Thread:Cinnabar The Evil Gem Chemist 55555555555555555550/@comment-3225604-20131017144404/@comment-4189499-20131018012014

I still think it's a rubbish idea to give in to him. Who cares if he's the founder? The founder of Doctor Who Answers made 3 edits, 6 if deleted ones are counted, and left, never to return. He had his admin powers taken away because of inactivity, and if he suddenly turned up demanding change, he will probably be answered "no". Most ideas should be discussed and should go with community consensus where everyone's vote is equal. Giving Lefty his own difficulty setting in the template is suggesting that he's better than everyone else. Let me tell you something: hitting "Create a wiki" doesn't make you more powerful than everyone else. Sure, you may have been the first person to hit that button with the intent of creating a wiki about Candy Crush Saga, but that doesn't mean you would have been the only user. It is then up to the many users of the wiki to make this place actually good. This isn't something the founder can claim sole credit for. Many users put in their time and effort to make this wiki what it is today, and to suggest that Lefty is better than all of them, better enough to gain his own difficulty rating for levels, is just insulting to all those other users. If you have a founder difficulty, why not have an admin difficulty voted on by all admin? And while you're at it, create a separate registered and non-registered user difficulty level. That will keep everyone happy.

Look, Wildoneshelper, I won't revert your edits, but I just want it to be known that I am really against this on the principle of the thing. It starts with a separate difficulty setting, but where will it end? You really need to take into account the future ramifications of what you are doing, and I can't see this ending well.

Hey, here's an idea: start a forum post asking other users if they want separate difficulties for Lefty and the rest. Whatever gets more than 50% support after a couple of weeks should win, ignoring neutrals. Everyone's vote will be considered equal, and we can let democracy decide what's right to do.

Also, just from a technical standpoint if this does go ahead, you should probably choose a parameter name other than "difficulty" because there is already a lot of "difficulty" parameters still lying around from before the difficulty level template was created, meaning that the value will not be what Lefty wants exactly unless he manually goes to all levels and changes it. If you put it under another name with an #if statement so it only appears when used, Lefty then will only have to change it when he feels like it, rather than having to change everything to something right now. It would make life easier for everyone as well as being more accurate.