Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27150398-20180513171936

Hello all, since my exams are starting next week I'm going to need to take some time off in order to try and do the best I can in said exams. As a result of this I have made Commander Ghost and Withersoul 235 Bureaucrats and have instructed them to monitor and lead the wiki whilst I am taking my exams. As said exams will occur in 2 separate batches with a break in between them I will display the exact arrangements I have made with Ghost and Wither in terms of who will be managing the wiki at certain points over the coming month.

14th of May - 25th of May - First Batch of Exams (Ghost and Wither will manage the wiki in my absence)

25th of May - 3rd of June - Week Break (I will resume management of the wiki to give Ghost and Wither a break though I probably won't be that active since I'll be spending most of my time revising for my second batch of exams)

3rd of June - 15th of June - Second Batch of Exams  (Ghost and Wither will manage the wiki until my final exam on the 15th of June)

Whilst my exams are taking place I would prefer if you all didn't message me unless it's something that specifically relates to me or if you happen to be an Admin as since Ghost and Wither will be this wiki's Head Admins whilst I am doing my exams there shouldn't be a reason why they can't handle the majority of issues that the community may have during this time. However if you do need to contact me about something please note that it may take me a few days to respond due to me needing to spend the majority of my time revising rather than attending to wiki matters.

Before I go however, I wanted to address a few things about the wiki. The first thing I wanted to address is about Chat. While I understand that a lot of users like going on Discord, since the Chat is meant to be this wiki's public hangout place I would like to encourage the community to use it more often as if it is used more frequently I think it will encourage new users to come on chat more often which is more likely to make said users stay on the wiki for a significant amount of time rather than them just leaving soon after their arrival due to them not feeling that involved with the community.

Another thing I wanted to address is this the lack of blog activity. In the past many of this wiki's users would create a variety of interesting blogs that would receive a decent amount of comments but over the last few months when some of this wiki's more dedicated users began to leave the site and go on Discord the number of blogs created on here began to decrease. However I think it is defintely possible to restore the former popularity of blog posts if the community works together to achieve this goal. To help increase the popularity of blogs I've gone back through this wiki's blog post history and picked out some of the more popular types of blog posts that I think could be made popular once again if the community is willing to make them popular.


 * Match Sales


 * TN Tournaments


 * Q&A's


 * Honest Traliers


 * Fan Fictions

The last topic I wanted to discuss is the 'toxic' new user problem. While many users have left because of this issue I think it isn't quite as bad as people make it out to be. On every wiki there's always going to be some users who don't read the rules and don't get on well with the rest of the community and as far back as I can remember there have always been some users who have fitted this criteria. I think one of the main reasons this issue has become more prominent is because some of this wiki's more popular and mature users left the site at the end of last year and this has allowed some of the wiki's more disruptive users to become prominent in the wikis everyday activity but I think one of the best ways to deal with the situation is to not get bothered by the behaviour of said users and simply report them on the Rule Violation Report. 