i understand the concept of the spirit of the rules and i can also tell you that overinterepting the letter of the policies by overapplying the spirit of the rules can cause a lot of problems especially when non admins such as yourself attempt to do so that being said wp is not an anarchy there are rules that everyone is expected to abide by in order to keep things running smoothly i think you can appreciate that that being said aeon wrote that he left the ama so that he could join the mediation cabral not because he had butchered his job as advocate if he had just acknowledged that he had been a poor advocate and that he was resigning because he was not capable of being a good one then that would have been okay for everyone even the admin who decided to block me agreed that my allegations that aeon seriously breached his duty as an advocate were probably true you talk about bad faith aeon pretending to help i b and immediately soliciting testimonies from users against his client and later turning around to help i b's opposing parties now that is bad faith i am all for working together and making efforts to compromise so long as it is done with reasonable people who are respectful a quick read of the talk pages reveals that nobody is willing to do this you think the mild comments i made were serious wp policy violations the list of blatant uncivil rude remarks made by others is ten times as long and a lot worse