Forum:Vote:Chatroom Etiquette

This is not a proposition. A proposition is a simple, unnecessary vote. This is something more decisive.

Preface
In the meantime, WikiChat is disabled. Depending on what happens, it could stay that way.

The introduction of chat has resulted in plenty of conflict and derision, as well as inactivity on the main site.

Regarding the Vote
To be honest, this vote isn't really necessary. Not in the least.

Keep a few things in mind:
 * Not everything has to go to a vote.
 * As seen here. the rules of the Wiki apply to WikiChat when applicable, because it is (and nothing more) a feature of the main site.
 * Common courtesy should extend outside across the site. However mature you think someone has to be to play CA is irrelevant. That's Nexon's problem. Here, our rules apply, regardless of our audience's varying ages. If we decide on keeping profanity to a minumum, then our word is law.
 * The administrators decide the rules. The Community can contest whatever they want, and we will listen to them. We may act accordingly. But as long as they remain fair and balanced, the rules are absolute. We act of our own accord, because Central Wikia can do nothing to interfere what our Community decides. We have free will and free reign, so we are on our own.

Regarding the Staff
The problem here is that the administrators of our site are too lax.

Not only are they lacking in numbers, but they don't carry the authority that they have on other sites---because they've mingled too much with the average editor. This, therefore, gives some users the audacity to walk all over the administrators, and all the other rules across the site.

At this point, we have people starting propositions for everything, and clamoring how they're not being properly represented and their voices aren't being heard.

Wrong.

While obviously the users of the community are to be respected, and their opinions treasured, not everything has to be decided by them. That's why we have administrators in the first place, to take care of things that the ordinary user cannot.

Appointing new Moderators or Administrators isn't something to be voted on by the Community. It can be, and the elevation of an ordinary user to a staff member through a vote can be perfectly valid. But this rarely happens in most situations.

Adminstrators, and administrators alone should appoint new staff members. It's up to them, as their problem, to find new mods & admins on the basis of their quality, character, and active dedication. They decide on it together, as a group. The Community gives their opinion afterwards, and then steps are taken if the decision wasn't the right one.

Quality alone won't cut it. You can have a handful of quality edits, but a lack of activity and overall terrible conduct dim your prospects by quite a bit.

Nor quantity. Having thousands of edits---or these days, simply comments or user page edits---don't indicate anything about you except that you have a lot of spare time on your hands, and you're most likely not cut out for a staff position. Those who hope to get through by quantity alone often find themselves lacking in quality; maybe through grammar and illiteracy, conduct, or positive contributions.

And activeness. How can we measure how good of a staff member you'll be if you're hardly on enough? How can we count on you when important issues arise? And yet, you could be on all the time and not contribute at all.

And many other things are taken into consideration. When all else fails, and when there's no one else to convene and decide, you end up with how I became an administrator. A desperate passing of the torch, to someone you think may or may nor carry on the legacy you've created.

But we're not going to let that happen. The Wiki isn't going anywhere anytime soon, and neither are its rules.

Summary
Right now, we have too many moderators---chat or otherwise---and not enough moderating. People who sit in chat all day, yet refrain from making a single, actual edit for days, if not weeks at a time.

Furtermore, we don't have clear-cut rules. While we do have a guideline to adhere to, hardly anyone follows it. General policies and rules are vague, some things are just completely ignored, and some people think that they can make up their own rules.

Closing
And that ends my point. Leave your vote by using the or  templates in a single comment. Like any other voting measure, you only get one vote and must explain the reasoning behind it.

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