Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25047024-20140331144326

Over the time in which I've been here, I noticed that Forum Moderators, Chat Moderators and News Team members have been treated rather disrespectfully.

I mostly noticed this in the Reevaluation threads, were Patrollers and Admins came storming in as soon as somebody even said something against a Patroller and/or Admin. Also, during that discussion, several Patrollers and Admins claimed that other staff members aren't as valuable as Patrollers and Admins because "the Mainspace is more important". Well, let me tell you how disgusting and unfair that claim is:

So, what do we have in this wiki? The Mainspace, which is the place in which every article exists. Now, obviously that is not all. We also have the Forums (which has currently c.a 11000 threads) and the Chat. Obviously, this Wiki needs people who care about the Forum and Chat. These people are Forum and Chat Moderators. So, (I'll now talk out of my perspective as a Forum Mod) we tediously control every thread, we move them to their right boards, we prevent arguments from happening and warn Users who insult other people and/or post links leading to porn. Now, what do we get for this work? Nothing. No cent. We go on this wiki on our free time, while we could do so many other things. We do that because we like this wiki. BUT. We also don't get RESPECT.

Sorry, but it's just disgusting how Admins and Patrollers literally freak out as soon as somebody doesn't "respect" them (evidence being what Jimeee did on Shockstorms talk page). But they don't respect other staff members. Not at all. How is it possible that Patrollers and Admins openly state that Forum and Chat Mods aren't as important the (in their view)"higher" staff members; the Patrollers and Admins? How is that possible? Am I wasting my time? Is any other Staff Member, except Patrollers and Admins wasting their time? Are we too DUMB to get respect from them?

I won't accept that. Now, in this thread, the same thing has happened again. Patrollers and Admins calling other staff members unimportant. Let me quote something here:

"Not to say that being a forum moderator isn't important, but I'm sorry, but it doesn't hold as much worth as being an admin, patroller, bureaucrat, in my opinion."

Wow. Really? Are we so far now? Forum Mods aren't important? Yeah, sure. We are totally unimportant. It's not like we remove countless of spam threads, it's not like we help Users with questions, it's not like ''we are doing our job for NO MONEY. ''I can't, and won't accept that. I might as well just leave the wiki if nobody thinks that I and other Forum, Chat Mods and News Team members are important. You know what? How about all Staff Members, except the Patrollers and Admins, totally leave this wiki for one week and let them manage the Mainspace, Forums and Chat alone? Well, tell you what:

'It won't work. Not at all. '

I'm pretty sure that this thread will be stormed by patronising Admins and Patrollers too. Well, I'll still leave this wiki for one week. Sorry, that's just too much. If people don't value my work, then I might as well stop working. After all, we aren't needed, right? 