Thread:GD Protostar/@comment-25406802-20190619011406

Heya Protostar, how's life?

Being a retired user here, I have allowed myself to focus a bit more on school but to be fair I still can't seem to get myself constrained out of FANDOM or Discord entirely. I can say I am slightly less active, however, which is a good thing. Bad thing is that I think I failed mathematics. Seriously.

Now, there are some things I'd like you to note.

I've been hearing what users have to say about the ethics of staff members, and they are generally positive, sometimes mixed via the perspectives of certain people. However, the general consensus is that all staff are, to an extent, be it small or large, cooperative and trusting users of the wiki. Despite the different characteristics we may have, we all share the common goal: to maintain the wiki. While a larger effort is always viable, I can say we are doing decent as of the progression of the wiki.

The next topic is regarding responsibility and tasks itself. You know how Nusdan takes lead role as a bureaucrat because he had been proven to be highly trustworthy. When I was staff, a select few of users has said how I "held this wiki together" and so on and so forth. It may feel reinvigorating to hear those compliments, and trust me, it is when you know you are doing something right, but to be fair, they don't matter in a grand scale of things. Why? Because anyone can shape this wiki and everyone has a fundamental/key role to making the wiki where it is today, especially you, Nusdan, Nawak, and even users like Haveorc or Fasterrr. The difference, however, is how much of an effort you put.

From the time I have been staff here, I can say that I have enjoyed working alongside you. You are clearly a respectful and responsivle user who gets tasks done, and no doubt in my mind are you a major contributor to the site.

However, I think it's time you spiced up your contributions.

Your general pattern is updating pages with relevant and factual information, and updating extreme demon information. Extreme demons notably get more attention that any other level pages in the wiki, simply because they stand out due to difficulty. This time, I'd like you to be more versatile and try to cover more than just extreme demons and pages of the sort. Try to grasp more attention onto the stub pages there are in the wiki and try to help bring them back to life. In another sense, go outside your comfort zone and take other pages not being as popular for editing into consideration.

Additionally, I think it's also time you took a more serious approach. The reason I say this is because generally you as an administrator have focused mainly on article management and tweaking, but not really external factors such as moderation between users and their edits. In fact, you don't pitch in to make direct confrontation with any user who is violating policies or misbehaving, rather it is other staff and seldom regular users. I'd like you to try encouraging users to contribute as well, while making sure they are being mature and not fooling around with their edits or persona, from vandalizing to attacking other users for their edits. You can easily find out who may have caused a vandalism through the recent wiki activity, and you can use the wiki activity to inspect forums and message walls and make sure everything is steady. If you feel that there is something wrong, don't hesitate to step in. Try to be more strict in a sense, but not harsh at that.

You may also enjoy playing around with the Admin dashboard and get to know the features there from Batch Delete to Mass Categorization. There are no current needs for that now, but in the future, who knows? You might enjoy playing around with it, and it makes management a bit easier.

These are just some tips coming from an ex-staff member. You don't have to follow them precisely or anything of the sort if you don't want to, but I thought I'd weigh in.

As always, keep up the good work!

-Sonar 