Board Thread:Plants vs. Zombies Wiki discussion/@comment-1716189-20150928012119

Well, hello everyone. I fell like this is a big issue on this wiki that needs to be adressed so I'm bringing it up to you, hope it grabs some attention and desn't end up getting closed. Note that this isn't a referandum so I won't be asking any supports or opposes, it simply needs to be discussed. Actually this issue is related to really deep subjects like employer-employee rights, power relationships, slavery, democracy, dictatorships, monarchy, freedom of speech, hate speech physics, revolution, parliments, governments, UN Security council, veto rights etc. But I'll try to keep it as simple as possible, inside the PvZ2 Wikia margins.

You can check the problem I'm talking about here; performed by a bureucrat known as JemCel03. As you can see, a proposal, as meaningless or insignificent as it may be, was voted upon and a decition was made under the regulations of free election laws for PvZ2 Wikia. It was a fair referandum; the participants showed their stances, discussed and voted. Staff members and non-staf PvZ wikians, both voted and had equal amound of representation; one per user, no matter the autority level. At the end, no matter which one, one of the sides collected the majority of votes and according to the rules, that motion needs to be implemented. However, this is where our bureaucrat comes; he ignores the result and vetoes the proposal, not because of a rule says so but solely based on his point of view on the matter. As you can see, HIS stance now became THE LAW and the democratic decition of wikians was completely discarted. Personally I even think that he should get a minor warning for that.

I believe this type of behavior is verily damaging for the foundations of PvZ Wikia. Bureaucrats... Admins... Or any staff member for that matter... They are elected by the wikians to their posts in order to REGULATE the rules, no to ENFORCE their norms on the wiki. If a thread shouldn't be in order according to the rules, then staff members are expected to close the threads with showing the rule as the reasoning, that's perfect. But this... Staff members should not enforce their personal thougts on decition making, never! This is simply damaging the "democracy" here. You may remember a similar issue had occured months ago when Uselessguy vetoed a passed thread on "Profanity on Chat", aplying his martial law over it, which ended up in an unfortunate self-exile for a period of time. In order to avoid from inconveniences like these, laws should be above staff, regulating them too.

tl,dr: I think staff members shouldn't be allowed to close threads according to their own preferences as they are trusted and entitled to their positions by the wikians to enforce the rules of the wiki, maintaining the well-being of things at their level and making sure that all works well. They weren't given the rights to be a dictator as in the Philosopher-King ideal of Platon. They shouldn't govern by their preferences. They should respect the voices of wikians. 