User blog comment:Nat25/Ranting / HELP/@comment-26484881-20150208172204

In my nearly four years here, I have never seen someone so sadly misinformed as this.

To address your points in the order they appear:

1. The entire point of having departments and 'official' helpers is to keep order. Can you imagine how chaotic it will be if everyone single user got onto each and every claim giving advice left and right? It would make approving the claim so much harder because some of the advice would be irrelevant, too harsh, or based upon claim rules that don't even exist. And imagine letting every single user help on anything and everything. Most may have good intentions, but what if they don't have any idea what they're doing? They'd make a mess for others to clean. And if everyone was free to do whatever they want? Bottom line is, this place would be a mess. The only way to keep this place up and running is with a clear system of leadership, through the departments. Each department will have their own task and this way, editing conflicts, and overstepping on where another department or player's jurisdiction is will be minimized. That's the point of being an official helper and having admin departments. Without departments and delegated tasks, you are creating a gigantic bureaucratic mess from the grass roots of the wiki up. This is why there are departments. If players want to help, they can become official wiki helpers and at the same time, learn some skills to enhance their performance in the work they do on this wiki. The admins aren't trying to push away help, they are trying to prevent a logistical nightmare.

2. Coding. If you wish to halt coding, you might as well just shut down the wiki. Ever since the beginning, coding has become an integral part of the wiki. From reformatting a picture to fit in with the words, to word bubbles, to creating the perfect template for your character page, coding is an inescapable element on this wiki. The admins, staff, and regular users coding is what keeps this wiki alive, not the contrary.

3. "Things haven't been updated". Do you realize how many pages, categories, and forums there are on this wiki now? I was there at the beginning of the wiki's life when it was an infant with only a few hundred pages. Now, it is in the thousands. Also tell me this. In the wiki's hey day, each department had plenty of users in each to go around. Unequal distributions in some cases, but this would often be remedied. With a lot of the older users and some newer users gone, look at the departments. They are not as strong as before, but they are working twice as hard to keep everything updated. Do you realize how many hours some people spend here coding, maintaining lists, adding categories, and the such? I can tell you, it's easy to complain, but if there weren't people like the admins, staff and truely dedicated users here, this place would have been dead long ago. I have full confidence in the current leadership of this wiki and I know they can make things right and pave a new, wonderful way for this wiki.

4. "Be nice". While I agree that we should be nice to one another as per the policies, I heartily disagree with where you're coming from, as this is another jab at the staff. They have to juggle an insane amount of work here, in the real world, and their social lives online and offline. It's no easy task and I can tell you, even this wiki, something that's meant to be fun, can stress people. They aren't trying to be rude people and believe me, I know most would want everyone (including themselves) to be happy. But there is simply too much work and even they need to vent through their emotions somehow instead of bottling up their feelings. Please consider this the next time you think one of the staff are lashing out simply because they want to. They aren't trying to. They are living, breathing humans too, so be lenient on them and try to help them instead of critiscizing them for venting their frustration.

This about concludes my analysis of your blog.