Thread:NotLessOrEqual/@comment-27441478-20160506074710/@comment-28584497-20160506110431

Awy, don't take this as a personal attack. I've been observing for a long while now and I've bottled up a ton of criticism for the off-chance I ever actually came back. Since BF5 may very well be WW2-era, that alone would be more than enough to get me out of retirement, so I'm finally going to lay out my grievances.

For one, you enabled all these shitty testbed features that have no place on a professional wiki.

Is this a blog site or an encyclopedia?

I'm considering coming out of retirement just to ream into all this shit, like I did back in the old days.

You guys don't have a vision. You don't have direction. You don't have some kind of conceptualization for what the wiki ought to look like 5 years from now. Myself, Eden, Pedro, and SSD, wanted to make it as professional and Wikipedia-like as possible. We implemented whole systems and policies, none of this half-measure bullshit.

In the year I have been gone, you guys have done literally nothing. I've been quietly watching from the sidelines as a lot of hard work has come undone as the result of inactivity and lax maintenance.

Nobody is cleaning up the files as they come anymore. I spent a lot of time and effort getting that stuff to the point where it was presentable. But we now have tons of uncategorized, unlicensed shit in the uploaded files.

Nobody is really active. The simple fact that there are edits on the recent activity feed dating back to yesterday is evidence enough for this. How many edits are made on a typical day? I guarantee you, the average is not more than 50. And that's a huge shame.

The category system I spent a long time implementing has come undone in a lot of places, and it physically pains me that something I worked so hard on has gone totally neglected.

I've watched as your personal friends have been passed into admin/bureaucrat-ship despite them not being anywhere near as active or productive as real administrators or bureaucrats ought to be on the ride of a single vote. Your vote. Austin, this is not your personal playpen. Single-person votes should never be allowed, and it's a shame that it was allowed to happen because our active editors are so divorced from us that this place is hardly even a community anymore.

Since I'm on the topic, I'll go ahead and throw out an idea: maybe, if only one person votes on a subject, then it should be considered a failed vote instead of automatically passing. And while we're at it, why not reassess the last couple administrators you passed into the position, take a look at how they've actually performed, and make an informed decision based on that. This guy might be deserving of the position but this guy most definitely is not.

And on a deeply related tangent: where the fuck is the communication? Where are all the forum posts? Where are the ideas, the experiments? Where are the alternatives to the shit that Wikia craps out on the daily? We didn't need wiki achievements because our awards system is incredibly robust. We didn't need article comments because they're incredibly unprofessional. We didn't need the 'updated' talk pages or forums because they're not fucking modular. You can't really do anything with them. They're too limited. That's why they got shot down so many times in the past, and all the gripes we had with them back then still apply because these things still have all the same problems.

Stop making excuses, stop being defensive. Acknowledge that the wiki is not in a state anybody wants it to be. The whole point of being a bureaucrat is to do everything ourselves -- THAT'S WHY YOU HAVE THE FUCKING POSITION. It gives you all the tools and permissions you need to do it all. You are supposed to be a model editor and member of the community.

I'm so tempted to immediately revert the changes to the forums and talk pages, and create a proper forum on the subject where I can lay out for the third time since they were devised by Wikia the exact and precise reasons for why they suck so bad compared to the traditional format.