Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-24040319-20140907080203/@comment-957629-20140918132646

Did those communities have a vote where it showed clear support from the majority of the active members that there was an issue of abuse in power? There is no real need to get involved unless this is the case. Fandyllic wrote: Wikia chooses not to intervene probably for cost and staffing reasons. Sannse's blog post was likely an attempt to give an explanation to distract from the real reason. You made the above assertion with what proof and what evidence? You basically stated that Sannse was lying in her blog to distract from a monetary reason.

In the end, staff do not need to get involved in local issues. If a few people get banned from a tiny community then they can go make their own community or talk elsewhere. On larger Wikia there must be agreement and consensus on things and most people contact staff because they got banned. As it is, each community should be allowed to grow on its own and they would not be able to do that if Staff gets involved in every little tiny dispute. The fact remains that disputes happen, in general, they are a fact of life and people get banned from sites all the time. This very rarely happens with no reason be it rule breaking or arguing with the Administrator. There is no need for Staff to hold the hand of every single user on the site.

When you join a site you become aware of people running and maintaining that site and you learn what behavior, actions and attitude they will tolerate and what they will not. Its simple general etiquette to act accordingly. The only real time Staff would need to get involved is if an Admin went haywire and started deleting everything, vandalizing things and banning every user, ToU violations or something else drastic and most of the things like this that get reported are simply not needed to be reported. Most of the issues can be resolved by blocking the violators or users going elsewhere, where your behavior is acceptable or by avoiding the people you are clashing with and possibly even starting your own Wiki if you are discontent with how another Wikia is run.

In the end, Staff doesn't need to get involved with every tiny little squabble, unless things go too far but usually VSTF and Admins are there to stop those. If they spent their days blocking everyone that ever had a disagreement or whoever action'd a block that someone disagreed with then nothing would ever get done in the background or on Wikia itself, everyone would be blocked. And lets be honest, they have much bigger things to do like keeping the servers up and running and solving issues that actually affect the running of Wikia as a whole.