Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5034072-20141003170224/@comment-25393922-20141003203433

Wolfenmaus wrote: Fatal Disease wrote: Another thing I like to mention is that announcing a group/right without a community/bureaucrat discretion is against your privilege as a user here.

You have a voice on this site, but saying "OH, I'M GONNA ANNOUNCE A GROUP WITHOUT PEOPLE'S VIEW ON IT VIA FORUMS!" is against the rules for you, the user, to make that call. This is a community group, and we already have mods has members. Many of the staff seem to be fine with it.

>implying many of the Staff knew about it

I just now heard of this today, and to me it's a completely unnecessary thing.

If you want to monitor chat and report to mods, good. That's kind of your, uh, you know, duty. What you're supposed to do as a user. There's no need to start a group or have some special badge for it.

I also don't like the idea that we are now for some reason tracking PMs. Per Maria, they're private for a reason. If anything that calls for action goes on in PM, it is the receiving user's responsibility to block them and report their misbehavior to an administrator or chat mod.

There is nothing that this group would be allowed to do that a normal user shouldn't be doing already. And also, "community group" or no, before we decide to start big operations, how about a proposal to make sure everyone actually hears about it?