Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-15215573-20160104051151/@comment-6011345-20160104110956

I don't know the story between this, and I don't know if you've discussed it with other the other admins or Blake himself. But I've heard zero talk of this before so this came sort of as a surprise. Which is sort of my problem. You seem to often make desicions without talking to the other admins or even the other bureaucrats. Power is meant to be shared, not pulled by each and every person in every direction. Though I do think it's good that you're taking it up with the community, but from the /r's upwards, I don't think it would be right to deadmin Blake.

This wiki has 6 admins, and Blake is only one of them. Also, this is pretty much a community-exclusive wiki. What I mean by that is that it's an RP wiki, so most people who come here to edit do so with intensions of creating characters and stories. Very few only come here to chat, or just to edit excisting pages, or to troll. For a wiki this active, there are extremely few trolls and problems in general.

This leaves the admins with not a lot of problems to solve and a lot of nitpicking to do. What is left to do is cosmetic changes, interactive events for people to join or clean-up. Most of my edits are categorization, clean-up or creating categories for people. So really, dismissing and rejecting an admin (Blake) simply because they don't do a lot of editing is weird. Because Blake is very active on chat and he has a great relationship with everyone on the wiki. I think he is a great admin, and to deadmin him simply because he does not edit as much or code the wiki all the time is not very helpful.

I'm sure Billie would be a great admin, but this whole thing seems pointless. I feel like you're doing this simply because you want to. I'm sure you don't, because I trust your desicions, but it is still a concern I have. With 5 other very active admins in the staff as well, why would this be such a big problem? There are next to no real pressing matters for this wiki to take care of, all of it is just cleaning up old, dead pages. The pages aren't going anywhere, so deadmining Blake cause he's not helping with them is just a waste of time.

I think Blake can take this as a wake-up call. Even though I don't see a problem with him not editing as much as the others, I can understand why others would. So I would encourage Blake to start cleaning up too, but I don't think we should deadmin him. Maybe later on if this issue is brought up again.

Nay.