Board Thread:Off-Topic Fun/@comment-4839682-20131031001247/@comment-4839682-20140309214531

I would just like to add my two cents in:

Prince is rather blunt. I don't think he was being rude, just blunt. :D However, we (admins) do tend to get a lot of "orders", people literally telling us to "do this" or "fix that" or "this is wrong somebody fix it" and it can get quite tiring. I think we're all guilty of not realizing how something we type say might look to other people. (It's the curse of the Internet; I can't hear your tone of voice in text). It may look rude, but is intended to be matter of fact.

I can't speak for Prince, only myself. I know that, personally, at times I feel like someone is trying to order me around with something, as if maintaining the whole site is my personal responsibility. Now, I know that some of that comes from users/readers being nervous about editing or making suggestions, feeling that they may be doing something wrong, not understanding the rules, or not wanting their edits to be changed. Some of that is the fault of the staff, myself included. We all want the wiki to be the very best, and we can be obsessive about it. XD But it's that very thing that I'm trying to correct, in starting threads and discussions and trying to reach out and thank and encourage editors more.

But we're all still human, and we all get frustrated and tired.