User blog comment:Zane T 69/Wiki Improvements/@comment-778071-20160626023744/@comment-5179743-20160626152915

Forums- I can see why you like the Forums, they are quite similar to talkpages. The newer versions are like the message walls. The matters I spoke of where to start a dialogue, I personally don't like the forums. I was asking others for their opinions.

I put the part about Message Walls because another user brought up the matter. I personally, prefer talkpages for userpages and message walls for forums.

Sysops- The position does meet your requirements/obligations, and workload points. Why would this wiki want admins who do nothing of use, while the wiki gets ignored? They gained the communities trust, then threw it away, by ignoring them. The trust of the community is the requirement obligation. Accepting a position and then, as a sign of poor judgement not doing the duties that come with it, are plenty reasons for demotion. I'm saying if they wont use the powers given to them, by the community, for the communities that gave them. They don't deserve them, they betrayed that trust, and left this wiki vulnerable to vandals.

As for the Rollbacks, I knew that. I was advertising the position and benefits so others would apply.

Aaron Swartz logic doesn't apply here. I'v seen wiki's truly thrive with editing restricted to registered/logged-in users. Riordan Wiki being one of them.

The Three Revert rule: Vandals will keep reverting the vandalism a good user removed, even 4 to even 10+ times. It needs to be removed because it punishes the users who remove blatant vandalism. Sometimes for a regular user, to fight vandals, it involves an edit war, of constantly reverting each others edits.

I mean punishing people for large edit summaries? What if its a large edit? What if they only partially reverted an edit, because they don't know how to do the rest, and they explain that in the summary because they're new to the wiki. And don't know another way. Whoever made this rule, wasn't thinking of all the side effects, the innocents that get banned as collateral damage, that the rule restricts the good users from fighting the bad. Under penalty of presumably, a block or ban, that can destroy their chances of ever becoming an Admin/B-Crat!