Thread:TD-Follower/@comment-39032584-20200215021045

Hi. I know we haven't really communicated directly until now, but you have voted on a couple of my proposals, so hopefully, this doesn't seem too random or out of the blue. It's just that, after seeing certain comments you made under that relatively new announcement about the stricter enforcement of Pure Evil-related rules, who gets to make proposals, etc, I thought I should assure you about some things. Despite the fact that you were voting without at least 300 edits, you were definitely giving the kind of thoughtful and well-worded reasons behind your votes that were being encouraged at the time, so it was obvious, at least to me, that you weren't deliberately disregarding any rules. That's also why, admittedly, even though I personally noticed that you were lacking the number of required votes, I didn't feel inclined to bring it up. If anything, the edit requirement seemed, to me, like a way of restricting users who were making lazy votes on proposals and little else at the time from continuing to do so, so as long as users were encouraged to put genuine thought and effort into votes, it didn't seem like a rule that needed to be strictly enforced. After all, that seemed to be the mindset of administrators and moderators at the time, based on their lack of enforcing it towards you and several others who were putting in both the aforementioned effort and thought into your votes.

Anyway, in short, I don't think you have much to be ashamed of. It was an honest mistake on your part, and even then, you were going about it in a way that the administrators were encouraging everyone to do. So if anything, you were unintentionally setting a good example for how a user with less edits should be treating the category, since if more of them had done what you were doing, then that editing requirement may have been far less necessary to put in place to begin with. Also, you're just over halfway towards the 300 edit requirement by now, so if you can come up with some other small, but sincere ways to contribute, you'll be allowed to vote before you know it. So please don't think you deserve to be punished; from what I've seen, you clearly have the right idea of what constitutes qualifying for the category, and more importantly, the right attitude in general towards it. 