User blog comment:Ananasz/My First Blog/@comment-2047157-20120416013657

As much as this is a in-depth criticism at admins like myself and the wikis, here is my counter argument:

We can't control the amount of crap that flows into the wiki because we lack an established standard of quality, despite certain templates that say we have a "high" quality standard. And even if we did establish one now, we would have to bring (or delete) the fourteen hundred or so pages that need work up to that bar. As much as I would love to do the latter, it's simply too time consuming of a task to do.

Never did I (or most of the other admins) revert your edits, we take the time to evaluate said edits and make proper judgement. However, I'm certain there are a few out there who are more concerned about raw edit count *cough* badges *cough* then properly maintaining a source of knoweldge about the show. One of the worst offenders is now an admin, and despite [http://User blog:Xydux/User of the Year! claims] that said admin rightfully earned every badge they received. I refuse to believe that someone who made 10,000 edits in six months had good editing intentions when the longest serving member made 10,000 edits in three years. But I digress...

I suggest we do away with the "achievement" system altogether, but it seems most everyone is too egotistical to follow through. To say that removing it would fully solve our problem of a constant flow of stupid edits is an exaggeration, it would cut the flow down to a trickle however. Considering that without a valueless carrot dangling in their nose, editors would have more time to make a rational thought and would gain nothing (like they do now) out of a stupid edit.

Admittedly, I raised a suggestion to protect all the pages from editing, however that was when all the admins retired so nobody could muck up things while we were gone. That said, we cannot lock a page so that only a specific user and the admins can edit it. We either allow everyone, protect against anons and newbies, or allow admin editing only. I have protected a few of your fanon wiki pages, and am willing to lock more if requested.

Now to answer the question of "where all the mods are." One has a medical condition, two have just have left (but one has just returned) and I have dial-up internet, which makes editing very difficult. Jspyster1 is the only mod who consistently shows (and able) to serve the wiki. If you want to become a mod, ask him, we would appreciate someone who can get things done and has the authority to do so.

You didn't seem to be pulling too many punches, so neither have I.