Board Thread:Community Voting/@comment-25995065-20150317063943/@comment-25995065-20150318202043

Eagleeyedan wrote: Starrocks923 wrote: Bourgeoisie wrote:

Eagleeyedan wrote: Oppose. I can tell you right now there is little we admins unanimously agree on unless it is something particularly drastic. Our agreement was a lot easier when there were only three of us, but because we allowed the community to vote in adminship, there are many more of us and we rarely agree perfectly now. Under this system, you are now saying that if the community votes to delete the wiki, we would be forced to do so. I realize that will probably never happen, but it is an example of how easily a rabble rousing troll with support could cause serious damage. Wake up sheeple. ▂▃▅▆▇█▓▒░Eagleeyedan▒░▓█▇▆▅▃▂ But people don't vote for things that they don't see a benefit for their community in. "Benefit" is up for interpretation. And while I don't doubt the current users, I do doubt the users to come...

I've been around this place long enough to doubt current, past, and future users hence I'm so wary to change what has stood strongly for so long. I helped build this place way back when in the format it is for many reasons, along with the other founders LEGOguy1866, LEGOBatmankid10, and Drew1200. The two of us who are left are in shock over what is going on and I can tell you the others would have no less sadness if they saw where this is going. This is what we hoped would never happen, this is what happened at Briki, and I will fight this with all I have. I am not politically correct, I do not mince words, and you will be seeing my thoughts on these matters soon. While I don't mince words, I think them over carefully so it may be another week until I'm ready. ▂▃▅▆▇█▓▒░Eagleeyedan▒░▓█▇▆▅▃▂ This is where I'll tell you you're wrong. No community can exist the same way it was when it was started if it expects to change. This community already has changed. It's more than the 4 users it once was, and thus, things end up being done differently. As the community progresses and develops, the policies and procedures also need to progress and develop. It's how any community works. This is a basic fact they teach you when you plan to major in community development as I have. "This is what we hoped would never happen, this is what happened at Briki" – But Bricki has grown and developed to be a much greater community than this has. About the time LMBW was founded, back in 2011, was when Bricki just started developing its own successful community and procedures. You compare the sites now and Bricki has grown more and had less issues over time than this wiki. As you are one of the "founding" users of this community, you should know that you can't resent change and progress unless you want the community that you helped start to fail. You can't continue to use processes and policies for small wikis when this wiki has grown to have a much larger community.

And even if some Hitler of a user came here and misled users to let him rise to power and make some forum to delete the wiki, that's where Wikia's Terms of Use comes in. All in all, it's impossible for any immediate harm to be done to itself by the community. There are safeguards in place that don't require sysops to have more authority than the average user, hence why you don't see any other established wiki communities being taken over by Hitlers like you fear.