Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5619531-20140815212156/@comment-5619531-20140815221830

Mystreve wrote: I think this thread, although good-intentioned, is kind of a waste of space. Yeah, there were rollbacks sitting there who just all of the sudden left the site for whatever reasons. Skelly noticed this and demoted them. I'm fine with a bureaucrat using discretion with rollbacks and their rights.

As far as the other rights, that's common sense stuff that's already in the rules. All of the administrative team (to my knowledge) knows that if any of us decide to take time off, to make it known via an announcement. We all do that. Sloshed explained his inactivity with humility and I think he now knows that his active presence is still very much wanted around here. Life gets in the way sometimes. That's how it is. I don't think that constantly focusing on anyone's inactivity is very healthy for a community. We have plenty of help around here who can pick up slack when another falters.

I'm for watching each others' backs. Not stabbing them. I put it there to avoid the reason of users with bureaucrat or rollback rights to think that "Oh hey. I have a right that's not in the inactivity guidelines, so I'm gonna edit whenever I feel like it." That has happened on all of the pasta wikis, and is still currently happening on this wiki and the other pasta wikis.

Yeah, sure, Sloshed promised to edit more. But what about Cleric? Sure, he's the founder of it all, but he hasn't given a reason for his inactivity? Just because you're the founder doesn't mean that you can desert the site for a long period of time, and be exempt from not announcing your inactivity. Time issues can be a habit, but I would still like to see an inactivity notice shown to the community, and not just disappear for long periods of time. Being the founder just means that you have a different tag than the admins, but you still have the same rights as any other bureaucrat. That's why I decided to make this, because bureaucrats and rollbacks on all the pasta wikis take hold of something that they could handle in the past, but currently can't handle due to some unknown reason. This was written during the time Sloshed was inactive.

The site is running along smoothly, and I do agree with that. But think for a moment. If Sloshed hadn't been slapped on the face with the demotion thread, he would never have woken up from it and still be inactive without alerting the community about it. People have a life, but why apply for it when in the near months that you're just going to sit around?