Board Thread:The Seven Seas Court/@comment-4619254-20180919232913

been a while, SSC, but your self-proclaimed leader is back

So, let's talk about the [//gamersfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Gamers_Fanon_Wiki:Policy/Inactive_Staff Inactive Staff Policy]. While a good idea in practice, in actual execution this policy has been abused by a certain someone since it was introduced. My proposal is to change the defnition of what a "major edit" is and, controversially, remove "minor edits" from the ISP altogether.

Why?

Let's take, purely for example, the contributions of one Johnny Goldtimbers. Most of his edits are extremely minor and do not change the page he's editing in any significant way whatsoever. How do I judge this so easily? [//gamersfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Johnny_Goldtimbers?limit=500&target=Johnny+Goldtimbers His contributions.] When you look in a users contrubutions, it shows you easily how big an edit they did was. In green if there were more characters added to the page and in red if there were more removed, next to the date of the page contribution and the page that the user contributed to, there sits a number. I propose we change the definition of a "minor edit" to anything below 100 characters added or removed to a page. Why?

You see, I counted and, by this defnition and when looking at his last 500 contributions, Goldtimbers, by my count, has 21 major edits... since October 2016. For comparison, [//gamersfanon.wikia.com/wiki/Special:Contributions/Captain_Ned_Edgewalker?limit=500&target=Captain+Ned+Edgewalker I have 21 since the beginning of August.]

By removing the ability for administrators to simply change a letter or two on a page that's 5 years old eight times and call it a day, this weeds out the people who actually care from the people who don't want to lose their spot. Or, at the very least, makes it a bit harder for them to stick around.

My proposal is, simply, for a staff member to retain their spot on the team, they have to make a contribution larger than 100 characters added to a page five times a month. If this passes, I also propose that at the beginning of October, all staff members' slates are wiped clean and any possible violations of the ISP under the old rules are revoked under this new rule.

Thanks.

 