Camp Half-Blood Role Playing Wiki:A Wiki Pledge

What this is For
In light of past issues when it comes to moderating and enforcing policies, we have decided to start a pledge. This pledge is to both remind members of the Admin Team, as well as the regular users, why the Admin Team is here, and what we have agreed upon by becoming a member of the Admin Team. Being someone that has to enforce rules, is not always a fun job, having a shiny star may seem cool, but at some point we are often faced with having to enforce rules that put us at odds with users we call friends. For the users who sign this, we are pledging to uphold the policies voted on by the wiki, to be caretakers of this wiki, to do our job as well as we can and to be the type of user that deserves your respect.

Chatmods, Rollbacks, Administrators and Bureaucrats should sign below, only if you agree to this pledge. If anyone has problems with something in this pledge, then perhaps we should have a debate as to what those problems are and how they can be corrected.

In order to have an unbiased point of view, Sannse a member of staff wrote the wording of the pledge. This way the no one can be accused of bias as far as how it's been worded.

The Pledge
 Our Pledge

 We the undersigned, the bureaucrats, admins, rollbacks and chatmods of Camp Half-blood Roleplay, recognise the importance of fair and consistent moderating of chat and the wiki. With that in mind, we pledge to respect and enforce all wiki policies to the best of our ability, with no regard to personal friendships and other differences between users. We also pledge to respect those policies ourselves, and to treat all users with respect while we moderate the wiki and chat.

If anyone, including admins and general users, disagrees with a policy, then they may start a formal debate so that the question can be discussed and dealt with appropriately and as voted by the community. While this discussion is current, and until a final decision is made by the community, we agree to enforce the policy as written

In emergency or unique situations, that seem to require action outside the policies, we pledge to only do so with the agreement of at least two other rights-holding people. If they are not available, any action will only last as long as necessary to find those people. Any out-of-policy action of this type will be regarded as an extreme and unusual step

We agree this as custodians of this wiki, and in the interests of full fairness and accountability of all bureaucrats, admins, Rollbacks and chatmods.

Signers

 * 1) (Bureaucrat, head of GS)

Helpful Advice to Reg Users
If you see things going on, either in chat, or in general on the wiki, either by other users, or even users on the Admin Team, that breaks rules or is otherwise rude or sketchy behaviour, please do not hesitate to bring it to the attention of another member of the Admin Team.

If you are in chat and witness a chatmod trying to discipline someone who is breaking chat rules. Please try to refrain from getting involved. You may think you're helping, but in the process could end up making things worse. If they ask for help, or if you'd like to get help for them by finding another chatmod to get online (if the situation is going badly), that's fine. But please respect the chatmod. They are the ones that are there to enforce the policies that the wiki community voted on. Let them do their job.

If you disagree with a policy or feel that one of the members of the Admin Team are not doing an appropriate job (for varying reasons such as, they are biased, rude, breaking the rules themselves, etc.) Please do not hesitate to bring it to the attention of someone or start a Debate on it so it can be discussed.

Helpful Advice to Users with Stars
Having a star isn't all it's cracked up to be. Oft-times you end up being faced at odds with those you consider friends. If you are trying to enforce rules in chat, and users are not listening to you. Try getting another chatmod to look at the situation and see if they feel you are following the guidelines of our rules appropriately. The first mod can say something like "I asked x to check my decision, to make sure it was fair. She agrees, so I will enforce a 30 time-out for anyone continuing this disruption". So this way, it's not "I called them to tell me what to do, or to take over", but "I called them to help me be sure I was being fair and keeping ot the policies".

Now, there's going to be times there's quite a few users on with stars. This can't be avoided, in order to make sure we have enough active users on, to cover time zones that span 24 hour periods, there's going to be unavoidable times when there's more chatmos on than needed. If you see that a chatmod is taking care of a situation in chat, and has not asked for help, let them deal with it. Having 3 chatmods going off on one user can just make the situation worse and more confusing.

Also, please remember, if you want respect, you have to act in such a way you deserve respect. If you go off breaking the rules yourself, but then trying to enforce them when others break the rules, people will hardly have any reason to listen to you. Or if you're seen to be lenient when your friends break rules, but not other users, again, people will hardly have any reason to listen to you. We are here as custodians, we are voted in to uphold the policies that the community voted on. Maybe the entire community didn't vote you in, but the entire community can surely vote you out, if you aren't doing your job in a mature, respectable manner that is fair and unbiased.

Any Questions?
If you have any questions, feel free to start a discussion about this in this forum or speak with an admin about what's been going on.