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You’re misunderstanding what I’m saying. Let me give you a recap. Up until last September or so, Nexus had been an admin on this site. He was an admin for a numbers of years, and he did a hell of a job at it. His insight was always good, and he could be very honest when he wanted to—bluntly so at times. Never one to just roll over and change his justifiable opinions because I said I disagreed, Nexus always brought those valuable insights and was always a good springboard to bounce ideas off of.
Additionally, Nexus was always someone who was able to be a fair and informed arbiter of RP disputes. He kept up to speed on the RP when he needed to, and he made sure he heard all sides of a disagreement and got all of the facts he needed to get and could get before rendering a decision. Even if you didn’t like the decision, you could at least respect it because you didn’t think Nexus was doing it because he held a grudge or a bias.
So over the last few weeks and months, Nexus had become increasingly active again. That was good, I was happy to see that. I started to think about whether he was someone who could become an admin again. I kept that thought on ice a bit, because I wanted to see if he kept up that level of activity. When he did, I asked Nexus if he was interested, and he said yes. I then asked the other admins via PM, and, after a few hours, they got back to me. The response was a unanimous yes, and I officially gave Nexus the offer. That’s when I set him as an admin again.
Now that I’ve said it like that, you can see that there weren’t any other candidates. It wasn’t “no second choice” in terms of “there’s no one else qualified.” There are other people on this site who could become admins if we were going to replace an administrator or if we just wanted to add additional ones, depending on our needs at that time. It was “no second choice” in terms of the fact that we were only asking Nexus. We weren’t just hiring any administrator and decided to go with Nexus instead of someone else. This offer began and ended with Nexus.
I also am quoting this post.
