User blog comment:Bigrika/This Wiki has a problem.../@comment-30559258-20180119033852/@comment-10233964-20180119080230

Honestly... I don't even know where to start right now. Let me collect my thoughts. It makes absolute sense that Madame needed a way of contacted you and would ask for that. But I really do not see the point in doing that via DeviantART to start with. You could've just said you would rather not post it publicly and then you two could've still went to DeviantArt or Discord or I don't really care. But the fact that NOONE was told that S/he was denied and then, on top of that, those who got chosen got told somewhere else instead is just absolutely not how something like this usually goes down. Again, it was all made public so it should also be solved public. In my opinion, the first thing that should've been done is telling those who did not get the job, that they, well, did not get it. Only then should those who where choosen be informed about that. And the latter should also happen no sooner than that moment the admin has time to make a public announcement about her decision. Everything else is just really shady.

And the moment you said that you weren't the only one chosen I KNEW who the other one was without even looking it up first (I did, to get confirmation though). And this honestly makes this whole decision process by Madame even more shady and biased. I mean yes, she was the only admin present so in the end it was her decision and that is fine, it's her right. But telling us that "Other users can agree or disagree to any existing applications" and then decide all by her self, choosing Friends of her that, sorry, I will say it now, were just as active as she herself in the past few months (and with that I mean hardly) is just...it's a no-no. I want to point out that I still do not think that this makes you or Jade a bad admin in the end. I stand by the point that I honestly think that most of the applicants were suitable based on the application and what I know about them alone. Activity-wise...not so much though, so I really hope you won't "take too much time" for whatever change you are planning because every day without any announcements or even you guys finally start doing things instead of just talking about it, will just prove my concerns right.

I am aware that Madame has more than this wiki to run. But honestly, it's her own fault. She choose to do so. So she also should have time for all of them equally. When this wiki was still active but things like Monster of the Month had already been abandoned, I already thought of offering my help. You know what prevented me from doing so? I had another huge project going on, that I was admin of and I did not know If I would have enough time to handle another one. I thought it wouldn't be fair to ask for a spot that I may not even be able to manage properly due to time management. I did not want to be the one who "became admin just to sleep on that position" as I know by heart how important it is, that the admin team is active and provide activities to keep their users active, interested and happy. And now my concern is that, since you two weren't really active lately and still have not come around to let anyone know that you have been elected...well...it's rather more chosen because nobody had a saying in that except Madame, that this is exactly what will happen. That we now have three hardly active admins instead of one which would help nobody and surely not this wiki. I really hope that you guys can prove me wrong though.

I know that fixing something that broken will take time. The big project I talked about earlier, was also something very broken that needed fixing. And because it took a while I had a bunch of angry users calling me out as someone not living up to the promises I've made, even though I made a bunch of changes and managed to rise activity again. But I was communicative about it. I posted what was to be done. I asked for input. And I run the page almost singlehandedly because the old team I adopted together with the site, was an inactive bunch, so I took over their jobs as well, which is why it was so demanding that I didn't believe I could handle this Wiki as well to begin with. It took a lot of time and...honestly....guts, since they also were friends, to tell them that I won't be doing this anymore and that they either have to become active again or will be replaced. I lost a bunch of friends that day. And almost an entire team. But it had to be done. For the sake of my health and for the sake of the site. I got a new team out of truly active users that were still interested in a good fate for the site and things immediately got better. So yeah. You don't have to tell me that because I know by bloody experience. But just, for the love of it, talk to us. Don't make plans by yourself. Maybe we, the community might not like whatever plan you come up with that you then try to force upon us. We had no chance to choose our new admins, they were forced on us also, and you see how this played out in the end. So just freaking tell us what you want to do. Give us a choice this time.