User blog comment:Xean/What Works for Your Wiki?/@comment-3185615-20110525214830

Over at the creepypasta wiki we give registered users a warning about trolling/drama. Then give more harsh punishments each incident. IPs don't get the warning and their punishments are more harsh. On the subject of blanking or plagiarism registered users get a month minimum(for one case) then infinite bans then infinite for any incident past the first one (including multiple claims at the same time). You have to be registered to claim credit for the story. We rely on word of mouth for getting new contributors mostly through the /x/ board on 4 chan by posting our pastas in the creepypasta threads. We advertise some of our better fiction with a creepypasta of the month feature, any registered user may suggest a story but the ultimate choice is up to a vote among our admins. We're working on cleaning up some of the mess that was created during initial startup mostly due to what we call pointsgaming or making edits strictly for the achievements. Pointsgaming is such a problem amongst our userbase we've had to create punishments for nonsensical or worthless edits such as creating new categories just to get the edits. Users will get warnings and bans depending on the severity and length of cleanup. We try to give users the benefit of the doubt and will usually ask for justification on the user's talk page for why they did what they did. Speaking of which talk pages are invaluable for us. We try to keep one conversation on one talk page. Us admins also are ALWAYS open to worthwhile suggestions. One thing that keeps getting brought up is a rating system that anybody can vote on such as stars or something. If anybody knows how we can implement one where every user can vote once that would be greatly Appreciated. Our admins have a specific area of concentration, myself I'm in charge of making sure the wiki stays clean. Bennasty deals with the trolls/drama and clericofmadness is the creator and head admin, and does a little of both. Our new guy weirdozzy is yet to be make it through his probation period and will be assigned a major function when he makes it through. However, just because it isn't in our lane doesn't mean we can't correct something we find wrong. All admin decisions may be brought to the specific admin or cleric for an appeal however us underlings cannot undo a decision made by each other or cleric. All admin email addresses are on our user pages in case somebody has a problem or a question that they don't want public. Other than that we play a lot of things by ear and it works alright. I won't say it's a perfect system but it works pretty well. If I didn't answer a specific question feel free to ask me in a reply to this comment. Thank you for your time.