Thread:Angry Hearts/@comment-6268337-20181214074545

AH:

I hope all is going well for you at school. I'm sure you're busy getting the hang of college life (I'm seeing it here myself).

We have been recently targeted by a troll farm, a bunch of people getting together and spamming really nasty images, moving pages to sites outside of the wikia, renaming pages to vulgar stuff, etc. We have since added a lot more protections with help from Fandom Staff that now blocks "new editors" from adding pictures. I have also added more abuse filters to our site which I hope will catch and block more of these idiots.

Beyond that, I thought heading into 2019 that we should add more to staff. Daniel and Plaxton have done excellent jobs as admins this past year. SpringVanillaRose has come back and has been a big help once again as an admin. But I feel we need at least one admin that resides in the Eastern Hemisphere, someone who is able to keep an eye on things while the rest of us (Daniel, Plaxton, SVR, and myself) are not really able to keep an eye during the day.

That said, I am considering giving Runepatriarch and I Am MonkeyBoy promotions from mods to admins. Rune lives somewhere in Europe, and has been really helpful undoing the edits from trolls when we're not around. I think it would help if he is able to block vandals. IAMB has been helpful to Daniel and Plaxton as well. To be fair, I am giving both Rune and IAMB 90-day trial periods similar to when I picked Daniel and Plaxton. I think they will do a good job.

To replace the two guys I want to promote, I have offered a moderator position to Skyline97 and am planning on offering the same to RedRubyTwilight and JK55556. I haven't asked either yet, but plan on doing so soon.

Admittedly, it has been really stressful handling all of the trolls and vandals. It seems like we're picked on because the FSW is ranked among the top 300 in all of Fandom/Wikia. I'm sure there are other reasons. But I am hoping that adding more to staff, heading into next year, will help.

Let me know what you think. If I don't hear from you, have a Merry Christmas. Keep up with the studies, and have a great 2019.

Sincerely,

Bdj610 