User blog comment:Gideoncrawle/ADMIN BLOG POST: Revisiting Rules, and The Future of Featured Quote/@comment-3220924-20120625012618/@comment-3220924-20120625214924

@Gideon - I never said that some admins abuse their authority. The admins do a fine job of following the rules. I do, however think that some of the admins don't take their title seriously. When I said that some of our current admins "use it as an excuse of authority," I meant that some of our current admins just use the title so they can enforce rules, but they don't fully understand what really makes an admin. An admin is supposed to overlook the wiki, and if there's a problem, they're supposed to fix that. So, yes, an admin is supposed to enforce rules, but, at the same time, an admin is also supposed to be active, and communicate with the users. However, I feel that some of our admins rarely talk with us, and only communicate with the other admins. I know for a fact that some of our users have been ignored by some of the admins on chat.

As for administrator productivity, I think that you're doing a fine job, Gideon, but even you have said before that it would be nice to have a little help in cleaning up this wiki. However, productivity can be as simple as being active. Most of our admins are not active, not on the wiki nor on chat. Being productive can be as easy as communicating with our users.

@Sprink - So, basically, you feel that some have not been doing their part, but you don't want to demote them because that would demote the admin population? Then, why don't we just hire new admins? New admins who are actually active, and will actually help you and Gideon clean up the wiki, or update the front page for example. Exactly my point right there, the work is usually put on you and Gideon, and if we had new active admins, the work would be divided, and you and Gideon would not have to work so hard. Yes, that's true, the wiki has been running smoothly lately, but what if this Wiki encounters a major problem in the future, where will the admins be? We should have active admins before anything happen, not wait for something to happen and then get new admins.

I'm sorry you feel offended, Sprink. That was not my intention, and if I truly offended you, I apologize. I wasn't the only one who wrote that, and the group planned on taking that part out, as it was proved not to be true. I copied and pasted it from our sample but forgot to take out that part. I'm sorry for that. It's obvious that our current admins didn't become admins because of close ties, but we do think that some of our admins ignore our users, and only focus on the other admins. I can tell you for sure that some of our users have been ignored by some of our current admins.