Board Thread:Wikia Discussion/@comment-28069733-20170526022034/@comment-141749-20170527014153

I can explain the promotion system in this wiki

First wikia has two different mod, discussion mod and content mod, have their own rights and not overlap to each others. Later one need to be promoted by bureaucrat. In this wiki content mod always comes with discussion mod rights so you can consider content mod is top of discussion mod. But usually we only promote content mod if that staff does neeed such access rights for editing protected page and all staff are equal. Also, only bureaucrat can promote or demote admin.

Chat mod can be promoted by any admin anytime without any reason, In order to reduce conflict between staff it is recommended to demote chat mod by the admin who promoted him, unless we can't contact him or other staffs agree to do so. Chat mods are NOT part of our staff.

Discussion mod can be promoted by admin too, but as they are part of our staff it can't be loose like chat mod. It is recommended to be backed by some of our admins by starting thread on Suggestion page or now staff discord. It does not need my approval but better give a notice to me as well as other staff about these promotion.

Content mod must be promoted by bureaucrat, usually promoted from discussion mod when they need more rights to edit protected pages (their access is nearly same as admin, but cannot use admin panel or promote others)

Now come to admin, in early day the requirement is rather low, you only need good contribution and applied in the open applications (you can read my old blogs) but this simple system was removed after one of the rouge admin gensui hime abused his rights and damaged our wiki and community. Now we no longer have open admin application or promote admin directly from regular users, but promoting current staff after careful evaluation.

The requirement is higher but it doesnt mean you must be good at everything or expert in this game to be admin. From backbone lua pages to community side. Currently we have admin 24/7 to deal with any incident which need admin rights to fix, such as banning vandal, compare to other wiki our number of (active) admin is high, but it was my intention to have a big staff pool and no limit for any position so our users can find help quickly, and was planned to promote more after last event.

Even i have disagreement with tsubakura i still promoted him to this position because it is necessary for him to mass editing pages at that time, and since day one my job here is helping contributor to build wiki but not limiting them so I wont mind they are friendly to me or not.

Not only him some questioned why this wiki is "lack of leadership" because I treated all staff here as adult and know what to do without ordering or forcing them, and they proved that by their action. Also any staff can take this leadership role and you dont need a big title to let other listen to you. Also I gave staff to do their task in their own way unless their action or request is unacceptable (e.g. removing all anon editing) and this method also reduce possible conflict or struggle between staff.

Please always remember all users including staff are volunteers, using title as reward or demote/ban as punishment (yes, i told staff that never use ban as punishment or personal reason unless they broke any rules) we have excellent staff here and I take no credit for it. My job is just providing best environment for staff and user to build this wiki and order staff or restricting user only make them leave, just like other unpopular wiki. Wiki is for everyone to edit, if you like total control wiki is not your choice. It is unlikely giving them lots of limitation, high standard and they still build the wiki for you.