User blog comment:Zion3xX/What Makes a Good Admin/@comment-9154802-20170508185714

You are exactly right on several of your points. This blog has probably been made in regards to the recent events, so I will put in my two cents.

I'm not very good at articulating my thoughts and such very well. Often I turn to a friend of mine who holds good judgement to base my decisions on, as well as refer to and discuss with Staff and other admins regularly. I try my hardest for this place, and everything I've done was at the request of someone, be it a regular user or another admin. I rarely act on my own in regards tot he things I do. However due to my poor communication skills, I'm often left getting into arguments about my goals for the wiki. This has greatly discouraged me from discussing with others so I tend to act without telling people. This got me stuck in a rock and a hard place, as my lack of communication and my acting without communicating lead to more confusion about what I intend to do. Because of the unknown involved, several users tend to assume the worst out of it due to my previous history of having been emotionally unstable and making unreasonable decisons, some of which I truly regret.(I'm all fine now, I have a friend who helps keep me in check). As such recently I've been making forums to explain what I am doing that day and what I may do the next day. I make sure to take an hour or more to articulate myself thoroughly and full illustrate my goal.

Now before I became an admin, things were extremely lax around here. Rules weren't being enforced at all, and several users would constantly get away with shit all because "That's how they are". Upon becoming admin I decided to start enforcing these rules, and it reulted in an outrage. For typical offenses I use the Warn -> Kick -> Ban method. (Or in the case of the Main Wiki, like a Warning - 2 hour block). One thing I did differently though was base my penalities on how the users acted in the face of the warning or block. People who fought me or argued with me about it were even worse off than they would've been. The key is nto to fight me with it, but several users didn't seem to understand this. Another thing is users tended to think EVERYTHING should start off with a slap on the wrist, but as I've explained, situations such as the current incident necessitate far more steep penalties. I try to avoid these as much as possible, and even then I'm still very generous with how I issue them. Most of the shit I have to deal with here wouldn't fly anywhere else, hell half of everyone would be perma blocked by now (Which I have been told to do by Staff before), but I refuse to do so. I'm always hoping for a chance the user will right their wrong and come out a better person. I'm always hoping for this.

That's all I can think of right now....so yeah...