User blog comment:Emmaelise401/Official Resignation - Corruption Spreads/@comment-76.234.232.37-20160106060618

It's time for me to speak out. I've held my tongue for so long.

I will mention why the wiki is dying. One bureaucrat is now semi-inactive, one wants to promote more currently active users to administrators before they leave, and the third has opposing views. I don't see anything wrong with a staff reboot, promoting users that are more active and demoting the ones that are less active. The inactivity policy shouldn't apply because some admins may make one edit a day and are not considered "inactive," but they do not contribute to the wiki as much as other regular users that deserve it. Those who aim for it do not get it, become discouraged, and leave. I don't mind if the user has a sudden burst of interst for a month, gets admin rights, and then bcomes inactive. We always have the power to demote, but this will cause the user to stay for longer.

Another problem is that we already lost most of our good users, and they will not be coming back. Many anonymous IP users contributed before we decided to block all anon editing. That drove away half our team. I see some brilliant IPs working alongside us, creating files to use on the wiki, adding difficulties, strategies, and other template edits, and now it has all disappeared. As such, vandalism increases, and there isn't any power to control it. (JoyIF has recently come back. Though she isn't as interested as before, she does help out the wiki more.  Maybe this user wasn't a good example to state in your blog post, but you do have a point).

Forum threads - this has already been discussed and controlled. Not every other thread has been highlighted. Recently, admins have been doing a good job with highlighting important things, so it doesn't address a concern. It is human's nature to fight over every little, so dramas can't be prevented. It's something that we can't fix.

Chat - I now do not want a chat bot overlooking the wiki. The bot is scary away users because every word mentioned goes into a chat log which can be used against you at anytime.

By writing this, I have decided to temporarily promote six current users to administrators for fresh blood. This is a beta test - we can't have too many administrators. I want to see how they will do. I have also temporarily promoted one bureaucrat on this wiki to see if he will do good job with it. And I know that he will agree to demote himself when necessary, and he will not abuse his rights. I will keep all of these users nameless. I'm saying that these rights are temporary until further discussion. IT IS CURRENTLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BECOME AN ADMINISTRATOR ON THIS WIKI WITH THE CURRENT SYSTEM THAT I STILL DISAGREE WITH. I got my bureaucrat rights from a user when the system was easier. Now if I applied for bureaucrat, forget it! I've been here for a long time, when the wiki was still prosperous, so pardon me, I think I have an equal say in this. I always get shoved aside, and this is the time I take stand. I want more than just Rose, Flockky, Elsa, and DoCheonGong to be participating actively in editing this wiki. This wiki needs to be successful, sharing rights. One admin makes a mistake, it's fine. We all make mistakes. But we need to experiment instead of shutting everyone out. Practice makes perfect.

And for you Emma, I respect your decision if you want to leave because of an awful community. Hopefully you can branch out to other wikis and leave this one behind :P. We can always Skype!

-Primetime