Board Thread:Administration/@comment-2240864-20160401215247

A wise man once told me it's better to start something at the beginning of a month, and so here we are. The b-crats, admins, and I have all been discussing a lot of pressing issues with stories and how frequent the deletions of new stories have been and the vocal objections to some older stories, much in the same vein as the now-deleted Jeff the Killer or Sonic.exe.

A huge problem on this site is the attempts by our team to control the quality of incoming stories. However, we are a small group of people controlling a large influx of stories, and our tastes might not be as refined as everyone elses'. We removed the Flagged for Deletion polls years ago due to the ability of the polling systems to be abused. Since then, though, it has largely been up to the admin team to delete stories, or the rollbackers to mark possible offenders.

We are a community here on Wikia, and as such, I have been fighting for your rights to have a voice in this deletion process.

Beginning tomorrow, stories will no longer be deleted from this site based on quality control standards. Instead, ALL stories, both new and the very old, will be subject to deletion based on popularity polls that will be posted on the physical talk pages of all stories (Example: Talk:BEN Drowned), something we haven't used in years since we activated article comments. All stories will have links at the bottom of the story pointing users and readers to the talk page, and thus the poll therein.

I would like to personally thank EmpyrealInvective for hand-coding a much more secure poll format that is both free from the abuse of the former Wikia polls and easy to put into a template that, with a few keystrokes, can be effortlessly put on pages via our bot.

I would also like to thank SnuffBomb for supplying a nice blog post that highlighted the discord in our userbase, and the need for a broader standard of deciding what is and is not deleted from the site. It has since been removed from the site, however. 