Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-24040319-20140907080203/@comment-25156829-20140923233246

Dartmaster8 wrote: 6Lorde6 wrote: Gp75motorsports wrote:

6Lorde6 wrote:

Dartmaster8 wrote: while its great to have written rules, there are times when its obvious that action should be taken rather than not when local staff are violating the normal of how they should be acting and treating others. Their job is keep the wiki clean of vandals, spammers and disruptive users and to follow community agreed upon rules. If they are incapable of doing any of the above, then they need to go. Not to be disrespectful but that is a good general rule to use.

I have seen people posting on central over actual admin abuse and they were not willing to go post on the original wiki for fear of an unacceptable block. These are power hungry admins and should be removed.

to those that say to move on, that only speeds up the creation of more and more useless wikis that die off and become a burden to people searching for the most complete wiki. Not counting foreign languages and fan fiction, there are over 200 spongebob wikis along with other topics that have a lot as well. While its not a big deal in terms of servers, again its burden some to those that are looking for a reliable source. More pages doesn't always become better than less but gives an impression of a false search result. Wikia also places the higher page counts on the first page of results.

tl;dr: power abuse shouldn't be left in place, moving on isn't always the best option Yep. Power abuse is sometimes serious, sometimes not so serious. The thing is, if something happens to the "dictator," the entire wiki is frelled. No matter how you look at it, having one person who dicatates everything puts the wiki in danger. There are wikis out there that have disappeared into the void because their dictator left. Yes, I see how dictatorship is a major issue. Dictatorship IS what can ruin the wiki. However (and I'm just throwing this out there) there are many wikis that could build themselves back together after dictatorship. It all depends on a strongly structured team to build a wiki back together after power abuse. well first you have to remove the "dictator" which sometimes is close to impossible then what do you do? most of the time people start over and eventually it blows up to hundreds of wikis on the same topic, not very beneficial...a split community compared to a united community Restarting is a bad choice. They should just work on the original wiki. I know it's hard, but it's the best choice.