Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-11649650-20140226024048/@comment-24400038-20140309195721

Cheatcodechamp wrote: When given power, you become a representative of that wiki, and everyone will use that power differently and that is not a bad thing. We all know that one admin who is power hungry and extremely strict, and they are often looked on as brute enforcers holding more fear then respect.

I have not really seen any abuse of power by admins or patrollers in chat; though I am only in chat for about two hours a week. Whenever I see people complain about admins being too strict, they're usually trolling up attention for themselves.

We have the opposite problem from what I'm seeing. If our chat mods are a part of the problem, then they need to either change or we need to consider demoting them. I don't want to see that happen, so we need to set up a strict line of what their jobs are, and at what point does it go from joking around to crude and needless behavior. Anybody who cross' that line gets a warning, a kick, and a temporary ban, not to be cruel or rule crazy, but to keep a clear environment that everybody can enjoy. The fear some of us have about losing people if we enforce the rules is with merit, we will lose people who break the rules and don't care, but we also stand to gain more people if they feel the chat is a safe place to joke and talk to other fans of Elder scrolls.

The people we risk loosing are those that do not care about the rules at all. The unmoderated chat style they are looking for exists only through servers like AOL where you need to have a credit card to use their chat rooms. I see no need for a wiki with fourteen year old children to allow this type of behavior.