Board Thread:Wiki Management/@comment-4077536-20150522172416

Yes, this is another one of my threads, and I'll allow myself to go a tiny little step further now.

The topic I want to discuss about this time are demotion/blocking threads. First of all, I have always been of the opinion that demotion threads shouldn't even exist; it should be something that should be handled by administrators and bureaucrats, on their own place on the Wiki where they can discuss these things (like an admin portal, but this wiki doesn't have this). But this is my opinion, and I'm not here to suggest that demotion threads should completely dissapear.

Rather, I'm here to propose something else: should only staff members be able to vote in these threads? It sounds radical, and it would obviously exclude me and others from voting (which I personally rarely do), but the staff members are really the ones who should decide whether some should be demoted/blocked or not. Administrators, rollbacks, chat and forum mods all of have an important protective and safety role to the wiki. They are the ones who need to be able to deduce what is threatening to the wiki, and what is not. A rule like this would also potentially make relaxed staff members take their part more seriously.

This wouldn't necessarily cripple the regular users. They should be able to contact an admin or a bureaucrat and express their complaints with another user, and the other side would determine whether a voting about it should be justifiable or not. This could also reduce pointless threads in the Reporting Station, because not everyone will be able to make these threads.

Obviously, everyone would still be able to report people.

Vote, or  for this idea . 