User blog:Mroddy/The Great Reform!

Well with recent events forcing past admins to pay much closer attention to the wiki, it was decided I return to over-see the goings on of the wiki. While I never officially "Left" it is most likely obvious I was not active since around June. This is due to a large personal-life bomb being dropped on me and really sent my life into turmoil and I could barely keep myself safe, let alone protect a wiki. That is when 1Dra7 stepped in and made the wiki what it is now. However my life is more or less balanced, and so it is my job to come back and attempt to clean some things up and make the wiki more fun for the users who use it. While Dra may or may not continue his adminship reign, that is up to him

Let's Get This Party Started
Literally, to celebrate my return I will be hosting a camp, the camp will be based on myself hosting a party, much like previous (Failed... sadly) camps I have hosted, it will be more centered around a overall story than mindless challenges and voting. That said simply reply under my reply I will make after this to state you are interested so I get a feel on the amount of users who will be in the camp.

But on a more wiki-wide note, I would like this month to be the first month of a wiki-wide reform. This may sound rather alarming, but it is nothing to worry about. If everyone seems dead-set against it, nothing will be done. However the reform in my eyes will simply bring more continuity to the wiki and offer rewards for actually winning camps, something I tried to do in May, by creating the Hall of Fame, however that quickly failed due to me being too busy with school to do the constant flow of trophy requests, and when I did finish a trophy the camp would fail to reach an end.

B-b-b-but What?
In place of the currently unused Hall of Fame, I will create three basic trophies; gold, silver and bronze. These trophies will be used for all camps deemed "Worthy". A worthy camp is basically one that followed a real camp structure and did not seem rigged or rushed. These trophies will be collected in the Hall of Fame, so you can constantly keep an eye on who's doing well, and who is failing to win many camps.

The general concept is just to give you more of a reason to go and try to win camps. This will provide a "clean" slate, where only camps that end after a specified date will be counted. This date will likely be sometime next week, to allow time for me to create the trophies and set up the Hall of Fame to proper standards.

If you have questions as to how this will work please post a comment with it in the comment so that I can edit the section to make the idea more clear.

Annouying People... Everywhere...
I'm not exactly sure where they came from, or why they came. But the wiki has been having many issues related to users not getting along or simply disrecting one another. In accordance to how things are usually done, Dra banned the offenders. However, it seems to be a more common thing, to try and atleast fix this, I will be creating an updated rule list. This will be made as a forum post, where you can voice your opinion on ALL rule changes and additions. I will take them all into consideration and adjust them to suit the needs of the wiki to the best of my ability.

The forum page itself will be opened for roughly two weeks after it is posted, and in that time I would like it if we could come to a solid agreement on the rule changes, not at all like the most recent rule addition... If you know what I'm talking about. In the end though, I will have have a veto power and the final say if you all, for whatever reason decide it would be cool to have a like "All guys have to pretend to be girls on Fridays"... Because... Well... Yeah... Not going to even explain why that's just wrong in so many ways.

Again, if you have questions please comment so I can explain it better.

Your Ideas
Finally I think it is always a good idea to take all of your ideas to try and better the wiki. With the reform I want to create much more of a community than just the camps. While I have many ideas, with some of them being simple adjustments to ideas admins have previously tried to do, I think it is always a good idea to see what you all have to say about it aswell. Because in the end, if I choose what happens all the time, there will be little fun for the rest of you. To be a community we need equal say. So if you have any ideas please, please. PLEASE comment with them I am open eared.

I would also like to welcome all the new users who I actually don't know... I know this blog is mostly bussiness related, but it is really great to see so many fresh faces.