?

That came from your own fingers. I'd be well within my rights to demote you on the ground of having harmful intentions toward WG. Don't ever forget who I am. I've been soft for a long time, from since before you joined the council. You do not want to see the fire burst out from within me. I am not stupid and I am not incompetent. I've been doing this job for a long time... long enough to know when a council member is being a brat who is putting on his big boy boots and trying to defend his childish actions.

I didn't have much to say on your resignation. Frankly you lost your fire to lead about 3 months ago. You've literally been doing less than I have. What exactly is your contribution to council other than to post your personal opinion on things? And what makes you think that's enough? I could get any member's opinion on a change. When you resigned I was not happy to see you go but the way you gave up on things long before softened the blow for me.

To answer your question, how long have I been dying to get Keanu back? I will answer honestly and without bias.

It didn't cross my mind until your intentions to leave were made clear. With Randy going and you to follow, and a rumour on the wind that Rachel might leave too, it was in my interests to fill the void, and Keanu is the only person with enough dedication to help me cope with a potential crisis of stability.

That's more than I can say about you. Let's talk about your next point. The only type of council member I can tolerate being the one that doesn't disagree with me? Absolutely not the case. I've had plenty of disagreements with you. Recall the gear checks, which by the way have become a complete joke and need to be revised. I was against it but I yielded considerably to your demands.

What DOES shit me is when I get a complete dose of bullshit from you. Remember at all times you are not my equal, you are under me and I have final authority. Only through my softness have you been able to get away with treating me like a lesser leader.

Between you claiming I don't listen to people AFTER THIS MATTER WAS AGREED UPON BY THE 20 PEOPLE AT THE TS MEETING, UNANIMOUSLY, and Randy basically blackmailing me with a TT intro, you wonder why I'm showing signs of aggression. Then you proclaim how being a thorn in my side is not a big deal. Well, it's actually a bigger deal than what forums Keanu can see.

If you want me to talk to you respectfully, earn it. You've been lazy with council work, spoken to me poorly on more than one occasion (I'm recalling the gear checks discussion we had), and shown apathy toward a lot of things I've said. Then I find you're thinking about resigning and have been in a meeting where you decide WG should die off.

And then you find the balls deep inside yourself to make a post saying I'm the bad guy.

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I finish by saying this, Kevin.

No, I was not happy to see you resign.
Neither was I happy with how you'd been behaving prior toward this.
Yes, I am happy to keep you on as council provided your attitude changes.
From what things look like in this topic, it won't.

I'm in a lose-lose situation. Lose you, and therefore a potentially awesome council member, and by extension a great deal of morale. Or keep you, and put up with a whole bunch of in-fighting and bullshit. If it were my choice, I'd have you stay in council, and talk through our personal issues.

If I insulted you with lack of care on your potential leaving, then it had the intended effect. You first insulted me by descending to the lowest a council member can go, and DARE say that this clan was "destined to fail".

He's been in the clan for 4 days.

This is complete bias towards your friends. You really think he's the most dedicated member of WG unquestionably? Are you even online while most of the clan is or even at events? No, you're not. I could name 5 more dedicated members off the top of my head. Truth is you only think that because Keanu wakes up in the morning thinking of ways to please YOU and not WG and its members. WG is taking him in because they'll do anything for a morale boost, but I guarantee it will be the same old in a few months. The Historian rank is bullshit. I said this from the very beginning. It's only an excuse for you to do less work than you already do (after all, you explained website/graphics was your burden, remember?). Keanu is one of your best friends and you know he'll never show the maturity to be a leader so that's you way of returning the favor while the rest of the clan laughs at it.

All of Keanu's "work" is just recording the work of other people. Because he sits there and writes a diary he deserves special treatment? That's a slap in the face to every member in WG. Do other clans have a Historian rank? No, they fucking don't and there's no problems between the members like in this clan.

Because 3/5 leaders were not at a meeting (the ones that disagree with you, coincidentally) our opinions are invalid? Is that how this leadership works? Newsflash: You don't even attend 80% of the meetings we have but we still post everything in here for opinions. You think you're being a good leader by begging someone to rejoin and instantly promoting them? If that's what this whole leadership is about then I'm glad I'm gone. Your opinion of what's "good" is clearly skewed as you can tell by WG's progress in the past 5 years.

Insulting Kevin for being lazy is a fucking joke. He does more than you tenfold.

I'm keen to hear what.

Yes, he has. Hardly enough time to show dedication, I know. Why I said what I said is because he was totally ridiculed by WG, banned by us, flamed by us, rep bombed by us, ignored by us, MYSELF INCLUDED, and after all the agony we caused him, he comes back to us lovingly. Who could make such a boast? I would have too much pride to do that. That is one reason I can call him dedicated without question.

Because he is my friend, that did not affect my decision. My decision was affected by WG's need for an active, hard working member to keep us ticking. To fill your shoes Randy, I could think of nobody else. He's not exactly warlord material, but he works hard. I do think he's the most dedicated, for the reason I said before and for more. Here's another one: In his previous tenure, he attended all the events (especially wars), posted in all the topics, was online a lot, and spoke to everyone. He would drop whatever he was doing in RS to join people or assist people, and I'm not talking about myself.

It's true I am not, but I would be if I were American. This is not fair. For an Australian to be as active as an American they have to work a lot harder to do it. To attend the Aussie raid, you set your alarm for 7:45am. To attend your standard war, I set my alarm for 4:30am. I can't help being Australian and I can't be online at the times you want all the time.

It is true that Keanu is tailoring his efforts towards me as he respects me a great deal. There's no way I could deny this.

Again it is possible he could recede into his old self and cause a lot of drama. It was a risk I was willing to take, due to morale as you said. May I always be prepared to take risks for this clan. You look at the negative, but I remain optimistic that Keanu will do more good than harm.

Hmm. Let me think about this one. Let's take website and graphics out of the equation. The wiki page he made has brought us recruits. His documenting of mistakes prevents us from repeating them. Additionally he has video editing and coding skills that have been put to use. Not to mention every time I hype up a war, he's there helping me.

No lie, he is not one of my best friends, but he is a friend. One day he will be mature enough to be a leader, but from his merits alone and not from his standing with me, he has earned the rank of historian, which is useful to WG, and I see that I'll need to make an IA on exactly why.
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Couldn't finish responding, Gotta go to the gym now.

Randy, I must with utter humiliation concede that Keanu's brown nosing has indeed affected me, but not to the extent you think. I have great empathy for him, but not because he is my friend, but because he loves WG entirely, not just me.

I've never seen someone love WG like that. Not even me.

Yes, he tells me what I want to hear a lot of the time, but I'm mature enough to see past that and STILL find a quality member who has a lot to offer WG - much more than the cost of keeping him, which I also know to be high.