Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-32094204-20180126172747/@comment-32935159-20180616201733

By Merriam-Webster, "Staff" is "a long stick carried in the hand for support in walking." I think some wikis use "staff "as a sort-of joke because they have the authority to use the "ban stick" and block users.

Personally, I don't like using the word "staff" on Wikia because of the confusion it can cause between paid Wikia Staff and Admins of a particular subsite who aren't paid (at least I never got a check).