Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-17114085-20150830121136/@comment-3293219-20150901180111

Okay, so my response to Wyvern might seem like it's just a snide remark but in truth there's more to it than that. The truth is, that now that the community is larger, a lot more work is needed to keep it together, work that often goes unseen.

The trolls that Harold mentioned (assuming that they are Skyrim90000 and Raz) didn't just 'get bored and go away,' I had to stay up for hours, work at 8AM and work with several people to get screenshots of their misbehavings in order to build a case against them. I've worked with Sunny and others several times to investigate and fix issues to prevent them overflowing and becoming a tsunami of drama.

I don't think that most people realise this but it's most certainly true, I need another admin like me, someone who's often in chat and well versed in the community. Though Harold does spend quite a bit of time in chat, I feel like he isn't as well rooted as Sunny, who has connections with most of the major sub-communities here. I can also say that Kool Khajiit has little interractivity with the community as a whole, again, this isn't a criticism or a strike against him but it took the guy something like four months to notice the first anniversary events, which probably shows how involved he is.Not only that but the timezones make perfect sense.

Laz is excellent at maintaining the wiki, I'd say that he's on par with Harold and is even better than me at it, in many respects but I still don't think that he's as involved as Sunny is and I imagine that he wouldn't make my workload, in regards to sorting out the issues that me and Sunny have resolved, hell she brought most of them to my attention, so I definitely couldn't do it on my own.

Giving Laz more tools for editing articles can only be a good thing, he can be far more effecient with his contributions and organizing things and I think that the same could be said for Sunny in regards to the chat and with the forums and other community aspects.

I like to think that, so far, the staff of this wiki aren't like police officers, more like gardeners, trimming bushes and pruining them and occasionally handing a kid their ball back or chasing off the odd daisy picker with a chainsaw. Unless anyone could argue that this is no longer the case, I don't see how having more admins can do any harm. It'll make my life a lot easier, keeping things from going to pott in the chat, it'll make Harold and KK's life easier, with maintaining if you have a machine like Laz on the job and it'll allow me to go to sleep at 11PM, instead of forcing me to stay up till 2AM, trying to interrogate the three stooges.

I do think that five admins are necessary and I'd feel a lot better about sleeping a little earlier if I knew that both Sunny and Laz were on the job. I think that Wyvern is completely wrong, we can't function with three admins, we'd barely last a week and though we could do a good job with four, I definitely think that we could do a superb job with five.