Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24573226-20171007211457/@comment-25936766-20171007214041

HazelQuill7445 wrote:

The general consensus was that there should be at least two for a wiki this active so that there is more than one person to turn to when stuff requiring a crat, like role-assigning, is needed.

It also brought up another topic, Sgt D Grif’s general absence and inactivity with the wiki. Phantomlink959 is drafting up a denomination, which will go into detail for his personal reasons for thinking Grif should no longer be ‘crat.

These are your administrators:

ChishioKunrin

General Esdeath

HazelQuill7445

Lauren Darkmore

Minomelo So, we'll have to choose 2 between 3 ladies, 1 lad, and a melon, to be the new Bureucracy?

The question here is, what values are looked for and prefered in a Bureucrat? And who have those values the most?

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As for absence and inactivity.......it needs to be clarified.

I mean, just because they don't interact too much, it doesn't mean they aren't there, watching.

At the same time, it should be noted that the things a bureaucrat could do, for the most part can be done by admins or mods. A guy could come and vandalize an article, and before the Bureucrat can try to fix it, an admin already did.

This is especially the case when there's like a dozen or 2 members on staff, including Rollbacks, Mods, and Content Mods. It's like having 20 police officers in a single room.

Sure, a Bureaucrat could step in and fix the problem, but the fact is that multiple members on staff do act quickly and fix the problem before the rest could. If an officer already arrested the perpetrator, why should the other 19 officers rush to catch them too?

Of course, one could also argue that this promotes lazyness. The Bureaucrat has no need to step in because his 20+ fellow staff members already do. On the other hand, there's also the matter of Impression; see, let's say you made a harmless edit trying to help, but it went against the guidelines and was removed.

Imagine if you were suddenly "confronted" by the Big Boss of the Wiki for it instead of just an admin or mod. It would be a bit more "scary", no? It'd be like being confronted by the governor themself. That could cause a bit more panic than necesary.

Just my 2 cents.