Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24841964-20150704051540/@comment-25021327-20150706212621

I suppose I may as well weigh in here. The number of inactive admins here is little more than a superficial issue, in my opinion. They don't hurt anything, and are unlikely to return and wreak havoc on the wiki. There is also the possibility that if they do return and find their adminship revoked they will get butthurt as people tend to do. Am I happy that there are a ton of inactive admins? Absolutely not, Will removing them improve the wiki? Probably not. Will removing them harm the wiki? Probably not.

I think a few new active admins would most definitely be good. It would do away with a lot of the red tape and communitaction issues with some stuff. If an admin sees a problem, they can act upon it and solve it. But they way things are lately, we can do just about as much good, and make as much progress with what we've got. If we have intelligent, and invested users, issues will be dealt with regardless of who is, or isn't an admin.

Speaking personally, I've done a lot of stuff here that had nothing to do with being a mod or an admin. You don't need special powers to help new and struggling users, proofread stories, tag stories to be reviewed for deletion, or add content to the wiki. More active and personally invested users can do a lot of good.

To me this issue is a thin veil covering the much larger elephant in the room which from my perspective is that the top tier of wiki staff is uninterested in the wiki. This is by no means a knock to the crats. As anyone knows, especially on the internet, people's lives change, they grow and their interests shift, they have less time etc. The entirety of this admin appointment and removal rests on the shoulders of the wiki's crats, and frankly nobody can really do much about what has been brought up here.

We have a small and humble wiki, and that's fine. I like it here, and I'm mostly fine with the level of action. I think a lot of us would like if there was a bit more activity and excitement around here. Interest comes and goes, and I'd like a greater number of enthusiastic users around here. Would more less admins help accomplish that? Possibly, but that isn;t the sole solution. Enthusiasm can breed enthusiasm, and that's what I think would improve the wiki.

Sorry for going off on a tangent, I guess I got a little unfocussed.