Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5790218-20160211203109

This is something I really want to bring up since my come back. It's about the wiki situation.

We're in a yellow zone if the subject is fights, drama or any kind of problems with user since Jack's promotion as head. We may be "chilled" but still have constant problems with this and it's not only me but others who fight for dumb reasons as well. This is a thing that need to be solved and it's Boog's job. I can't stand any fight here anymore.

Other major problem is that the wiki is, with all sincerity, awful. Trigger me, but the wiki is a complete mess and we don't even have actual rules for the OC creation and most of them are just general rules, that aren't even enforced properly. And let me emphasize the rule "Don't kill other users to get Senpai", is this even serious? The rules page should be taken serious and it's a official wiki document that should be humorless and straight to the point, the existence of this "rule" totally ruins this page and makes it another normal page who users and even staff treat like shit and only enforce when they really hate someone.

The Head Admin power isn't really used for good and everything Boog said about he being equal to others and a normal user is totally trashed by his status as a "head" and the big power he has over everyone. Proved by him alone creating all the staff requirements alone and without even bothering to make a vote or a debate about it.

Since the creation of this new democracy, there was no big changes on the new users treatment and no help pages being updated/made or anything like this, they're just thrown at the wiki and users who aren't even related to staff need to help them step by step, doing a chore that could be easily replaced with new infrastructure would easily handle, but we don't have any. Nobody really see big head Jack helping new users in the chat and/or at least changing the welcome message to implement some (currently not existing) tutorials and helpful links that would guide them. At least, friendly talk with them should be enough, but he proves it to be the adverse contrary of it and he isn't above insulting other grammar mistakes, I say this by own experience, as he insulted my English two times because I said "unanymous" and "ideia", things that I am used to say due to my native language. Aside from that, he don't even try to interact with new users and leave all the job to people who aren't even assigned to do this.

As far from some small changes, you can clearly see that the Head Admin idea is just a bad idea and wasn't really something that helped the wiki to grow, breaking the expectancy of many who awaited for something big to happen. I, myself, even tried to believe the new wiki was a success and was really jealous about it, but the day I finally accepted this could be good and came back I just noticed how it was a disaster.

''So, whatever? What's the BIG VOTE? I don't have all the day.'' You might be asking yourself, and there it is:

A Council. Yes, that's it, this could be really the bandage to our injuries. A thing that can finally help this wiki to move into the good direction. Here are the reasons a Council can finally solve the Head Admin problems and extra features it could bring:

Councils aren't just one person, instead, it's a whole team. When fights or drama happen, they're for sure the perfect ones to solve it. By solving the situation using logic and with a real judgment, the council could really come to be a helpful asset into solving a feud or punishing the ones who really break the rules. This is if, any wiki drama is created, as most of the problems will be resolved in a pacific approach.

With a council working on something, they give/work on tasks that they're really talented at. Each council member could really give focus on a selected part of the wiki and bring in the staff and talented users to help them with, successfully making the wiki evolve without feuds and really fast and neatly. Obviously, if everyone on the wiki dislikes how something is being worked on or how it is being developed, a vote could be made to stop and redo everything once again in a better way, so the wiki could be perfect to everyone.

The council may be seem as the "big guys" who "hold all the power in they evil hands of greed" but they, if implemented, will be totally changed to satisfy the wiki needs and majority of the users wish. Every week/month a debate will be open up so users can leave they critics about each council member and express they opinion openly without nobody to harass them. This could lead some members who truly are corrupt to be kicked out. The users and the council would be in perfect sync and the users will have the voice they really need in the current democracy.

This is the subject I really want to focus on, helping the newbies. This would be a big focus on the council and one of the major projects that they would hold in they hands. They would do everything needed to make this a good place for people who are just passing by or checking, so they could think into joining and our community would grow a lot. They would change welcome message, the message on the right of the recent wiki activity and a lot more. Doing tutorials to teach the newbies and the older ones to do everything they need to stay fine and without help on the wiki and following all the rules, who would be enforced.

Council would make really great changes and this wiki would be perfect for everyone, the staff, the normal users, the newbies and others. The changes would be purely beneficial. When voting on this topic, please read this over and over so you can really know what you're supporting or opposing, think wisely and do what you heart want, present a actual reason for any vote or else they will be deleted without pity. The vote is more like a debate as well and it will only end when it reaches a consensus.

'''Thank you for reading. Vote wisely.''' 