Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-27150398-20191210171306

Hello everyone, there are several things I’d like to talk to you all about today.

First things first, just over a week ago me and the other staff members were having a conversation on the DBF Staff Discord Server about reintroducing the system of having the community voting on new Rules, Guidelines and wiki features through polls (see these two threads as examples of how we used on vote on new Rules, Guidelines and wiki features through using polls https://deathbattlefanon.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:397003 and https://deathbattlefanon.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:444682) and after debating about the issue we have decided to reintroduce this system again. The reason this has happened is because me and the other staff members want to give the whole community a chance to give their say on new Rules, Guidelines and wiki features and vote on whether or not they should be introduced on the site rather than solely allowing the staff team to decide on these topics instead.

How this new system would work is that new Rules and Guidelines and wiki features will be first discussed on the Staff Server, and then voted on by the staff members in the parliament channel of said server and if we vote in favour of said Rules, Guidelines and wiki features, a thread can then be created regarding these Rules, Guidelines and wiki features so the community can discuss and vote on them. If the community votes in favour of them, they can then be added to the Rules and Guidelines page (in the case of new Rules and Guidelines) or implemented (in the case of wiki features).

Secondly, I would like to encourage you all to get more involved with how the wiki is run by suggesting that if you think any Rules and Guidelines should be added, modified or removed or you think a new feature should be added to the wiki, you should create a thread about their suggestion on the Wiki Management Forum Board or talk about it on the Wiki Suggestions channel on the wiki’s Discord Server. If me or one of the other Admins thinks your suggestion is realistic, we can then bring it up on the parliament channel of the Staff Server for us to vote on and if its approved, it can then be placed on a thread for the community to vote on and then implemented if you are all in favour of the suggestion.

Additionally, I’d like to remind everyone about the different methods of being promoted. In terms of how users can get promoted, the best way is to go on the Promotion Requests page and nominate yourself or another user for a position as long as long as you or said other user meet all the Compulsory Requirements for the position in question and the maximum required number of users in that position at once hasn’t already been reached (though exceptions to these required amounts may be made depending on the circumstances). Said page has only been used every now and again so it would be good to see more users in the community use it on a more frequent basis. I will also pick out users myself and offer them promotions from time to time as well if I feel that they would do good in a particular position, but I would prefer if the community didn’t become too reliant on this method of promotion either.

Lastly,while I apologise for not announcing this sooner, I wanted to give a shoutout to Halloween7 who has been promoted to the position of Chat Moderator. '''Please feel free to congratulate him down below! '''

If you have any questions about any of the topics I’ve discussed, feel free to post them down below as well.

Big out. 