Board Thread:Important stuff/@comment-27178869-20140427024823/@comment-24866404-20140427041633

Knowledgeable Marksman wrote: JCM wrote:

Knowledgeable Marksman wrote: Still, I believe you guys can thrive perfectly without merging. The dilemma behind this was never really explained to me, but the wiki itself looks perfectly stable (excluding the controversy on blogs). Just because the wiki looks stable doesn't mean that it's that way in reality. We currently have about 20 bureaucrats, half of whom want to run the wiki one way, and half who want to run the wiki another way. None of the bureaucrats can demote each other, and the community can't agree on which bureaucrats to demote. This has led to a string of deletions and undeletions, blocks and unblocks, enabling and disabling of popular Wikia features that have plunged the wiki into chaos. This merge is the only hope the wiki has of returning to any kind of stability, since the staff will essentially be removed and a large amount of users will move to a fork on Referata. I want this to be a place for the users who want to stay and edit their fanon pages on Wikia and are willing to adapt to another wkki's policies to do so.

I see. We've had a similar issue before, though users were willing to cooperate and get demoted. But, having talked with Wikia staff various times, I find it hard to believe that a simpler compromise could not be made. Obviously, I can't do nothing that can help but I do recommend pestering staff until they do something. Our reputation with Wikia has been scarred since the very beginning, which is apart of the issue: several of our users are globally blocked.