Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-24573226-20171007211457/@comment-25936766-20171008025311

Phantomlink959 wrote: I transferred the nomination post to this thread, and SYUTK copied his post in argument against it from this very thread. I wasn't arguing against it. I haven't voted neither in pro nor against Griff's de-nomination.

What I was doing is question the arguments used to justify said de-nomination. Basically:

1) "X number of edits in Y amount of time" is not an indicator of whether someone is or could be a good or bad bureaucrat, admin, mod, etcetera.

2) "Absence" needs to be clarified. Sometimes, an user is present, watching, but simply chooses not to interact, either because they don't feel like it or because there's no need for them to do so.

And when it comes to Discord, as far as I've noted, Griff has been the oposite of absent, even if he doesn't talk much out of the Staff channel. In fact, he's online right now.

3) "Inactivity" also needs to be clarified. There are dozens of staff members, and many of them react quickly to whatever stuff happens, be they bad edits, vandalism, etcetera. In fact, "reacts quickly when problems arise" is a commonly-used argument when nominating users for Staff positions.

The reason inactivity needs to be clarified is because, due to the amount of staff members, if something happens, multiple staff members already dealt with the issue before Griff, or the rest of the staff, could even try to do it themselves. And when the problem is solved by someone, there's no need for the others to try to solve it.

And of course, in the Interaction side, being "confronted" about something you did by who is basically the Big Boss of the Wiki, instead of a normal admin or mod, is like being confronted by the governor of the state you're visiting. Just being the Bureaucrat automatically makes it have more weight, for good and for ill.