Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-9062114-20140907030841/@comment-9062114-20140907200701

Ghost Anubis wrote: Zippertrain85 wrote: Ghost Anubis wrote: Okay so here's the deal honestly, yes I believe that any staff position should have the opportunity to get admin if they are active in all areas of the wiki. But I think the biggest problems with Forum mods is that most of them just don't edit the mainspace, it's not an opinion but a fact, giving your opinion & advice just isn't what this wiki is about. It doesn't make somebody admin material. It's about the articles themselves.

That said, I do believe that a new user group needs to be created for Forum mods here like I did on my wiki. Give Forum mods the ability to actually close threads & so they can do their job effectively would not only be beneficial to the mods themselves, but to the wiki in general. Ghost, Patrollers don't go on the Forums either, is the thing. So, why is it different when Forum Moderators do not edit the Mainspace? Because the mainspace is what this wiki exists for Zipper. I already explained this to you, please tell me how a forum mod is going to give advice on the mainspace when they get admin, when they don't even know how to do it themselves? I specifically said in the first post that your personal opinion on what the Wiki is for is quite frankely irrelevant when discussing this, since regardless, it seems the community on here thinks of the site differently.

But to your point, doing some of these things aren't that difficult, like blocking disruptive users, deleting pages pages, even reverting vandalism. It doesn't take someone who is always editing to know how to handle these things. Even then, we could have Admins that specifically focus on that area, while others can focus on different areas. Putting the Mainspace above everything, despite the community growing with the Forums, will only serve to weaken our Wiki