Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-5264386-20140810061848/@comment-24480699-20140813054221

I'm a frequent visitor to this wiki, and I recognize an "know" a lot of the big users on here despite not being very involved or actually talking to any of them. I haven't contributed much to the wiki, but I still feel like I'm a part of it.

I kinda want to say that we probably shouldn't be so worried about flame wars and other kinds of disputes on here as much as we are, since the DaS community is surprisingly polite. I mean, I've seen a grand total of about two or three genuine fights on here that actually got tense. Most heated discussions I've read over had a very high level of maturity and mutual respect, which is something I've grown quite used to seeing in DaS.

Yeah, I think we should limit how much a user can talk when voting. (if we go the "community votes" route) Probably by at least making it so that once they vote and state why, they can't reply to their post and no-one can reply to the same post twice. Thus, making fights impossible without excluding the community at large.

I also agree that only admins, chat mods, ect. are the only ones who can decide whether or not to nominate a user, and then the staffers and community vote. Other users should at least be able to tell an admin or ect. "Hey, nominate this guy," on a specific "Submit Nominations Here" thread, however. That way, a potential staffer is less likely to slip the net, and the forums don't get cluttered with votes for people who are most certainly not up to the task of being a staffer.

Also, non-wiki members should probably not have any pull whatsoever. I'm sorry, but like someone already said,(I forgot who) "If you can't be bothered to make an account, you probably don't have the wiki's best interest at heart."

Also, a little off the topic, to prevent people from making an account, doing something that requires an account, and then never logging in again, we should probably make it so that a user needs to have their account for at least a week or so before they get their privileges.

Also, even more off topic, it might be a good idea to change it so that only registered users can make edits. I know it sounds unnecessarily harsh, but it would cut back on false edits. But more importantly, it'll make it WAAAAY easier to keep track of users who might be worth bumping up to staffer status.

I'm a big fan of the work you people put into this site, and I just wanted to say some stuff and see if it helps any.