Board Thread:New Rules and Promotion/@comment-24808864-20160824144840

Hello all, kind of a lengthy forum post coming but it has a proposal for moving into the future.

Near the beginning of the year Tibet had a voting contest to promote chat moderators since chat went through a big bump in usage. Here is the link to that contest and the questionable results that occurred. I encourage everyone to tally up the end results on your own if you are interested!

Immediately after the vote occurred and promotions were made there was a dramatic increase of problems in chat from several sources. The most interesting to me were that I was informed that Chat Mods were not confident enough to use their own judgement in chat, and that users (and even other chat mods) were PMing chat mods to ban people. My personal opinion on the matter is (and always was) that chat mods were elected and therefore trusted to exercise their own judgement but there seemed to be an implication that if a chat mod unnecessarily or incorrectly banned someone that they would be unfairly judged and demoted without discussion. I personally never imagined this would happen, as those that know me know, since I like to talk things out and find compromise if at all possible. It has since occurred to me that this “power imbalance” and feeling like “someone that can punish you looking at everything you are doing” might have been the source of apprehension towards using these abilities to protect the community.

Now as everyone can tell, each person has their own identity and we come together to make this group here on the KA wiki. You know and have met Virus, TJ, myself and Tibet (who has since left the community). We were all different, but equal, and came together to try to shape the community. However, we were only 4 (and now 3) voices.

Therefore, I propose a change in “leadership.” I would like to set up a governing council of equally ranked individuals that are willing to work together for the betterment and safety of the community. Members of this council would be taken from members of the community that have been here and active long-term and thus have equity in the community. I think it is important to have an odd number of members (for tie-breaking) and more admins than Bcrats (so that admins may “out-vote” Bcrats if abuse of power occurs). I would thus propose that the new leadership team consist of the following members:

1)      1)  Balu (Admin)

2)     2)   BlazeP (Admin-has been inactive over a month since 7/16)

3)      3)  Eytukan (Admin)

4)      4)  LR (Admin)

5)      5)  TJ (Bcrat)

6)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"TimesNewRoman";">      6)  Trek (Admin)

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpMiddle" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1">7)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"TimesNewRoman";">      7)  Virus (Bcrat)

<p class="MsoListParagraphCxSpLast" style="text-indent:-.25in;mso-list:l0level1lfo1">8)<span style="font-variant-numeric:normal;font-weight:normal;font-stretch:normal;font-size:7pt;line-height:normal;font-family:"TimesNewRoman";">      8)  Myself-HM (Bcrat)

<p class="MsoNormal">I am putting out eight names because those proposed would have to be willing to accept this position and it is not a trivial position. There is a critical condition that would need to be satisfied also. That condition is that leadership member of our wiki, the KAwiki, must NOT respond to lies that are spread about us elsewhere. It is difficult to keep a cool head when people say false things, but I feel like our current admins (Virus and TJ especially) have done an amazing job with this. I have personally tried to smooth previous conflicts with interested members, but I shall not be doing that on Wikia ever again because of the ability of some people to twist those actions. If you agree to be part of the leadership council, you will need to agree to just take the higher road and ignore any accusations against the wiki or other members of the council. If any potential members of the council would like to see some of the attacks that I have had to ignore over the past 6 months I am willing to link you to them directly, but will only do so through PM so that they can stay private. My links are not to screenshots that can be doctored or emails that can be faked. They are only to lies on other wikia that people have said specifically about me as can be verified in the history of those pages on those respective wikia.

<p class="MsoNormal">Into the future, if a member needs to leave the council, we could try out new members for the council by promoting them first to Chat Moderators for a trial period to see how they deal with the extra abilities afforded there, and then after some amount of time, bring them into the council.

<p class="MsoNormal">OK, I think that is long enough to float my idea in front of the community anyway! Please post below with comments or concerns. If you are one of the proposed members of the council, please tell me if you would even be willing to be a member of the council. You would need to read and KNOW our Local Wiki General Rules and Wikia TOU and be willing to agree to them (of course) but also agree to the additional condition above. If you aren’t willing to commit to such a thing (especially with school starting (me too)) that is not a problem either. Just let me know here. You will not be demoted or anything and can just keep your previous position.

<p class="MsoNormal">Thank you for letting me be part of this wonderful community! <ac_metadata title="Proposal for new leadership council, just a proposal, needs discussion and time" notify_everyone="1472050120"> </ac_metadata>