Talk:ESB 2016 - 2018/@comment-2076042-20190409221025

I think that this blog is very fair. I do wish to add my perspective on things, mainly regarding the behavior of Brick.

Throughout my time knowing Brick, I've hated him. Even mentioning his name seems to bring back bad memories. He manipulated people, abused his power, and barely helped the wiki. He is partially responsible for the removal of tabbers in infoboxes.

I think one of the most prominent examples of his unhelpfulness is when he was tasked with putting up the SB-129 Day background. On ESB, there are, or were, background contests, which I partially created. These contests allow(ed) a variety of backgrounds to appear on the wiki, instead of just one or two every once in a while. SB-129 Day is the unofficial name for the date of the present-day storyline of SB-129, which was March 6, 2017. This meant it was a background that could only be around for one day. Brick, who was one of the few admins online that day, failed to change the then background to the winner of the SB-129 Day contest. This caused a considerable backlash. I think this is one of the first times he appeared as a bad person by the general community. He claimed that he was unable to do so because he didn't know how to change the background. Regardless of how true this is, he did not try to contact another admin to help him. Brick was very defensive and tried to put the blame off on other users for not contacting other admins to do it. While this is true, I think blaming other users for not doing something he should have done is just terrible.

Blaming other users was a huge part of his character. Brick also tended to act like he knew everything when he was confident and nothing when he was being attacked.

I feel like it would be wrong to talk about my relationship with Brick without talking about the hate group that I was a part of. Looking back, I definitely think it was a bad idea. I also believe that stuff like that mentally messed up one of my friends, who was also in the group. The group was created to basically prove that Brick was a bad person. However, it became more of a group that was hell-bent on destroying Brick's reputation. Supposedly, on multiple occasions, there were folders filled with bad things that Brick had done on a member's computer. I don't know how much help the group did to prove that Brick was a bad person, but I definitely don't think it was worth the group's existence.

I'm not sure if people truly realize how much power Brick had. Alex was not the only one he manipulated. He was able to get things done just because he complained about them. No one else had that much power. I don't think even AMK152 has that much power. Brick was able to manipulate votes in favor of his perspective. Brick was basically able to do whatever he wanted.

Looking at SpongeBob456, he is starting to act more like Brick did when he was at his prime. He certainly seems to have the Staff's interest in mind like Brick did. However, I suppose me going into 456's behavior is for another time.

I think, overall, Brick was not a good user. I don't know what kind of person he is now, but I certainly don't think I'll be on friendly terms with him any time soon.