Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-9154802-20170810221430/@comment-28470696-20170810230446

Alissa the Wise Wolf wrote: Money Hurricane wrote: Hello Alissa,

I am not very active on this wiki, but I decided to say something. I know you are very passionate about Tornadoes and severe weather in general, and I think many others are, but you simply cannot expect people to work on their articles 24/7. That is unreasonable. Maybe you would, but others don't, and trying to force others to do the same makes you seem controlling. People have lives outside, off the Internet. They have family, friends, and other things. People are busy. You have to accept that people can't be on HTW all the time, and when they are it may not be very long. You are very skilled in Tornadoes, others are not. A little help for them would go a long way, instead of giving them warnings to edit, like I've seen on this wiki. No one wants you to retire, but you have to know that people are not "slaves" that are alive to make well detailed articles on HTW.

With regards, Money Hurricane (talk) 22:45, August 10, 2017 (UTC)

I understand where you're coming from, but I don't mean to force people to be on all the time.(Rather keeping them on is meant to make sure that their stuff isn't stolen without their knowing.) What I ask for is more effort. This doesn't mean being on the wiki all the time, rather you could only be on once a week and it'd still be fine as long as you put in great effort. Effort comes from planning as well. Having a good idea that you let sit for a bit allows you to produce a better page. This means while you aren't on wikia, you can still think about what you want to make without it interfering with your everyday life. There's no excuse for the gallery articles that are made constantly. Doesn't matter how busy you are, something with even a little effort in a small amount of time can still be made to be good. These articles that constantly infuriate me are more often then not, quick, cheap ways of getting edits and badges, and nothing more.

I see. Well, as a bureaucrat on another well-established wiki, I think you work with struggling users instead of giving them warning for every mistake. That serves as a deterrent, and, seeing that activity has somewhat slumped here, may be scaring users away. I think if you offer up the deal to collaborate with the user to show them the basics, it will be significantly more successful then leading a totalitarian campaign of warnings and deletions.