Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-27546869-20171113180458

During August, I created the Hall of Wiki Users page to simply acknowledge people who contributed to the site a lot with the amount of edits being a factor to that claim. Originally, if you had 3k+ edits, and an important contribution in-mind like making a few pages making large improvements to pages, you would message me or Coolan28 that you had 3k+ edits and contributed largely to the site, and then from some investigation in your contribution log, you would maybe be added to it with the inclusion of your username, profile picture, role, and quote.

I was the one that put those rules in place but then later removed the requirement to claim any important contribution because of my laziness, and obviously that later sparked a whole lot of controversy over who really deserved it because of another issue; shitposting. It was only a few weeks after a completely forgotten about that page due to stress in school work and then that whole drama with St. Bob. However, clouds of flame wars that stemmed from it were still brewing...

The Shitposting Problem + Solution

People had feared a whole lot of people being included on the list because they gained their edits from posting a whole lot of trash, I was foolish enough to believe that commenting did not grant you 1 edit on your profile, by my experience I later found out it actually did, and that was a core problem for people in the page.

I'll tell you one thing, most people I added on the list were due to my long experiences with them (with edits still being in-mind) people including Irrisinn (Drawmeitis), Daxter4007 (L0rd0rder or whatever), InfiniteBread, and some others. These people were the first in my mind that deserve a spot. Others were added through trust because I never seen them get edits granted through shitposts and the opinions from the people did not make me think else.

I can add back the requirement for an important cotnribution to eliminate any potential spot for shitposters. And if all else fails, people can report to me sketchy patterns in their log of contributions (like mindless posts), and maybe through enough examinations I can remove them from the list.

Coolan28's Vote Bias

I have to give Coolan props for helping me through management for the page, even though I did none of it, he did give me a helping hand and I think him for that. However, his handling toward this problem was off. He created a poll in the announcements page (for all to get in their notifications) whether or not the Hall of Wikia users page should be removed. This was an enormous bias because

1. He's considering opinions from people who are most likely not on the list, which would possibly spawn from a whole lot of jealousy.

2. Most people don't really care anyway, and it's making the result inaccurate.

I kind of feel he should have done this after I said about this problem, and I kind of feel this will certainly have a negative impact on the page due to his upperhand in the opposing direction.

Before mods should roll out the big guns, this page should be handled thoroughly in the way I talked about before, then we should decide if it should continue or just have it bite the dust... 