Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-25979511-20171025235717/@comment-3218221-20171026002556

I'm one of the contributors that has been discussing and monitoring the current situation, and Sxerks, I'm going to chime in with my own concerns as both a contributor to this wiki and administrator of the three other Naritaverse wikis (the Baccano!, Vamp!, and Etsusa Bridge wikis).

It is not enough to be the founder or more senior sysop on a wiki and assume authority when one is not an active contributing presence on a wiki. A wiki is a communal, collaborative effort, and everyone must do their part.

That includes you.

It would be extremely motivating for users to see you, the Founder, actively pitching in with edits and maintenance around the wiki - but you aren't. You ignored all of Chrome's points in her message: that you revert edits without explanation; that you are close-minded and decline requests and suggestions without sufficient reason; that you do not communicate. It is not motivating to see an administrator have multiple periods of long inactivity, only to pop up now and then with, "I'm still here everyday..."

There's "I'm still here," and there's "resting on your laurels." There's "I'm still here as an active contributing presence," and "I'm still here, sort of, monitoring the wiki from my emails, kind of." (And if you are here everyday, then may I ask why you didn't respond to Chrome's message within twenty-four hours of her posting it?)

If I sound a little exasperated, it's because I am. You say that you are busy. We're all busy, of course, and we are more than willing to be understanding and flexible when sysops explain their periods of inactivity (which you don't) provided those periods of inactivity are within reason (which yours...well...). You say you "don't have the time to add anything that isn't already being done by someone else at a faster pace" on your message wall. That is, frankly, absurd.

There is always work to be done on a wiki. That's not an adequate reason. That's not even an adequate excuse.

This isn't the first time people have expressed concerns over your inactivity as a sysop, Sxerks. Don't you recall?

All we are asking for is this: open communication, and an open mind. A transformation from inactivy to activity, however gradual it may be (but not too gradual). You say that you are busy: if real life is keeping you so busy that you are unable to provide the wiki with the time and effort that is expected of a sysop, then it might be time for you to consider formally taking a backseat role instead of what you have been doing, which is "taking a backseat role but calling yourself the driver anyway."

Please, please, have an open mind. Listen. Above all else, a good sysop listens to the concerns of the community and responds to them accordingly.

Let's work together, shall we?