I've been kinda avoiding posting in this thread because its become quite the mess of cross-posting and a fair amount of shitposting. There are a couple things I want to get out there.
@Sawrge, if you honestly think that turning a trial review into a hostage situation is a good idea, please just resign. There's something that really irks me about the "do what I want or I'm out," mentality. I can understand you have strong feelings on the matter, but if you feel you can only participate here on the condition that your choice in additions to the team is accepted that reflects poorly on your objectivity and your ability to be impartial. I also really don't like the negative light that your ultimatum casts on Danno in his own trial. I mean, maybe I'm out of touch, but I would hate to have somebody come into my own trial review and threaten to leave if I'm not promoted. There are lots of negative conclusions that can be gleaned from that sort of behavior, and frankly, Danno didn't invite any of them. If you feel you cannot continue as an admin without getting your way on issues unrelated to your actual adminship, then just resign without making yourself a martyr in somebody else's review
@Danno, I've known you to be fairly level-headed in-game the few times I've seen you online. However, I echo a lot of the concerns in this thread about your general approach to the community. Qbopper makes a good point that even in this thread alone most of your responses to things have been short deflections from the feedback given. "Danno, I'm concerned about X and how it influences you as an admin." "Yeah but what about Y?" Repeat for two pages. Its fine to joke around and have a good time, but there's a time and place for everything and that place isn't "always" and "everywhere" when it comes to casual shitposting.
To give you an idea of something specific that rubbed me the wrong way, this thread:
here. Time and place. In this case, you responded to a complaint by a player by writing out a string of Japanese. To anyone who speaks the language, its clear that the response you wrote is technically an apology. However, the manner in which you presented it was most distracting from the thread's purpose than it really had any reason to be. Antics like this is what concerns me because responding to players and player issues like this gives off the idea that you don't take them seriously. When players don't think you're taking their concerns seriously, they stop taking you seriously. That reflects on the adminship generally.
I don't want to take the honk out of the clown, but sometimes its time to put the bike horn down.