User blog:Tamabot/Checking in

Some of you may remember me, others may not.

Anyway I'm here to explain a few things

but first
 * 1) Might come back to potco, if a nice update appears.
 * 2) Not asking for anything just for you to read this blog post

Anyway

The current voting system
I’m not sure how much my view counts here because I have been gone for a number of months, explained in a blog.

Now if anyone here does history some of you may have read up on the Miner’s Strikes in the 1970s in the United Kingdom. This is when the unions had the power to stop the country from working; this is not how something should be run.

The SSC, when we discussed a reformat for it a year or two back, we wanted it to be a place to share your views; but without the constant pressure that we couldn’t do anything without a backlash from the community, unban requests dominated the wiki, demotion requests could be made by an user; and with just 20 votes of support a member of staff who they didn’t like could be gone.

Early on when I was an admin, I did try and push for more community involvement; polls shouldn’t decide promotions or demotions, there should be a way for you guys to explain a vote. You guys were much like congress, in which we put ideas that you gave us forward. That was good, I guess until you guys abused that power by posting requests for things you know should never happen, requests for unbans of people who had seriously violated wikia’s TOU and the wiki’s local rules.

So that’s why the current voting system exists, and why admins have the power to veto requests that haven’t been moderated first



