Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27150398-20180624192912

Hello everyone, as stated in my previous thread I am going to be on holiday from Monday 25th June - Thursday 5th July with my friends and while I will have my phone with me it’s going to be difficult for me to attend to any wiki-related matters whilst I am holiday so like when I was doing my exams I will be leaving Commander Ghost and Withersoul 235 in charge of leading the community while I am away. After this holiday is over I shouldn’t have a need to take any more absences from the wiki for at least a while yet and will be able to continue my efforts to improve the wiki without any interruptions. However, whilst I am on holiday I would prefer if you all didn’t message me unless said message specifically concerns me or if you happen to be a staff member as both Ghost and Wither will be able to deal with the vast majority of issues during this time.

Before I go however, there are a couple of things I wanted to address, the first thing being the issues with chat. All of the addons that previously disappeared from the chat interface have now been added back so the issue has been resolved.

The second thing I wanted to talk about was some new staff guidelines that I have introduced, whilst I would have liked to have made a separate thread on them before I left since I still need to sort some things out before my flight I’ll just talk about them on here. I’ve tried to answer a lot of potential questions about the rules when composing them but if you any of the other staff members do have any questions on them me and the other admins will answer them whenever we can.

8. If a user requests for you to delete a comment or a chain of comments please only do so if the comments in question go against the Rules and Guidelines or are “delete” comments. While some requests to remove comments from a page may seem reasonable, the staff team’s ability to delete comments could lead to some users taking advantage of the ability and constantly requesting that particular comments that don’t go against the Rules and Guidelines be removed just because they dislike them.
 * To be clear staff members are allowed to delete their own comments if they desire to, but this ability shouldn’t be taken for granted.
 * This guideline only applies to Discussion Mods, Superordinates, General Moderators, Admins and Bureaucrats.

9. When first joining the staff team it is highly recommended that you create a FanFiction.net account so that you can receive private messages related to the wiki from staff members who may not use Discord. While said messages would previously be discussed in the wiki’s chat due to the fairly faulty nature of it’s private chat feature it is better that private messages between staff members be discussed on said site rather than anywhere else. However once you’ve sent said staff member a private message on said site you should tell them that you have done so on their wall since FanFiction.net dosen’t automatically notify you when you receive a private message.

10. When contacting the Head Admin via message wall, it is highly recommended that you always do so on your own correspondence thread as they are meant to act as places where you contact the Head Admin about any wiki-related matters and the creation of other separate threads for different topics just undermines the purpose of the correspondence threads.
 * It should be noted that staff members will not punished if they contact the Head Admin via message wall outside of their correspondence thread accidentally, if this happens they will just be directed to their correspondence thread and told that they should use it instead when contacting the Head Admin in the future. However if a staff member continually contacts the Head Admin outside of their correspondence thread despite being notified about it in the past they will be given a Cease and Desist and punished if necessary.

To expand what I have said in guideline 9, since quite a few staff members agreed with it in this thread, could I ask that all staff members please create a FanFiction.net account by 5th July so that we can send Private Messages to each other more easily though it should be noted that won’t be send any messages or update your profile within the first 24 hours of creating your account. If any staff members have any strong objections to this please let me know on my wall and we can discuss any issues once I get back.

Big out 