Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20140330060001/@comment-9062114-20140331152552

Speysider wrote: I'm actually very shocked by the amount of arrogance, ignorance and defence shown in this thread.

Let me spell this out to every single staff member here: NO USER ON THIS WIKI IS ABOVE ANYONE ELSE

If you think that being a rollback, sysop or crat makes you above everyone else, you clearly have no understanding of what a wiki is and you should consider leaving and taking that mentality to an internet forum, where such things are allowed.

A wiki is about a community, there is no such thing as a power hierarchy and this is made VERY CLEAR on the wiki creation policy. Let me quote it here for everyone who isn't aware:

Wikia are community projects, not personal websites. They are not owned by their founders, nor does the founder's opinion carry more weight in disagreements than any other user's opinion. Consensus and cooperation should be the primary means for organizing a wiki. At this present point, I don't see any signs of a community or co-operation: what I see is people defending rollbacks/sysops who really shouldn't have their powers, as well as rollbacks/sysops thinking that they are above everyone else and have total immunity from losing their powers. Reality check: no user is immune to losing their powers.

What most patrollers and sysops do not realise is that having a flag such as chatmod, rollback or sysop is not a status symbol. It is a flag that gives you extra tools to help the wiki: if you think that the flag gives you some sort of god-like status on this wiki, you are wrong and need to change your mindsets.

This is how things work everywhere else on the internet: if you become inactive, for any reason, for a whole month, you lose your rights and someone else will fill your place who is more active.

That said, I will give because Jimeee has been fairly inactive, has admitted to editing on a competitor's wiki and whenever he is active, it's usually to leave condescending or patronising messages.

I have no problems with users going to edit elsewhere. However, there is one major issue that sets Jimeee apart from "just another random user": he is a sysop here and he is a role model for other users, if other users see a sysop here going to the competitor's wiki, they will think it's alright to do so and our wiki will lose members. Brilliantly said, I completely agree.