User blog comment:FTWinchester/On EmpyreanSmoke's Case/@comment-11331875-20141203235445/@comment-5433366-20141204091432

If you had acted mature during your time as an admin, maybe the community would take your word more seriously, but now you're stuck here expecting us to believe you over strong evidence that you're guilty. It just doesn't add up well. Your pointless, childish, embarrassing edit wars only led to you and Imperiex being stripped of your admin rights and left with a bad reputation. Your negligence of the wiki and abuse of your power all led to this. Admin rights are used to improve a wiki, not for your personal glory or ego.

Asking for bureaucratic rights was irrelevant and, as Caleb said, an obvious power grab. Letting you rule (as you would have put it, I'm sure) this wiki would have been the downfall of it. On the surface, this appeared to be nothing more than a game to you.