Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25979511-20171025235717/@comment-3218221-20171027150105

Sxerks wrote:

As for some of the other more personal comments, most of it is off base and I really don't appreciate the tone. If you are referring to my statements, I am sorry to see that you took them personally. I do not know you 'personally', and nothing I wrote was a personal attack. What I wrote was a summarization of your actions - and inactions - as a sysop and contributor of the wiki, and an assessment of those actions from my perspective as both contributor and personal experience with the sysop role.

May I ask what was off base in my message, Sxerks? The affirmation of your inactivity, the highlighting of your tendency to roll back edits without explanation, or the obersvation that, generally speaking, you do not communicate enough? That this isn't the first time people have pointed out such issues with your conduct as an admin on other wikis?

The fact remains that you still have yet to address any of these concerns, and the longer you put it off the more conspicious that silence becomes. I apologize if you do not appreciate whatever tone you have taken from my messages, but I felt it necessary to speak firmly and matter-of-factly about the state of affairs. I would not want other users to sugarcoat their opinions if they had problems with me, and it seems to me that you would want the same. Mollycoddling would get us nowhere, and I am sure you would not want me to mollycoddle. No one wants that. I am writing to you as one sysop to the other. One contributor to the other. One user to the other.

Don't take this as a personal attack. It isn't. Do take it as constructive criticism, because it is that. If something I wrote was off base, please, point them out to me. This can't be a discussion until you directly engage with the points we are making and respond directly to those points. We are asking for it to be a discussion, but a discussion requires participation on your part just like administrating a wiki does. Participation in a discussion can't be "responding to some points and not the others," just as administrating a wiki can't be "only responding to messages now and then and occasionally rolling back edits without explanation."

Participation in a discussion also isn't really, "Writing one message at around 11 PM EST/4 AM GMT and then disappearing for an entire day." It's not much of a discussion when we end up waiting around for upwards of a day for the most important interlocuter to show up and make one statement before disappearing.

Talk to us, and stop ignoring the points you don't like. Please. We want to talk with you. I want to talk with you. Okay?