Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-896291-20150425211624

I ran into a serious problem with one of the contributors at the The Fast and the Furious Wiki. Yesterday, we had this conversation on the inactive Admin's message wall about improving the Wikia because this place is in a state of a mess, and I went on about how the appearance of the wiki could be improved, but eventually got no response.

Considering that said user was not an admin, I decided to go ahead and attempt to modify one of the templates on the wiki and the user decides it's a bright idea, after bemoaning the fact that they hated it when people reverted their edits, to undo what I was currently in the process of trying to improve (especially after finding out there was a official movie guide book to work off of), because I "broke" the template.

And I told them I was trying to stream line the wiki's template by making it look similar to the to the character infobox, but he repeatedly reverted my attempts and I got annoyed. I told fixing the infobox was as simple as modifying the html code (capitalizing the keywords used in the template), but they dodged these comments completely. This makes me believe the user doesn't know anything about tweaking html code (not that I'm a super expert myself).

Eventually I got frustrated and just bowed out, but not before making it perfectly clear that he wasn't an admin and that his behavior was pretty rude.

The whole conversation is here, including the one had yesterday, but I honestly don't think I'll go back until I know the admin will be active again, considering the staff doesn't deal with issues like this at all unless there's a violation of TOS, which is just frustrating.

The worst part is that the user has been active enough that they can ask for admin rights themselves, which would be a nightmare as far as I'm concerned. 