Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2175012-20161030220101

I have to be entirely honest with you all; I'm kind of contemplating on retiring as admin. I had been talking to LucidPigeons (or as he goes by now, Scraggle) in a private discussion on TV Tropes, stating that I was feeling exhausted with managing the wiki. Before you assume anything, it has nothing to do with the recent changes going on in the wiki (well, kind of). I have always been adamantly against the cleanup and I'm at the very least skeptical of it. No, I am not butthurt about the changes whatsoever; truth be told, I had been on the site for years, and I never noticed that it had a few problems, well a surplus of problems. Some in particular being users who feel compelled to do whatever they want because they feel that the rules don't apply to them. I understand that cleanup is necessary for the wiki, as it's somewhat bloated, but I do not approve of the latest trend of renaming categories or merging them just for the sake of merging and renaming them. I have always been skeptical of this as I feel that the category needs to have several similarities to another to warrant a merging. It just seems that everyone's obsessed with merging when it doesn't even contribute that much to the wiki. Maybe it's because of the fact that I was on the wiki for a few years that I felt irritated that completely new people are suggesting changes despite the fact that they hadn't been on the wiki for at the very least a year and a half or a month. It's not to say that I don't respect most of their points, I do. But that's the keyword; I only agree with most of their suggestions.

With being admin, I thought that I could give something back for the wiki. I love this wiki; I always claim that I'm going to quit it, but I simply love it too much. But when I became admin, I realized just how snobbish some users could be. I mean, there have been several crappy users over the years that I've had the displeasure of blocking. I have been accused of being a dictator or a tyrant, because I lock pages, block users, or simply because I close threads (that usually go nowhere). While I'm restrictive, and I tend to dominate discussions, I just felt compelled that I needed to maintain order even if it meant restricting their liberties to do whatever they wanted. Without admins, the wiki would most likely be in disarray so I felt that I was doing the best for my wiki. Taht's not getting into some conflict that I have had with some users. For instance, there was that whole issue with Tomoo. While Tomoo is a vile young boy, he failed the heinous standard for his respective series, because of the fact that other villains do far worse. He also failed the general heinous standard, because he only killed a dog, which while bad, is insufficient. I tried to be completely reasonable with my evaluation, but one user (whom I will not name) was pissed that I didn't share his viewpoint on the boy. And jsut recently, I had been called a smartass simply because I stated that I thought that merging comic book categories into DC and Marvel Comics respectively was pushing it. I just still feel that it's really unnecessary; I wasn't even as much as openly mocking the user about his proposal. I understand that he wants to be helpful, but I feel that sometimes he goes overboard now and then.

I tried; I honestly tried to be sociable and a positive contributor for the wiki. But more often than not, I am only seen as a tyrant, an asshole, or something in between. With that being said, I'll be considering my possible retirement. I might continue to edit on the wiki here and there, but I have been exhausted with all these pointless quibbles. If you need me, I'll be on TV Tropes, or deviantART. I have an account there. 