User blog:Voxelplox/Our Mess

We all like to think the people here are mature, but I'd like to start off by saying that is not the case. We each contribute drama here. Some more then others. The main problem we face is not Pearson, but each other. Each of us are strong and out-spoken and have large opinions of each other. Half of the community utterly hates the other. This isn't productivity.

We can't blame these issues on any particular group or person, of course some of us here contribute more drama then the others, however we need to all chill out and rethink how this wiki manages itself. We are driving away productive users with this drama. How are we going to resolve these issues?

Everybody has the perception we need more administrators, I think that is '''false. '''You blame Kat and Step for being inactive, along with Law and Jarod, however if they are inactive and Kat and Step left, then why are we in such a hurry for new admins? We would of had the same activity among admins before they left, so why are we in such a hurry for more admins? I think the reason for that is some of us here merely want to become administrators themselves. I can't blame them, but they're actions wouldn't be beneficial to the wiki.

I think we need to reconsider how we run this wiki, do we want to give more power to the unstable community, or make it clear that this isn't the place to screw around. We need to become more strict, and not put up with crap. We need to have respect, and make sure users respect admins, and admins respect users. I think what we need is to cut the crap, and get serious. Why are we making a huge fuss over a promotion request? 10 support, 9 oppose? It ends when it reaches 10 votes. If a more "favored" user was nominated, and was in the same situation I'm sure there would be no diffiiculty. There is bias, but it isn't coming from the administrators.

My views on what should be done are this, -im not suggesting rules, just a rough idea-


 * A no tolerance policy, we will ban vandals, spammers, and anyone that causes excessive drama will be banned forever.


 * We need to stop the crap and work together. Together we can turn the wiki around. Isn't it disgraceful that Wikia even considers the wiki drama filled? We can easily fix that


 * Cut the egos in half - we have huge egos here, and that seriously needs to be dealt with.


 * Respect - users need to respect their admins or its a trainwreck.


 * Making promotion votes requiring a certain amount of time to pass, and possibly not have a set amount of votes required ( vote lasts 3 days, majority wins at end ) this way we won't have any problems over an unfair vote.