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If the leaks were faked, and I'm not going to dispute your word that they were, why didn't you all come out and say that immediately?  Majorly even posted the leaked logs to his blog.  If you all are forthright and honest in your communication of issues, that will head off a lot of controversy.  If someone says, as I have, above, that the IRC is full of filthy language, instead of ignoring it, say something like, ""the use of profanity on the admins IRC is unacceptable and I've accepted ownership for fixing the problem and am committed to exiling any admin who can't abide community standards there or anywhere else"" or ""if they don't clean up their act I'm going to throw the IRC off of Wikipedia and I don't care how mad it makes David Gerard"" then you would receive some well-earned respect.  Middling, avuncular claptrap isn't going to cut it, and I think you know that, because based on your responses to other questions, you carefully apply inductive and deductive logic to your deicisions and responses.  So, please accompany your explanations with some decisive decisions.  Whether they work or not, I think you'll be supported just because you're trying to do something.   "