Blog:Our union as Quadpedians

Hello fellas! King Dice here! Sorry if I had been kinda inactive recently. The reason is due to Spring Break and I wanted to take some vacations to just relax watching movies & shows and playing games, as well as planning something similar for r/Cuphead. I apologize for not telling no one and possibly causing worries. Now to the point.

I’ve seen recently how Zangler and Tiger have written down how they think the Wikis can improve if we decide to make some parts together, yet this is dedicated to a more community-based part and not about the pages as a whole.

1. Take care of problematic users
This is the first and most important thing in the wikis as a whole: the community. Users are people with different personalities, interests and ideas, not mindless sheeps that do everything that staff wants at the time they want or wish at the time they hope, and that’s OK. But that does not mean that they should do whatever they want. Our role is to guide them into becoming better users by helping them and warning them if they break the rules.

I think a way we can help users with a troublesome person, is to ask other users which experiences they had with that person while trying to not be biased and hateful. At least for me, a bad user shouldn’t ruin the experience of other 10 due to them acting stubborn and disrespectful.

2. Treat everyone equally
This is a more individualistic one, but also important to remind everyone to be nice with others. While I basically started just a year ago, I got into power relatively faster due to being only in the Game wikis, while others like Zangler took over a full year before he became an administrator. You see what I’m saying? Depending on which Wiki they started, the way a user is treated is different. This is due to each wiki having its own user-base and while that can bring diversity, it may also allow problematic people to only cause problems in one, making administrators just to give up on that wiki allowing more chaos to happen.

The only way we can solve this is to treat everyone depending on their actions, not only on what they say. If a user has shown responsibility and care for the wikis, we should treat them correctly. If they act immaturely and aggressive, we should treat them like any other trouble maker.

While I consider them kinda annoying, I think users like FatBurn and Bluba have good intentions in making the community better, but maybe their ideas don’t fit with our standards. I don’t think they are trying to ruin the wikis with their ideas and the fact that we have treated them horribly on some occasions.

3. Help the new ones
Something I noted is how some people are harsh to new users due to not having the experience of like a year or more in comparison of others.We should be able to help others when needed and not make fun of or be mad at them if they are having any problems or made a bad edit due to being new.

What we can do is a small guide page where we see how to do edits and give various recommendations, where every confirmed user can help to write and contribute in all wikis. It can hold information of how we work here and a little of wiki text with things like links and lists.

4. Be more united
More on the admin side, but I think the main reason a lot of users see this as a work space rather than a community is due to the lack of communication and basically just closing a lot of each other. We may be able to change this by promoting some activities that are told in the Discord server as Miscellaneous Sitenotices where everyone can join.

Another thing we can do is to incentivize the activity to the least active or small parts of the re-brand, like on the Book Wikis or the subreddit. This can also help multiple new people join for curiosity and enter the community.

That's all for now! Hope my recommendations are to your liking and I want to hear your thoughts on the comments.

Sayonara, my Panda Heros