Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-4839682-20131031001247/@comment-11464223-20131031042337

Also, if I may provide some advice:

I've also admin'd things before: Two forums, and an online game, off the top of my head, though there may have been more at other point.

Now, this is something rather big, if you will, IDK if you guys would be interested in/want to try it, but I've found that in forum communities dedicated to something (a game, a show, whatever), it REALLY bolsters the community if the forums have a large section dedicated to things OTHER than whatever the entire forum is for. To give some examples for other things that could have forums: Introductions, General Discussion, Forum Games, other TV shows, Serious Discussion, whatever. The point would be to help people get to know each other more, so we actually feel like a community, so we know one another on some level. The way things are now, nobody knows anything about anyone.

This is the internet. People are going to have different mannerisms, different quirks, different whatevers. You have to be lenient with littler things, the real harmless ones at least.

If you have a problem with a particular someone or at least if someone is doing something in any form wrong, try to contact them in private somehow, away from the chunk of the group. At least on their profile, if there's no such thing as private messages on here (honestly don't know lol), somewhere away from the bulk of the crowd, that way they don't feel as alienated and it's more personal-if you do it in public, you feel like tyrants, or bullies, while if it's personal, you feel like you're just trying to help. For example-deleting someone's shit, go ahead and do it, but perhaps tell them why on their profile. Call them out on things somewhere more personal.

Keep in mind-you're a staff member, you're an example to lead and someone who polishes things up. Your attitude should almost never be about punishing someone, and almost always be about helping someone. The only instance where you should be out to get someone is if they're an account created purely for trolling, or if their intentions are clearly malicious. If someone had good intentions or is a regular poster and contributor, your goal isn't to take them away from the community, your goal is to help them fit in better.

I'll post again if I can think of more things, and again I reiterate that I don't know how realistic any of this is as I've admin'd other kinds of forums, not wiki forums, and these strike me as at least slightly different. I know nothing about wikis and shit XD. I'm just trying to help.