Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-5939269-20160919170459/@comment-25546049-20160919195319

Protanly wrote: Ballistic Planet wrote: I'm just gonna give my two cents and say that I don't like this system, as it doesn't have a standard to go off of. With our current system, though mainspace edits are a mediocre (and controversial) standard for determining activity, it still is a standard none-the-less. And if there were to be a new system, I want there to be a similar standard. Saying that someone is "worthy" feels really baseless and flimsy to me.

As for these basis', for Chat Mod it could be something like "hours on chat", or chat activity (how active are you on chat?). Though this could get messy if we throw Discord into the mix. For Discussion Mods, it could be how active are they on the forums? Do they participate on multiple boards or just fun and games?

Basically what I want to say here is that instead of making standards more invisible, I'd rather have them at the forefront, just in a different way, more pertaining to the staff position.

What would be your ideal version of standards in this case? I'd definitely like to hear your in depth thoughts about this. As stated in the example, Chat Mod would need a minimum amount of hours on chat to be promoted. Or chat activity.

Discussion Mods would be how active they are on the Forums, as well as if they're active on multiple forums or not. (being active on "Fun and Games" or is fine, but you should really be active on discussion forums too for instance) Maybe keep the forum minimum post requirement, too.

For Content Mods, assuming Rollback is removed (and I'm ok with removing it), they'd become more equal to the likes of Chat and Disc Mods. The hierarchy would go B-Crat>Admin>Chat Mod=Disc Mod=Content Mod.

Additionally, since Content Mod is mainspace edit focused, there should be a minimum mainspace edit requirement for them. I propose 300 Mainspace edits. It's not easy to obtain if you're not dedicated to editing, but it's still reasonable to obtain if you are dedicated.

Admins are kind of seen as the "Jack-of-all-trades" if you will. I feel like in order to be an Admin, you should have either:

A) Two out of the three positions below it, as it is a Jack-of-all-trades position.

B) Meet the requirements for two out of three. This is for fringe cases like Uselessguy, so they still have the option to jump straight to Admin if the wikia agrees so.

B-Crat of course needs to have Admin as a prerequisite. I'd say increase the amount of time needed on the wikia from nine months to one year. Being a B-Crat is the highest honor on the wiki, and nine months (at least to me) feels way too short.

Besides that, maybe revise an minimal requirement to go for a staff position in the first place. Maybe have a general mainspace requirement, but make it much lower (like 50 ms edits to go for a position, to show that you're serious about helping). And a minimal time requirement (like, two months?) before you could even run for it, too. This goes in addition to the other position specific reqs, but it'd be a solid baseline.