Board Thread:Game Discussion/@comment-69.133.97.3-20171207054018/@comment-26829117-20171208223833

So whilst I'm not an admin/moderator of this site I can speak from experience of what it is like.

Firstly, I think we should consider that we are 5 days into a new update and the hardest task on this wiki is preparing all the new pages for editors to start filling in. Imagine the complaints if the NISSAN SILVIA (S15) R3 Spec Championship page hadn't been up on day one. So by the Friday the admins are usually pretty burnt out. It's not like they do this full time or anything, they do it because they find this wiki helpful and want to keep it that way.

Secondly, admins are also players. An LTS started on day one and every admin is running at least one game (I think Michael runs 3 at times) because you need games at different levels to get all the new info (and because the admins are generally mad). They were busy mon/tue/wed creating content for you to fill in and still need to complete the LTS.

Thirdly, they aren't here to police your behaviour, it's a community site, you can police yourselves. They do remove profanity when they see it but also, when the site is busy, there are no tools to highlight profanity and if comments are coming thick and fast it's easy to miss them. They rely on people reporting them to catch the ones they miss.

Fourthly, this site doesn't need much policing compared to most forums I've moderated in the past. The biggest problems the admins have to deal with is profanity, aggressive / abusive behaviour and trolling. There is occasional vandalism but that has reduced since we locked the article pages to only registered users.

Fifthly, there have been suggestions that we should lock non-registered users out of the forums too but I'm against that for a number of reasons. As the Fandom above said, sometimes you don't want to log in for valid reasons to do with your local environment, not so you can be an anonymous troll but also because some fandom users contribute a lot to the site.

Sixthly, it is true that most of the profanity and abuse comes from anonymous accounts and as anonymous accounts can't update article pages any more they are viewed as less important. It's not about in-crowds but more because a fandom user can't be an editor so isn't so valuable to the site.

Seventhly, if you want to be an anonymous troll you don't have to be a fandom users. I know several people have more than one account and I've worked out who some of them are but still have my suspicions about others. Each to his own.

Eighthly, this is a high adrenaline game and people get excited / wound up when they are enjoying it or being frustrated by it. I worry more about abusive comments than I do about people just getting a little excited.

Ninethly, profanity is actually tolerated on this site according to the rules (though this has changed a few times over time). We rarely get people using any of the words that I would consider completely unacceptable. Tenthly, I can't believe sixthly, seventhly, eighthly, ninethly (sp?) and tenthly aren't words in my spellchecker.

So calm down, stop bitching at each other and report profanity and abuse where you see it if you find it unacceptable. Using the report button is probably the most efficient way to do this or post on an admins wall. There is a list of admin users on the site.

And lastly, best advice about profanity and abuse is "don't be a dick". Think before you post. And anyone who wants to call me a hypocrite is more than welcome to do so because basically you'd be right and I can't really argue with that :-D.