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

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I would take an "innocent until proven guilty" stance and forgive and forget, although I would also push for EmpyreanSmoke not getting his admin rights back until he has earned back other users' trust. However, I noticed that the latest contributer post on the [|Bureaucrat blog] (the post from a day ago, at the time of this writing) sounded exactly like EmpyreanSmoke, but was referring to EmpyreanSmoke in the third-person as if to indicate that they were two different people. I was fairly certain that it was EmpyreanSmoke because of word choice, and confirmed it by looking at the IP address. EmpyreanSmoke, that, too, was dishonest. That was an example of sockpuppeting. You were advocating for yourself while deliberately pretending to be someone else (as seen by you avoiding using "I" or "me" in favor of "EmpyreanSmoke" and "his"). This is exactly the cause of the trouble you're in, so I would advise you not to do it when advocating for your innocence. I'm still willing to forgive and forget, but this is another apparent showing of disingenuity from you, one that cannot easily be argued as unintentional or not what it seems.

Empyrean, if you have done anything the users are accusing you of, please just admit to it, apologize, and promise to not do it again. Personally speaking, I would actually take that as a sign of trustworthiness, and it'd rebuild a lot of the trust I had in you that was shaken by the reveal of your apparent wrong-doing. The evidence at the moment is looking very bad for you, but if you were to cop to any wrong-doing, we would be able to see that you are capable of owning up to your mistakes and being honest with us. Again, apologizing, promising not to do it again, accepting the loss of your rights, earning back others' trust to rebuild your reputation and regain those rights (which, honestly, going by FTWinchester's comments, doesn't sound like much anyway), would all pave the way to forgiveness from the wikia.

If you are truly innocent, then I am sorry for any stress this is causing you, but hopefully you must be able to see what we are saying and understand where we are coming from.