User blog:SpaceWeather/Perhaps There's a Better Solution

Okay, so most of us have seen it recently. The blog which calls for a vote on whether or not I should be elected to adminship, has raised issues that have been avoided for some time since I've been here. This has caused a chai reaction of discussions and even arguments amongst our own administration staff. Now I understand that the issues which were brought up did need to be given attention... but did it really have to degenerate into a pissing contest over who has the bigger role here? Snide remarks and flat out insults being tossed around at eachother. I also understand that some admins may not get along, that's perfectly damn fine, but do not allow the wiki to suffer because you share personal animosities towards one another. Being an admin is about making this wiki the best possible place it can be, not carrying out petty arguments that hurt us all. If you'd like to take these conversations to a private place that's fine, but stop displaying them for everyone on the wiki to see. Now I know that most of the admins aren't involved in this, I apologize if you find offense in my words, but I thought this really was neccesary.

Now if we can all put aside those personal animosities I just mentioned then perhaps we can address the more important issue at hand, what's helpful for the wiki. We all know a certain admin does a large protion of the work here, that's indisputable. We also know other admins do try and do their part, whether through chat or through the wiki itself, to help this cause. I think the one major issue that's been hindering the progress of all these wiki helping activities is a grave lack of communication. Now I could be wrong aout this, but I rarely see the admins coordinate with one another to tackle issues. Usually one admin expresses a concern and the others follow with their own input on the situation, many times disagreements occur. Most times when disagreements occur other users jump in and give their own input on the disagreement (like what I'm doing currently) and it continues from there. Perhaps just once the admins can sit down with eachother in a private location and just talk out issues they have. I understand that it'd take planning and effort to do this with everyone having their own agendas in real life, but I think it'd be so worth it. Just a civil discussion on how y'all can work better together to improve how smoothly the wiki runs.

I think what I'm trying to say is that everyone really just needs to calm down and talk this out civily, something which rarely happens from what I've seen. No snide remarks, no underhanded comments, no double meanings, just a straight forward discussion. I think everyone here would like to see that honestly.

So yeah, I can tell that this blog comes off as very self-righteous on my own part... but I don't care. This is just what I think needed to be said and just a suggestion about how to better the future for everyone here. So yeah... thanks for reading.