Board Thread:Special Admin Messages/@comment-32555140-20181228134002/@comment-24530269-20181229121115

If I may add some stuff to it ...


 * 1) Totally agree with the ruler part. There is no such thing as an "owner" on Wikia. Wikis are community projects, and if you really, really REALLY want to get technical than FANDOM / Wikia owns every single wiki / subdomain without any exception. Everyone who claims they own a wiki is objectively false and mistaken in every possible way without bargain or reason.
 * 2) Not only do you guys have so many admins, but just look at the mods - 30 content mods, 88 discussion mods and a whopping  89  different chat mods - which is just extreme.
 * 3) Why is every demoted admin made a Content Mod? It's clear they won't use their rights for anything, or better yet, won't return from inactivity in the first place - there is literally no point in just throwing them one barrel lower. If an admin or mod is to be demoted, then just remove all of their rights completely. Keeping them as Discussion or Content Mod has zero value in it other than pretty much causing an overload of Staff Members. As example, it's clear we won't be seeing Aaron again - why is he still a mod? Over half of the active users on the wiki are the very least a Chat Mod. There's literally more "ranked" users than "unranked" ones.
 * 4) Wikis are community projects - this wiki however seems to have an extreme case of hierarchy. Let me explain: Chat and Discussion Mods are not considered "true" Staff. Only Content Mods and up are. Discussion and Chat Mods can't have special username CSS stuff. Content Mods are limited to just a gradient-coloured username, but admins can have any username style they'd possibly want. Admins can have custom Profile Tags, yet no one else can. You see the issue? The more we ascend the ladder, the more we see groups of users get unique privileges that other users don't have. On this wiki, user rights are flat-out called "ranks" and seem to be given as reward some of the time.

MasterFrown0704 wrote:

My whole point is that literally we have like 2 active bcrats. This is the first time I've seen you in months man. 2 bureaucrats, very possible 3, seems like enough to me. This wiki has just over 2K+ pages; 2-3 would suffice in my opinion.