User blog comment:BusyCityGuy/The wiki - 2014/@comment-7078143-20121008235926

Here's what I've been wanting to happen, and silently been praying for to happen since I joined and left the Wiki:


 * Just get rid of the freaking badge system, for crying out loud. Drew, I know how much you want new editors, but it's tearing this place apart. We have at least one new user coming in every day, and two days later, they want to be #1 on the Leaderboard. It's all because of those utterly, downright, stupid badges that people go after: it's an addiction. The more badges you get, the more you want. It's just terrible, how little people care about quality editing and actually helping out the Wiki. Then, when we correct users in this matter, they go and cry, "Oh, I love helping out the Wiki, that's just my edit style!!!" Yeah, right. Go find an Admin in real life, look them in the eyes, and tell them that. All you guys care about are these badges. It's simple. Remove the Award system, and watch as every editor but three or four quit and hop onto chat. Sure, it'll take awhile, but they'll get over it. I'm just tired of looking here once a week, and seeing Cat, Liam, Alemas, and a bunch of other people who are editing for a spot on the Leaderboard.


 * Remove chat for a day. Just one day. See how everyone reacts. Sobbing, anger, and hatred will flush throughout blog posts, blaming the Admins and Chat Moderators. It would happen, and I know this for a fact, considering I watched it happen on the Nexus Adventures. Now, the Nexus Adventures has a lot less members than this place, so the wiki's hard drive would probably blow up with the amount of spam complaints people are making. The reason behind all of this? Duplicate accounts and spam. This is one of the major reasons I left: this place is time-consuming for a Chat Moderator in the very wrong ways. People spam, don't care about it, get banned, and make dupes just to hop back on chat. I'm not saying to get rid of chat forever, just for a bit to see how people react, and then you'll never look at the Wiki the same again. Ever


 * Make a new Rule List. And make it good this time. Seriously, no one, I repeat, no one, respects Chat Moderators, Administrators, or anyone with authority here anymore. This was another main reason I left. Bingo, you have two out of the three, guess the third. Anyways, a nice, not-too-strict but not-too-easy-going Rule List could just change the Wiki. The thing is, none of the Admins are ever on chat, and though there's five million Chat Moderators, few ever show on chat anymore. And I guarantee you, I absolutely assure you, that for most of these guys, it's that it's because of spam and disrespect on chat. Really, users, you're always sassing us, doing things you know you shouldn't be, and everything. Get a grip on the rules, and cut the crud before Drew starts allowing IP Blocks or something crazy like that. And I mean it, too, you never know when someone's going to get Blocked, and that someone could easily be you as anyone else on the wiki.


 * Maybe do something once, you lazy Rollbacks, and go track down people's IPs to start Blocking the dupes. Really, I see none of you doing anything about these idiot spam editors and extreme dupes. Why? I really don't know at this point in time. I bet'cha half of the users on this entire Wiki are duplicate accounts. We all know that people with no avatars who mysteriously show up are suspicious, but what about the ones we know and trust? It could obviously be anyone, hiding right under our noses, as a dupe, and we would've been too foolish to have ever noticed it. Imagine, half of these idiot users who do nothing on this Wiki, turned out to be culprits of a duplicate account against Wikia Policy, all blocked. The Wiki clean.

I might even come back.

Of course, though, none of this would ever happen. Because that Drew is too focused on getting more editors, Rollbacks only care about chatting nowadays, and because all of the good users are retiring.

Sorry if I'm being harsh, I just have lost all of my faith in this Wiki.