User blog comment:Zippertrain85/Do people hate me on this Wiki?/@comment-5064773-20140112114400

I can kind of identify with you in terms of personality. It's frustrating to feel like people are ganging up on you. I haven't really followed the various staff promotion things and such, but here's my two cents: people probably see your name and immediately think of forum or chat conflicts because that's what stands out to them, and not the more routine and less dramatic stuff. So they bring up the stuff they remember, which might reflect on you negatively.

I don't really have an opinion on this whole staff promotion deal, so I'm not going to support or oppose. If you really want to better the wiki and use your experience (and possibly become a patroller/admin in the future), I would suggest primarily editing the mainspace and ignoring the chat and forum discussions. That way you can point to instances where you've concretely contributed to the community - stuff people can't deny even if they personally dislike you or have had some conflicts with you. I know I've gotten into fights with people here, some of them being silly mistakes on my part, but by working on the mainspace I can mostly avoid stuff like that while still helping the community. Hopefully that all make sense, it's pretty late where I live lol.