User blog comment:DontAskWhoJoeIs/Proposal: Give Spongefan511 a More Fair Punishment/@comment-30107948-20191226084505

this is in no way a vote, this is just something i felt the need to bring up

one of the many excuses spongefan gave for his behavior was that rules were different in his time. and that he didn’t think adding opinion categories would count as vandalism.

https://spongefan.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:30557 well if you look at this thread, he says that an unregistered user was adding nonsense categories to pages and is sort of indirectly saying he wants them blocked by saying “it’s driving me crazy”

although this at no point says that opinion categories weren’t allowd back then, this does show that they considered nonsense categories to be vandalism. so they more than likely felt the same way about opinion categories, and i am pretty spongefan was claiming recently he didn’t know categories would count as vandalism

again this is in no way a vote or anything. this whole spongefan situation is just: user states spongefan messed up, spongefan defends it, later apologises, does his own thing, goes back to defending it again even though he’s been doing his own thing and nobody mentioned the previous situation