User blog:Captaingoldvane2/Latest News from the Administrators ( March Week 2 )

Well, I decided I'd start doing a weekly admin blog with some insight on what's going on.

Promotions
First I'd like to congratulate Albert Spark and Nults McKagan on rollback promotions! We had alot of drama over one of these votes. While I understand these may have not been the candidates some of you were hoping for, it is absurd the amount of immature arguing that ensued due to a simple rollback promotion. A rollback promotion!

I could understand if someone was being promoted to administrator and there was this many drama blogs, but a simple rollback? It really disappoints me. We talked with quite a few community members closely and just about everyone had a different group of people the wanted to be promoted. As stated in my previous post, we knew that there would be some unhappy campers and some fighting, but the amount of fighting that broke out over a rollback promotion... we didn't  think this crap would happen at this level.

Voting issues
I do admit there were a few things we changed with the voting this time. Jack and I agreed that there would be some drama over this ( Again, we didn't imagine the hell that happened, though ), so Jack suggested a 10 vote system. It seemed like a good idea to us so we went with it. One of the reasons we did this was also because, for goodness sakes, it's a simple rollback promotion ( I know I have probably exhausted this point, but it's a huge one. ), it really doesn't affect the site hardly at all ( They get to participate in some discussions and rollback edits. Big deal ). Other reasons included that 20-vote blogs take a lifetime, and just drag the drama out ( We knew from the beginning that there would be SOME drama with whoever we promoted, because everyone had their opinions on who they wanted. ), which is not something we wanted.

Nonetheless, we realize now we had faults in our system, and we promise a MUCH better, improved system for any future promotions ( Pistol and I are going to probably do a revamp on many of the voting rules ).

Admin blogs ( like this one )
I have decided I'll be making one of these every week, or at least attempting to. I think I'll be doing it every Monday if possible, and if not, Tuesday works.