Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-26468976-20170629164215/@comment-28470696-20170707004208

DarrenDude wrote: StrawberryMaster wrote: "DarrenDude wrote: I know I am inactive here so my opinion doesn't count, but my advice is to have 1 crat, 1 admin, and one RB/CM for a wiki this small, and let all users participate in staff decisons. That way, everyone can still run the place and there is still a staff in place."We don't need to do that, honestly. We worked really hard to reach our current positions and having an "administration" of three users in a wiki as large as HHW won't be beneficial. By having only one bureaucrat, one administrator and one rollback/chat moderator, that would be catastrophic. Bureaucrats like Garfield and MH, administrators like Akio, junior admins like Mario and rollbacks like Chap would turn into users with no user rights. Letting all users participate in all discussions would not be a good idea, especially when it's an acute situation. HHW has roughly 15 active users, and I've seen many more wikis, with active users in the hundreds, that have less staff than we have. Almost all of the active users have staff rights, and although this is mainly because a lot of users have been leaving, failing to ajust the staff size because of this reason, and calling doing so "catastrophic" is a complete neglect of staff duties, simpily out of fear of loosing your own rights.

 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.

 If you went through all that trouble to get rid of Douglas, then why are you continuing exactly what he was doing? Letting everyone participate in staff discussions wouldn't change a thing, because basically, everyone already has rights.

 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.

 Being that there seems to be no facts at all supporting that a large staff would be beneficial, I find your argument rather invalid.

I think that your statement that users aren't joining because there is "too many staff members" completely false and lacking of evidence. So what? It in no way changes the wiki. It in no way changes our personalities. That's what matters, not "the staff amount."

Also, I don't think you would like to lose your rights either if you were forcefully demoted, and it looks like you are using your leverage as "a no rights" user to attack others.