Board Thread:Suggestions/@comment-8846246-20160419193334/@comment-8846246-20160419223617

"Tell me how making it harder and longer for someone to be promoted, is going to help with the issue of positions being understaffed?"

Many of our spots are empty, but we aren't understaffed. If people wanted to help run chat, instead of trying to get us to have more spots in Chat Mods, perhaps the people who want to be Chat Mod should consider Discussion Mod instead.

"What happens if lower positions get clogged and no one in them wants to move up?"

Does that matter? Not really, matters a little. But say all the chat mods were full, like they are now, the chat would have all the people it needs with those 4 and any in higher ranks. The Helpers is supposed to help with this by offering a quicker fill anytime someone ranks up out of Rollback or Chat Mod. So the rank would almost always be full.

"How long will we be understaffed?"

No-one knows that, but we aren't really understaffed. 13/25 spots are currently filled. With this it would be 13/33. Either way, we do and would have enough spots filled. Many large wikia's, such as the FNAF wikia have less staff than us with 4 and they don't seem to be having too many problems with staff. In-fact with only 3 the canon wiki works fine and it has more people. I wouldn't even consider that wiki understaffed.

"What if someone in a position leaves or is demoted? How long will it take to replace them?"

That's simple, you just wait until someone applies. If it's a helper, then you wait for a normal user. If it's a chat mod you'd wait for a helper.

"To put this into simpler terms, if we can't fill our current staff positions, what's the point in adding more as well as making them harder to get into?"

A full staff isn't as important as a qualified staff. Making it harder is a step towards making sure staff is more qualified.

"If people aren't scared or turned away from applying, then why are they not applying?"

Likely because they wanted to become Admin or Mini-Admin and now they have to go through a process. If they only wanted that, they probably weren't fit for the position.

"it's impossible for you to see chat w/o a mod because you are one."

I can see if there isn't or is one by looking at chat while not in it. I've almost never seen it modless. Usually see at-least one or two.

"I want to hear the current number."

We have 13 current members of staff. 9 capable of maintaining chat and 9 capable of the wiki itself. That's not understaffed in my opinion. I don't refuse to talk about, just had no reason to since people could just count it themselves.

1) The only people that it turns away clearly weren't devoted enough to the wiki. Staff should be devoted enough to go through all those ranks to reach what they want.

3) So when they do get filled the people in them are more qualified and know what they're doing.

4) I can't speak for the other staff, but I do many things. I suggest all the time and enforce our rules whenever I see them broken. Also, this thread is supposed to help prevent lazy and bad staff.