Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-24947676-20170717230517

Okay so, y'all know how Rollbacks and Content Mods have jobs that specifically involve editing pages, and how Mini-Admins and Admins inherit those jobs as well?

Well they can't really do their jobs properly if they're not allowed to edit a page just because the creator of the page didn't want 'em too, can they?

So, they should be exempt from the request.

'''You, maybe: But Crystal! I often leave my pages in edit mode for long periods of time, so staff editing without telling me creates an edit conflict which causes me to lose my progress!'''

Well, here's a step-by-step program to help you keep your progress even with the potential edit conflict, before the conflict happens! Before you click the "Confirm" button, you should do the following.
 * 1) Go to google docs in a new tab.
 * 2) Create a blank project, or something like that.
 * 3) Return to your page and copy the new content.
 * 4) Paste the new content in your doc.

Voila! Now you still have your new progress, which you can paste from the document into the page if an edit conflict happens!

You, maybe: But I don't want to use google docs!

Well guess what? When an edit conflict happens, the edit conflict box thing allows you to copy your previous changes! I don't know exactly how it works since I never tried it because I never needed to, but there's that.

You, maybe: But I don't want to deal with edit conflicts altogether!

Well, perhaps you shouldn't leave your shit in edit mode for twelve hours. What if wikia times out? What if you're doing multiple shit in one browser to the point where it crashes? What if the internet goes down while you're editing? There's a lot more things to worry about than edit conflicts when you leave your shit in edit mode for twelve hours.

So, you should publish your edit every 15-30 minutes, just to be on the safe side.

You, maybe: But I wanna make sure I get EVERYTHING I want to add at once so that I don't flood the activity!

The 15-30 minute window is long enough to prevent flooding, and even if you aren't satisfied with the progress you've made in that time... Edit mode ain't gonna disappear any time soon. Don't worry about it.

You, maybe: But I get anxiety when people edit my stuff!

Well, I don't have a solution to that, however, that's not much of an excuse to prevent the staff from doing their job. Especially since damn-near every wiki except this one doesn't allow people to form an angry mob over staff doing their job, so why should you be allowed to form an angry mob when nobody else will? Don't form an angry mob over lost progress when it's very easy to prevent your progress from being lost.

'''You, maybe: What if the staff vandalize? They might get away with it because they're staff!'''

Remember the recent demotion drama from like a week ago? It's quite clear that everyone, including staff, is on one of two sides. I don't quite know how to word this, but if a staff member on one side is breaking rules, there's a guarantee that a staff member on the other side will catch the abusing staff member and react accordingly. We as a community have voted for a decent variety of mindsets, to the point where we might as well have some sort of political party system or something dumb like that. Point is, "what if a staff member vandalizes my pages and gets away with it" is not an issue.

So, now that we've covered everything in this wonderful essay which I am very proud of, I request that you provide reasons for your vote if you are voting oppose or neutral. Why aren't I asking reasons from supporters? Well, they don't need to provide reasons because it's obvious why they support. And I wrote an essay on why they should support. And why am I putting QualVotes everywhere? Well, this suggestion is so long that they NEED to be everywhere.

Anyway, happy voting, and regardless of your vote, I hope you have a nice morning/afternoon/evening!

 