User blog comment:Cosmicsilver/An Outside Assessment of This Wiki/@comment-1251315-20150330090906

As pointed out by Rim, we are looking to change the way users can be given additional user rights. But I disagree with Rim that edit counts are a needed requirement: the edit count is just a statistic, it means absolutely nothing at all and should not be a requirement for anything. Someone could make 100 awesome edits that prove they should have additional rights, and as said by Cosmic, an edit count does not instant mean the user is right.

The issue of policies is something I'm personally invested in sorting. A lot of our policies are writting with confusing terminology, weird legalese mixed in with just plain odd statements and things that don't belong in certain places. The policies are, essentially, wordy. For an example, the Narutopedia (which I reference a lot :P) has a short and simple style guideline that everyone understands: w:c:naruto:Manual of Style.

The wiki has additional policies we might not need, but there's a reason the Narutopedia is one of the largest anime/manga wiki's on Wikia and garners at least 5 million views consistently every day. While I can't compare this wiki with Narutopedia, since they are of different genres, it's still interesting to see that Narutopedia seems to do just fine with simple and easy to understand policies and we struggle because of difficult policies and un-needed reverting of good faith contributions, calling nearly every bad edit we don't like as "vandalism". I could probably look through a bunch of other wiki's to find that other wiki's don't have so many complicated policies like we have here.

I agree totally with the idea of cliques here. It's clear that every time I do something, people complain. I can assure you that if someone else did exactly the same thing and they were part of a clique, nobody would complain. The clique idea extends to some of the staff, where people have the wrong idea that patrollers and sysops are always right and we, the lowly users, have no right to criticise them, which is blatantly nonsense and patrollers/sysops have to learn to accept that people won't agree with them all the time and to take any criticism, harsh or not, as a way to improve themselves to become better.

I can't add much more, so I'll just leave it here. :)