Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-33029135-20191009155710/@comment-1807002-20191010051651

Newt Strike wrote: Honestly, I feel the community Central should have a "complaint thread" for users to make any complaint about anything. And atleast one staff dedicated to look after them. It would bring transparency in the wikis. Also, it's usually been said that noone owns a wiki but the irony is an admin/bureaucrat does in many ways owns a wiki that is they can block people for whatever reason please them, can be rude and disrespectful to users without anyone raising a single Question on their own behavior while they would continue to Question others behaviour and blocking them for the purpose. I have seen admins blocking people with more than 20,000 edits which is kind of sad as how their efforts didn't gain anything except for a block just for raising their opinion and trying to do something which they thought were good for the community. But I guess, the end decision always lies in the hands of an admin and thus the key and ownership of a wiki. They do anything they want because they know there is noone to question their behaviours and ofcourse, they always tend to build a fair relationship with other admins so that they would support them at every moment. In short, you cannot take any step against an abusing admin, mate. However rude they are it should be always you who need to apologise and move forward. Noone can do anything about it. I think one reason staff/admins don't get involved is because in countless cases neither party is a peach or worse it is multiple petty indifference's that is more heated conflict and not rude/incivility. I, myself have had my share of clashes where I am not completely innocent and may even over reacted to what I considered rude but other's did not consider rude.

I remember one wiki I helped I did major updating in navigation boxes, infobox migration and css design style vastly improving the wiki as a whole with over 3k edits in a month or two. However, with one admin it was like pulling teeth each improvement I tried to make or suggest (I had to go over their head to the bureaucrat almost every time to get results) and by the end I just left (with regular editors sad to see me leave). I never went back but I see them often complained about in community central (even years later) but technically they weren't horribly rude just- slightly rude.

But this also makes me wonder if this is why wikis have low editor count- how many times do you think people just walked away from all wikis cause one bad admin ruined the wiki experience. But even when I tried to be 'fair' or follow 'consensus rule' I have had people hate me as an admin because they didn't get their way on something.