Posted by Fleet Captain Jerome Davis (Presidential Candidate) in Campaign HQ - Davis/Sinclair - An Apology
Good Afternoon,

On behalf of myself and my ticket, I wanted to issue a public apology for an honest mistake made by me and me alone in an attempt to thoroughly and responsibly answer a question in regard to a serious & sensitive topic that is incredibly personal to me… the topic of gaslighting. Last night, in responding to Fleet Captain Adam W., I went a bit too detailed in an attempt to make a point incredibly clear as to not make any one person feel personally attacked. In doing so, I ran afoul of of the TOS itself in sharing the full text of the article I cited in my response to Adam. I cited the article as best I thought I could in this format and posted the response, hoping I had both provided the necessary citations needed to meet Election rules while also thoroughly answering Adam’s question. I made a mistake in treating this more like an academic paper (I was close to citing in Chicago format) and not a post in a online community that has always gone above and beyond to keep third-party content off the site.

I want to apologize to both the membership, the Exec and my running mate for this mistake. As I said in response to the EC… “it was, truthfully, an honest mistake made in attempt to be completely thorough in discussion of a highly sensitive topic.” and I thank the EC for bringing it to my attention.

We all make mistakes, learn from them, and become better people. I humbly ask each of you for your forgiveness in this matter, a mistake made with no malice, as I continue to strive to be a better serving member of our wonderful community.

Kindest Regards,
Fleet Captain Jerome Davis

Jerome, thank you for your post here.

Just for clarification purposes this was not just an election issue it was a copy right violation over the reproduction of third party sources. This falls under the Terms of service rules for the site not the rules of the election.

Members, both candidate and non-candidate in both the election and elsewhere, going forward should be aware that while academic citation might have been used It does not allow for straight copy and paste of a full article. Clips from said article and examples used from it to validate and support points made in an argument are fine. If in doubt I would always ask someone first.

Again thank you for the professional manner you have tried to deal with this in.

Calé