Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20160813194043/@comment-995426-20160814154600

Farceface:

I've been on this wiki for a few years now.

I hold discussions and try to be persuasive in my arguments. But I'm still trying to color inside the lines, and I usually accept an administrative final decision. And then, I will lodge my reservations for the record.

This is not exactly any other wiki. When I first came here, I used my previous full decade of Wikipedia experience to try to open more discussion threads to build consensus for decision making. ...Most people don't respond. This site has many casual short-term users, but only a relatively small number of long-time regular users. And among the heaviest workhorses of wiki maintenance, most of are either admins, former admins, or me. When it comes to people who actually stick around for a long time and do stuff, this isn't a city, or even a quiet village&mdash;oftentimes it feels more like a few neighbors in the wilderness. I asked earlier not to be considered as an administrator, because as my Monday episode showed, I have a handful of episodes of instability, and administration requires a more stable personality to be effective.

I have asked my other TMNT fan friends why they don't get involved. And, like The S from his own experience, many don't respect this wiki&mdash;but for different reasons than The S has been told. My heavily Mirage-oriented TMNT fan friends see this wiki as more of a bland portal for the most popular annoying/kiddie stuff, so over the years I've worked hard to expand more articles on other series, especially Mirage, Palladium and MNT Gaiden which have been some of my main fan interests. For many entire sections of the wiki, most of the time, I have been the only active editor. There are so many Mirage TMNT topics that, until I paid attention to them, simply didn't exist as articles.

Since this wiki's core community of heaviest editors is such a relatively tiny community, it is my understanding (correct me if I'm wrong, The S) that The S has left a lot of the details to other editors. There have been long periods of time when he couldn't be here very often except to see make sure things are running smoothly, and honestly I can't blame him. (How's your health lately, The S?)

And as for my blowup with you, Farceface, on that Monday I was having a day-long panic attack that was already full of manic happenings even before I encountered you. You came in and did the wrong things at the wrong time, I was probably too brusque, and then you got mad, and I pretty much lost control. I'm really very sorry about that.

And yes, I'm very familiar that some Wikia wikis have administrators who seem to have full-fledged personality disorders. Heh, I probably even have one or another. If a wiki scares away all its fans (and TMNT fans are some of the most varied lot under the sun), it doesn't function well. So we all have to be more approachable. Most days for me aren't like Monday was.