User blog comment:Batorhos/Wiki Government Idea/@comment-3028058-20120309191652

The key to being an admin as far as controlling when something gets out of hand is realizing when someone has forfeited their rights to votes. For example, Pearson vandalizing the wiki? Should be (and I'm not aware of whether this is indeed what happened or not) instantly banned, no vote. Anything that places the community or its members in an immediate threat should be immediately cracked down upon. But smaller issues obviously should be handled more democratically, because they don't pose that immediate threat. As far as RP arguments go, I think creating an actual RP subforum would eliminate that problem. People would only post completely IC and therefore all RP arguments would never be mixed with OOC arguments or comments. I see way too much of people mixing those two up and overreacting wildly in an actual way to things that happened or were said in character. For example, when Pearson tried to hack his enemies IC but hacking is a serious crime OOC, and it not only created an actual sense of dread within the community but poses an actual security threat. I think if we educate ourselves a bit better on how RP is supposed to be (and is) handled on every other MMO (with RP forums, and obvious IC-OOC divides) then we will cut down ALOT of this incessant and unnecessary arguing. The solution that many had decided to take instead, which still pains me, was to limit RP. That's not the answer. Nor is installing a totalitarian style of adminship on the wiki. That would be worst-case scenario, as far as I'm concerned.