Board Thread:The Official Announcement Board/@comment-3030647-20170302213843/@comment-18812574-20170303030532

Alright so basically this:



*ahem*

Anyway, I would say that I don't really care about the trajectory or the quality of the wiki, but then, I do care, since I'm here a lot. But let me ask you guys this question: Is deleting spam an infringement of so-called "creative freedom?" If that idea bothers you, we can come to a mutually agreed upon definition of what "spam" is. (Oh, that definition, btw, is called the freakin' Manual of Style, maybe you should you know, keep it handy for reference, at least read it once, I don't know. Something about wiki POLICY and so-forth...). After all, this is a community, which means members contribute. The admins don't have to arbitrarily decide this for you. Basically just ask yourself: "What kind of eye-sores would I be happy to see removed from the wiki's activity thread?"

That's not being elitist. It's called being practical. If every "Harry Hard-luck and Sally Sob-story" comes in here, makes whatever page of whatever sort of character they want and there is no monitoring whatsoever, then the users who DO put effort into their articles will become disinterested in maintaining that level of quality. Why? Because, my friends, allowing spam to clutter the feed sends the message that no one here gives a shit about effort and/or quality. That's a problem because, while new users might be active in a revolving-door sense, it will eventually lead to a decreased interest in the wiki as a whole.

And yeah, we're seeing that right now, actually.

Another point: Would you guys stop getting your respective panties in a wad about "creative freedom." I hate to break the news to you, but get this. Don't miss it: this is a FANON wiki, meaning we are all writing for a series we DON'T OWN and CAN'T CLAIM in any real meaningful legal sense. So creative freedom? Yeah you don't actually have that. It's a privilege, not a right, because this is fanon. That said, how would YOU feel if some new-ass user came along and copy-pasted sections of your page on their own article? Yeah. Not good. So while we don't hold much legal water here as far as rights and so-forth goes, as a collective community as a whole, there are measures that can indeed be taken in order to preserve the arbitrary (because yes they are arbitrary) "rights" that are allowed members. What sort of rights are we talking here? How about, "The right to create one's own articles without being harassed by plagiarists" or, "the right to RP with a character who isn't at Super Saiyan x9000 power level."

While there is a line between laissez-faire style policy and complete anarchy, it's not as fine as you might think. You want to know where freedom exists? It exists when each person, as Serk says, takes up individual responsibility for their own actions. Minimal rules are definitely a plus, but rules themselves exist for a reason: mainly to ensure that EACH member of the wiki has the same amount of "operating space" when it comes to "creative freedom" that everyone else has. Take away the rules, and you take away the operating space.

To answer Ash's original question, what I want to see from the adminship is maybe a, hmm, dare I say it, change up perhaps? There are several dedicated members of this site who would be good in a leadership position. I think around a year ago we wanted to elect several new people to the position of admin, but only one was in the end (that being Nari). BUT new faces in the adminship is only gonna make a dent when you guys work together as a team to delegate tasks. Honestly there shouldn't be that much to do if you split up everything between five or so people. On BFF we have committees: why can't there be the same thing here? One guy in charge of the welcome committee, one guy in charge of the Hunter-nin, one guy in charge of UPDATING THE MOS (*ahem*), etc.

Speaking of the Hunter-nin, I am 100% behind Solo's idea. Sure it has its holes, but the means of fixing those holes are to get dedicated users in the leadership and then delegate tasks: first among the admins themselves, and then to the rest of NF's members. That takes the burden off of say, Ash's shoulders, or Nari's shoulders, or any one admin's shoulders, and allows everyone to take up a bit more responsibility when it comes to wiki-management.

If you want creative freedom, then you have to be actually willing to you know, chip in and contribute something worth-while as opposed to whining about someone who slaps your hand for unoriginality, over the top OPness, and plagiarism. There need to be rules. Minimal is a plus. And, (*shocker*), those rules apply to everyone, not just the n00bs.