Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4544033-20150314224502/@comment-1251315-20150321102345

Madman97 wrote: I honestly don't know why you're so opposed to it Sajuuk. Who cares if they are labled "Retired" or "Former" staff? Because they have very different meanings. Retired implies they stepped down of their own accord, but we all know that several of the staff did not step down on their own accord but were voted out, hence they're "former" staff. Retired implies they will never be coming back, but we know that's not true, so yeah it should be changed to be less specific.

And regardless of your example of one user being ousted, CCC is right in saying that we should try to remember the good things they have done and not the bad. We should still encourage them to come back, maybe not as a staff member, but as a member of the community. It's funny, because said staff member DISABLED their account! They can't come back on that account and they absolutely abused their position so much that we should not even pretend they're a staff member. Or are you saying we should recognise former staff when they start blocking Wikia Staff for being external threats or members when they don't agree with an admin's views?

Nearly all of the staff who have stepped down have no intention of ever coming back. Especially none of the staff who were here before Timeoin became a bureaucrat and improved the wiki. In fact, for the sake of the wiki's future, we should not even try to pretend anything happened before Timeoin was here, because back then, the wiki was a joke and just run by incompetents.