Thread:Badassmcawsome/@comment-7676619-20150428230928/@comment-24087318-20150429034601

Hey! Preda didn't edit that one so it wasn't addressing me out of some petty sense of I must have REALLY upset her for some reason! Neat-o!

Grif, and I'll keep in mind that this is a "Legitimate Criticism" of which Lauren Darkmoor has told me is completely okay to make.

You've already shown yourself to have made a hipocritical statement from your first paragraph, and let me show you why.

See, you've said that "we're upfront with that and the rest of how we operate" with "We" referring to the Staff of the RWBY Wikia.

That being said, when you were asked, several weeks ago, for more clarity, and to be upfront with your *specific* reasonings as to why you, and your Staff of Peers, chose to break off ties with the RWBY Fanon Wikia, you only replied with blanket statements that said the exact opposite, that you're not inclined to tell specifics, and that you would choose to not be upfront on the matter; keeping you, and your peers, specific reasonings, arguements and points that lead to the outcome private and hidden.

I believe Amet, and Hype, as well as a few others, all asked more than "Reasonable", polite, and curteous questions regarding your exact reasons for the removal. And given your statement just now about how you, and your Staff of the RWBY Wikia all prefer to be Upfront with how you all operate, would that not mean you'd be more than happy to be upfront with the gentlemen that asked about that matter?

Please, and I remind you that I am simply being polite, and offering legitimate criticisms to your statements, do not make a false claim that you do not and have not followed through with in the past, present, and future.

Furthermore, Staff members, surprisingly, typically don't have a lot of the freedoms of the Userbase they front. A Staff Member should treat their position as a job, and while this job is quite volunteer and unpaid, it still requires that the Staff member act as a beacon of the community, and a paragon of its rules and ideology.

Staff Members whom, especially when their duty is to a Chatroom, block other users on chat, bait them into posting derogatory comments by asking questions and showing interest, or even going so far as to egg them into doing so angrily. Staff Members whom shut down conversations simply because they personally do not like the subject, while the users participating are not arguing and the topic itself is actually quite safe sane and consentual, do not show this level of professionalism.

As a once-Staff Member of the RWBY Fanon Wikia, I helped to personify this outlook. When things got in the way and I no longer could, I stepped down willingly.

This is the sort of thing that exemplifies a perfect Staff member. Somebody who does their job, removes themselves from any and all bias on the users they are meant to be a paragon of, and in the event they become human and cannot do this, they remove themselves. Be it from the situation, or their power and position.

There has been many cases of the RWBY Wikia having Staff that do not exemplify this idea...or should I mention one promotion whom literally banned people for shipping, or being homosexual?

It seems that several of your users simply cannot do this currently as well, flaming users in PMs. Expressing extreme dislike of people openly, and showing other extremely antisocial and unbecoming behavior.

Are these the examples you truly want to give to member who join this Wikia and enter its chat? That their favorite hobbies are taboo because the Administration doesn't like them? That their friends are literally the Devil and Hitler's gay-baby and are nothing but cruel manipulators? And hearing these things from your *Staff* of all people? People who should always be polite and curteous and act as a beacon, not like the kids who sit outside a school, smoke pot and tell people to stop taking about a subject or get banned if they like things they don't?

I don't think so. At all.

But, take it with a grain of salt. After all, this is just a legitimate criticism. Lauren's told me those are okay. If you feel that this is all off topic for this thread, by all means. I'll simply post it on your Wall instead, where it would be much more appropriate, no?

If you feel offended, I'm sorry. I had no intention to offend or upset with the above shpeal. I simply wished to offer a criticism, and would like to emphasize that Staff members of all people should be open to critique and criticisms, and listen with open ears, thick skin, and nothing but respect for the user making them, even if they disagree with what is being said.