User blog:Badpeteno/Let's have a little talk about the forums.

Forum Issues

 * Ain't nobody got time fo' dat.
 * Cluttered
 * Disorganized
 * Unfocused
 * Ain't nobody got time fo' dat.

Solutions

 * Me

Why?
None of you have time for it. This wiki is in the process of some serious reconstruction and is also growing every day. While it's important that the REAL adimins (all current admins not named pete) maintain an active presence in the forum, they have better things to do than 'clean up' the forum. I am suited well for this as I'm very new to editing wikis but I'm quite experienced at low-level social engineering.

I've highlighted a post on the forum that's been around for quite some time and never got an answer. If you read it, it's clearly from a child. Mind you, this is our target audience. There are a lot of kids tooling around this wiki. While they may not be able to participate by editing, the CAN ask 'what's your favorite dragon' on the forum. I feel very strongly that these sort of posts should be fostered and encouraged.

Conclusion
Wikia has such a strange political structure. Everyone is free and encouraged to participate. Those who do advance in rank. There is no leader. Jens is certainly the eldest even if I'm the oldest (I'm 30, anyone got me beat?), but Jens never acts like it belongs to him.

With this example in mind, I'm not asking permision to fix the forum, I'm just going to fix it. It doesn't belong to anyone and I can't say it belongs to me. I just see a job that needs to be done and I'm going to do it. Since I'm new, I may make mistakes. If I change anything and another admin doesn't like it, message me and I'll fix it.

Oh yeah... If anyone really hates the changes I make, I'm going to blame it on Prajay since this was his idea.