User blog comment:CommunistPotato1945/In Response to "Farewell"/@comment-27404954-20160527044534

This post clearly shows your ignorance of everything from Kitty's invasion to Marc's status.

First of all, Marc was on his way down the food chain in any case. The highest he ever rose was "moderator," and in the administrator election, he attempted to falsify votes -- an unconscionable offense. TATO, understandably, was quite angry about this, meaning that not only did Marc lose much of his past credibility via this falsification, he also lost it via his near-past deleting the posts of anyone who disagrees with him and banning them from chat, as well as the recent look back at how Marc roleplays and does foreign policy.

Furthermore, when Marc left the wiki before TATO had a chance to flay his hide -- though I will say that Harmon and the constant USN flame wars had more of a hand in the situation --, he left in the middle of three wars.

Three!

Israel was fighting P.A.N.Z.E.R, Kitty had invaded France with Cattiria before Marc left, and the United States was in the literal middle of a protracted USNiE invasion attempt.

Honestly -- and this is why I voted the blank option on the poll below -- I used to like Marc.

I really did. Israel was one of the first navies I belonged to, and one of the first I really bothered to develop a character for. (Though that backfired rather fast, as I was awful at fiction in 2013.)

However, increasingly, Marc has grown unstable under the stress of the wiki and his personality has changed. And not for the better.

I used to like Marc and enjoy his company. Now?

Now, I don't know what to think.

I still respect him as a shipbuilder, but he's become increasingly abrasive and snappish over these three years, and as he rose within the wiki hierarchy, he gradually grew more and more enamored with power for the sake of power... not that that is a feature of him or a derogatory statement to him on my part specifically, but that it was something which happened.

After the US flame wars and the conflicts therein, Marc leaving was fixed. The only question was when...

...and how far down he'd go before then.

I still respect Marc. I still like him, though not as much as I used to.

But Marc needs a break from the wiki. For both his and our sakes.