Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5821891-20140407020150/@comment-5679696-20140407215657

Please don't feel that way, the staff members are trying and have improved a lot since the Staff Surveys were created. I don't want to speak for anybody but me without having a previous agreement about it, but I think it is fair to say in name of every admin that we really do not want any user to feel that way. Your opinions are as important as everyone else's. Don't think that we don't read all of your complaints and suggestions because we, at least I do, try to check on all of them.

I think you might have noticed a LOT of consensus-reaching activity going on lately about stuff, and the final decisions were taken according to what the majority of the users agreed on.

But you have to understand that staff is here for a reason. XD If there was literally all up to community consensus, then such a thing as administrators wouldn't exist, in my opinion. Some community values and ideas are just not suitable for the kind of project wikia offers.

So, what's going on here is everyone trying to contribute in the most democratic way possible to the wiki wether it is as viewers, editors or users with special rights. It is everyone's place to have opinions on certain aspects, such as the way in which articles should be dealt with (counterparts, formats, galleries, list of pages, etc.), but you have to understand that your opinions will not always be the final decision, and that sometimes that decision might have already been taken.

I assume we all appreciate all of your ideas and suggestions. Please let me/us know if you feel differently again, and I/we will either give a reasonable explanation to why a decision was taken or start a new consensus for the community to vote.

Wow, that's a long post! XD If any part of it offends know it was not my intention! Thanks, and happy editing! :D