Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-233706-20150624014033/@comment-452-20150627111628

I'm not aware of there being any rules governing Wikia Staff. (I suspect, but have no proof, that the TOU doesn't even apply to them, given the fact that they're free to ignore the "obstruct the proper functioning of the user interface" line when it comes to blogs which haven't been commented on in 30 days.)

Wikia Staff not jumping into every dispute has nothing to do with rules, and they still choose to get involved when they want to.

"These are all situations that Wikia staff have been asked to jump in and sort out. And they are all situations where we have declined to do so, and pointed straight back at the community.

So why do we so often refuse to get involved? That's where that balance comes in. If we were too keen to take over when things got messy, then we would no longer have a group of community and admin-run wikias, we would have wikias solely run the way staff think they should be. It would also mean we would have staff who do nothing but intervene in disputes. We have to resist that, so that we can get other things done!

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But of course, there are still times when we do get involved. In general, staff are most likely to intervene in situations that involve the Wikia Terms of Use or are otherwise very serious. We may also get involved if a dispute is affecting other communities, or a project or promotion that's going on. And sometimes we may get involved simply because we believe that would be the best thing to do in that specific situation - every case is different, but our main goal is always to do what is best for the health of the individual community, and for Wikia as a whole."

- User_blog:Sannse/Why_staff_don%27t_remove_bad_admins