Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26468976-20170629164215/@comment-11987506-20170707011821

"'failing to ajust the staff size because of this reason, and calling doing so 'catastrophic' is a complete neglect of staff duties, simply out of fear of loosing your own rights.'"

Darren, I'm not corrupt or anything. You've worked with me over the past months before your retirement, and you know that I am not someone who cares about user rights that much. If Hype asked me to demote myself, I would do it. I wouldn't retire, threaten to leave or blackmail users. I have a great respect for this community and the users here, and I would contribute here regardless or not if I had rights. I do not have any fear of loosing my own rights. Stop making false and unproved accusations with no evidence.

"'I believe that the main reason that you aren't getting new users, is because of your staff to active user proportion. Why would anyone want to join a wikia where everyone has has rights, that two people should have? This is probably the reason that many users have left as well, because they don't like the size of the staff and the staffs neglect on the issue.'"

Okay, so, do you want us to go back to the times when Douglas was bureaucrat? To the times when every user that joined chat would automatically get chat moderator rights and wouldn't even use them? To the times when users would get chatbanned and blocked for no reason? To the times where immaturity was all over the place? Giving user rights to every user is not a good thing, especially when those users don't use them, at all. Our administration size is not the problem. There are several other reasons why we have a user drought, and you're only considering one side of the story, that isn't even the main problem. And the administration here doesn't neglect issues - when I raised my concerns about the chat spam, the admins went ahead and made a community consensus about it. We've done considerable improvements to the wiki - with community support - and for you to insinuate otherwise is completely false.

"'If you went through all that trouble to get rid of Douglas, then why are you continuing exactly what he was doing?'"

First of all, you have no evidence that what you said is true. And in fact, we've been doing the opposite of what Douglas or the administration then back then. We don't block users for no reason, we aren't immature and we don't promote users for no reason.

"'Like Hype said, 'we have a larger administration now than registered users and autopatrolled users' which is completely ridiculous and is, I am willing to bet, the only reason we are not getting new users. Working 'really hard to reach our current positions' is no excuse to compromise this wikia, and keeping a staff this large has no benefit what so ever.'"

Again, there are other reasons on why we're not getting new users - like the fact the tropics are mostly dead, and also the fact our spotlight hasn't been approved yet. And besides, if keeping a large administration brings no benefit, the same goes for a small, nut-sized administration. If we ever have vandals coming in here, having a larger administration will help, especially if there are few users in the time the vandal attacks - so, there is a benefit, unlike what you just mentioned.

Conclusion, take the other side of the coin into consideration, as it seems you think that our large administration is the reason we're not getting new users and that we're opposed to demote ourselves because we have a "fear" of loosing our rights - and that is mostly, if not completely. false.