User blog comment:MisterGryphon/The State of the Wiki./@comment-25546749-20121107034442

I'll go ahead and address these in order of appearance.

The tension? Yeah, we're all having insane disagreement issues. But that's part of life, because everyone is bound to have a different view of things than someone else. Trying to get everyone to work is the fun part, and we're in that phase right now. If someone is being opposed, then there is a reason. If we're trying to work together, than that opposition issue needs to be resolved one way or another or it is just going to continue to grow. And Cacher is acting like a strong, community involved user, just like you and me and maybe more so. His welcome message is a welcome message, and there is nothing wrong with that (see this). His bot? Yeah, I believe that is being used to perform tedious tasks that would have otherwise taken quite a while if done by hand; not to look important.

Too many admins? There's five active ones to how many people edit this wiki in a day. Yeah, I don't think so. And like I told you before on the other blog by Mattplazz (MinecraftRogue's comments seem to have been deleted by him, by the way...), Jguy was one of the five people that sent in the adoption request. Each of those guys were promoted, him included (but later than the rest). The inactive staff still have rights because they have no reason to have them removed. It is standard procedure (and common courtesy) to leave an administrator's rights to him, even if he is going inactive. The exceptions are if they are being demoted because of disciplinary actions or if they have resigned themselves and wish to have them removed. Otherwise, they stay on. And people can apply with any amount of edits because that's just what we have. If you'd like, we can vote in a required amount for a user to have in order to apply. That's up to the community.

Not doing our jobs, huh? Well let's see: an administrator's job, based on their given tools, is to maintain the quality of the wiki by deleting pages and files as needed, protecting pages and files to prevent vandalism and edit wars, removing and dealing with vandalism and those who do it, and blocking users if actions demand it. Shall we check my logs to confirm that I do my job? Oh, and check Jguy's logs as well. And only 30% of my edits have gone to mainspace, yes. Why? Well, if logs counted as edits, I guarantee you that number would be different. Take a look at that link above and see for yourself. Also, in case you haven't fully noticed, we're sort of in a crisis over here. Most of my time has been dealing with blogs and threads much like this one. Those take another 25% of my edits (adding user talk, blog comment, and thread)edits. And yes, Wikia is mostly about editing. In fact, any wiki under any domain is about editing. Well guess what -- I'm a slow editor. Yes, I edit and I consider myself a flipping good editor when I do, but I am not a person that edits 300 times a day. I just don't work like that. Partially because I'm busy here in my own life, but also partially because I do not look for stuff to edit as actively as others. (Keyphrase: not as actively. That means I still do, but not as much as, for example, Rogue.) And please get your quotes right. I told you that I use chat a lot, not that I use my admin rights for chat a lot. Big difference. Like my logs point out, I use my admin rights here quite a lot. Come to think of it, I still have not used any of my admin rights on the chat. Yeah, check the logs concerning chat ("chat ban log" from that dropdown). You'll find nothing. Zilch. Nada.

I cannot believe you just said that. Now I must ask why you have chat moderator, when you clearly do not give a flip about anyone new that comes here. I'm just going to say that it is the polite thing to reply to a question. If all they want is a quick answer, then good God give them a quick answer. You're already using up your time here anyway, so you might as well help somebody. At the very least, you could be not quite as rude to everyone that sends you a message. I've seen how you act on chat, dude. You seriously need to get an attitude readjustment. I wasn't there when you were promoted to chat mod, so I do not know the reasons. But if you want to keep those rights, I suggest you act more mature and be polite and courteous to others.

I've done my best to be respectful and to fully respond to this. I do become very opinionated when it comes to how people interact with their fellow users, so if you find my last paragraph above disrespectful, I'm sorry but that part struck below the belt for me.