Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27577399-20160820130125/@comment-24808864-20160820155253

Hello, I just saw this and want to emphasize that it is important to me personally that a thread like his remains constructive and polite. I do believe that one can offer constructive criticism in a polite way, and if for some reason things turn negative I am going to shut it down just to preserve the peace. But if everyone that responds can do so politely (with positive and/or negative remarks) I think it would be useful!

I think I was partially responeible for coming up with the idea for a "liaison" position and talked with the admin team at the time about it. When I first mentioned the "liaison" position to the admin team, I saw it as a position where someone that was on the wiki would be able to practice or learn to be an advocate for the community and for themselves.

Amzingly, Light Runner has, on the other hand, changed this intention and almost turned it into what I would consider a position for future leaders!

In my experience, as far as I have witnessed, LR has been a great influence, especially recently. He is often on the wiki, he is often in chat, he has given others the benefit of the doubt, and he is careful with privileged information. And that is only on the wiki! In addition to that I have personally witnessed that he helps others out with programming questions, shares his knowledge openly and freely, and seems to genuinely care about allowing others to learn and mature! When I first met LR he was a little combative (remember the long "two wrongs make a right conversation" on the wiki and with respect to KA) but since then I have seen him take the higher road and trust others instead of assuming the worst possible interpretation.

My only real criticism is that he still accidentally gets pulled into conversations on other wikia that I would consider "feeding the trolls." There are certain kinds of people in the world that will consider those that try to encourage free discussion and knowledge to be "manipulative" and "dishonest." For the Americans in the crowd, this is especially true during the current election cycle, but in a micro sense it even occurs here on wikia. I will always err on the side of talking things out though, so I can't fault him for trying to talk things out with difficult people! He might even be doing better than I since I decided long ago that certain situations are just not worth it!

In summary, without reservations, my vote is that Light Runner is certainly a "pleasant, nice guy." Although he and I have not always seen eye-to-eye in the past (and I am sure we will disagree in the future too) on this wiki he has shown qualities of a just leader. I enjoy working with him and look forward to learning from him and with him into the future!

I hope this is what you were looking for Jett, and that I haven't written too long! Take care!