Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-33668185-20181229231243/@comment-25583733-20181230173928

I would also like to add that this isn't a one-off thing. It's not that moderators or administrators occasionally lose their patience, or sometimes respond to trolls, and then the community jumps at your throat. Just...please don't try to play the victim by making the community out to be a bunch of negative, unappreciative people for trying to offer feedback.

Growing up, we have been given feedback and ways to improve by teachers, guardians, and friends. They did it because they wanted us to grow and become better people, and I sincerely doubt you treated them like people who were just out to get you. So why is this so much different? How many personal attacks or rule violations can you find in this thread that makes you so averse to it?

Granted, this certainly isn't a positive thread, but I cannot see how it can be one. If we are criticizing and providing feedback for the moderator team in regards do what we think they are doing wrong, how can it be positive? Negative actions aren't met with positive gestures. We certainly aren't going to thank the staff for feeding trolls. Of course, I don't believe this thread is very negative either, as others have mentioned above. If we lost hope in the moderator team we wouldn't even bother trying to provide feedback, so I believe that the staff team should be more thankful that there are people willing to help other people improve, instead of being impatience just because they are the ones being targeted.

I understand the stress of moderating, as an administrator myself on a wiki with thousands of users and pages. I know for a fact that there's at least one user here who is an administrator on a large wiki with many issues, but they are still able to provide civil feedback, aren't they? The rules and regulations here must have been created with a lot of prior discussion between FANDOM Staff, meaning that everyone is expected to follow them on every occasion. If you try to say that the moderators will inevitably break the rules because they are stressed, they need to be warned just like normal users. If the moderators, the users entrusted with protecting the chat environment by staff themselves, are seen to be breaking rules, how are you going to expect normal users to follow the rules? Aren't we looking up to them because they are so trusted? If they break rules are get off scot-free for it, how can you set a good example for users without rights, who are punished for their actions instead?

In my years of visiting Community Central Chat, I find that a majority of the administration are actually weary and negative- more so than the users providing feedback here, I might add. Please, consider this: Is it really a coincidence that so many users, without a ban or block history, are all speaking out and claiming that the administration have a poor attitude towards those who aren't their friends?

Some of us have a completely clean history without even a warning on our message walls, so the claim that we are upset because the administration took action against us falls apart pretty quickly. Since I don't want to end up sounding like a broken record I'll just leave the feedback here, unless something else comes up that I want to respond to.

As for positive comments, I will say that I am appreciative of the administration and staff's attempts to reassure us and tell us that they are taking feedback into consideration. I sincerely so hope that that is the case, and I suppose that only time will tell?