User blog comment:Mak23686/What you DONT like here/@comment-3969224-20111128051350

What don’t I like about the iCarly wiki… Another good question.

Communication - I don’t like the lack of communication between some admins and the community. Some like to use the term admin business as a way of saying we don’t need to explain ourselves to you. I’m not saying all of the admins do it but some do and you need to remember the people make the wiki and it feels like a certain level of disrespect when you tell us that things concerning the wiki are, A. none of our concern and B. Basically none of our business. I don’t believe that you are trying to show us any level of disrespect but sometimes it feels that way. So work on communication would be nice.

Communication - It’s not just admins that I feel should work on communication skills. It goes both ways the community needs to step up and show better communication skills. I think blogs like these are a good way of working through communication issues so I thank you for taking the time to go through this process and asking the community how we feel about things. (I know I need to work on my communication skills as well so I hope that nobody takes this personally)

Rules - I have read the policies for editing the wiki so forgive me if I’m wrong. There are a lot of unwritten rules unless I am missing another section of rules. If there are written rules somewhere that I’m missing just ignore this paragraph and please link them to me because I would like to see them. Anyway if not I think that the policies should be updated and include the unwritten rules. Even if they seem like common sense its better to have something typed out and readily available so people have a better understanding of all the rules.

Bans - There needs to be a better ban system in place. In the policies section I think you should give the full list of offences and ban lengths. That way you aren’t just giving people a random amount of time. Also when banning people, especially if you are giving them a lengthy ban it would be nice if you gave a detailed explanation along with proof of the offence. I don’t think you should ban people longer than a week without giving evidence of their offence, just add screen caps of the offence or link along with the ban.

Chat - Chat has it’s share of problems as well. If a Chat Mod kickbans someone I think they should take the time to go to that users page and give them a detailed reason for there kickban. I have seen other wiki’s use that policy and I think this wiki could do well to enforce it as well. Also to help your Chat Mods you could add Chat Rules to the policies page as well as kickban lengths according to what offence may have occurred. Also you could maybe make a blog on how to screen cap so Chat Mods can discuss some of the more serious offences with the admins. It would be a good thing to do as well.

There are always things that can be improved on and with good team work between the admins and the community it can get done.

Thank you for taking the time to read this lengthy response and if I was wrong about the large list of unwritten but frequently enforced rules could you please link me to them. I read site policies but couldn’t find most of the rules.