Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24419286-20140320162940

All that seems to have been happening this week (and the weeks before that) has either been the chat shutting down, arguments over petty words, mass deletions, demotions, I can't keep track of all of the things going on right now.

I don't even know why I started this thread but I felt that there really isn't another place to discuss all of this (since this is the General Wiki Discussion.. Made for these sorts of things)

I'll try to get right to the point here, my one complaint is about the admins here. I know the entire point of them is to help the community but it seems every time something happens shit goes down the drain (to be clear I will be focusing on admins in particular, but some of this might apply to moderators or bureaucrats)

For the most part the admins here do their jobs well, banning troublemakers, helping out new users, deleting pasta. But lately there are more and more problems concerning them. For example, the chat has casual discussions, not all are related to the wiki, but almost every time the chat gets into a healthy discussion that's not breaking any rules or causing 'drama' that's either serious or concerning the wiki (which is kind of what the chat was made for; discussing the wiki) the authority stops the conversation immediatly, and when we try to take those discussions to forums where we're supposed to THEY also get deleted.

The other problem is that there are unconfirmed rules. These are rules that the admins and moderators enforce without the rule being approved or actually contained in one of the Rules pages. This is a problem because every time a new user, who has actually read the rules accidentally breaks one gets kicked or banned because of it. We should either wait for these rules to be approved before enforcing them or put them in the rules to be enforced so that users can be aware of them.

Like I was saying before, a lot of the threads that the users make are deleted quickly without being given a chance to be heard out or even considered. Yet when it's discussed anywhere else it is also not allowed. It seems that the less you allow the users to talk about serious site matters the more drama it causes.

That's really all I have to say for now. Hopefully in the future the site will be much better, and we'll get over these dark ages of CPW. 