Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-1251315-20141013163005/@comment-1207741-20141013223445

As I did the last time he was up for consideration, I've looked through SuperSajuuk's contributions over the last month:


 * SuperSajuuk makes a lot of contributions to the forums. Like, a lot a lot. So many, in fact, that I stopped looking at them as I was going through his edits. When he isn't participating in discussions he is formatting other user's post, removing multi-quotes, and merging posts from the same user. I also assume he removes stuff, but there's no reliable way to look at histories of that. In his capacity as a moderator he sometimes issues warnings which I generally find no issue with. His request to not bring up other series seems strange; I understand not having topics about other series, but to not reference them? Maybe a poor choice of words on his part. This edit and this explanation also raised an eyebrow. I remind anyone reading this that moderator's are (currently) basically self-appointed. So SuperSajuuk, with his self-appointed authority, is telling other users not to appoint themselves with authority. This conflict seemed strange enough that I wanted to point it out. But as I said, and as a number of other users above indicate, SuperSajuuk's edits to the forum are good and valuable.
 * But when looking beyond his forum contributions, there's not much else:
 * He edits user talk pages somewhat often. About half the time it's to issue warnings. The other half of the time it's basic correspondence, which recently takes the form of asking the user to enter the chat room. He also apparently monitors what messages other users are leaving each other and interjects when he can provide information.
 * He moves files to shorter names sometimes.
 * When editing the mainspace it is usually for minor formatting problems. He'll sometimes revert stuff, too. He doesn't have as itchy a rollback finger as he used to, but it still happens . He's at least better about explaining his reason for reverting by leaving the user a message afterwards, though I would rather he explained in the edit summary in addition to/instead of.
 * And that's about all I can say as far as trends go outside of the forums. I want to emphasize that these non-forum edits are in the minority of his contributions, specifically his edits to files and the mainspace. His reasons for cloistering himself seem to be because he doesn't read the manga. Which is fine; he doesn't need to. But it's not really a reason, though. A person can contribute without reading the manga, just as a person can contribute without watching the anime. But this is my own personal view and sysops are under no obligation to edit the wiki's content spaces.
 * However, if he is not doing much of anything outside of the forums, I do not know what sysop privileges he can take advantage of. He has told me countless times that sysops have greater forum privileges. And I suppose being able to close and highlight threads is indeed "greater". But clearly he is able to contribute without these privileges, and I do not see any indication that he would frequently, if ever, need to protect/delete like a sysop can.
 * I have made the case in previous discussions that unused privileges are, in and of themselves, not a problem. And I maintain that view. But like Cerez, I am concerned by SuperSajuuk's past behavior:
 * In the thread that preceded this one SuperSajuuk was dismissive of both Dantman and the points he made. When he could not successfully ignore Dantman he started this thread with open reluctance. Seeming avoidance to discussion is not something I want in a sysop.
 * In my own interactions with him he has given the impression that he does not respond well to opposing viewpoints:
 * I turned down his request to close a thread since the thread didn't violate current policies. Rather than follow my advice about starting a discussion to change policy, he instead complained about me.
 * He asked me to make an edit for him, which I told him I didn't see the need for and encouraged him to ask someone else. SuperSajuuk did not like my right to having an opinion.
 * When he requested a user be blocked and I asked for specific links of the user's blockable offenses, SuperSajuuk instead told me to do it myself. Whether or not I should be able to find things on my own is irrelevant; he is more familiar with the user, evidenced by his block request, and therefore he should be willing and able to provide links when asked regardless.
 * It may be that Dantman and I merely bristle SuperSajuuk in ways that other users don't; he doesn't seem to conflict with others often or ever. But it's behavior that he doesn't need to display at all.
 * I realize that this is off-wiki and outside of my focus of the last month, but I also wanted to draw attention to this TES wiki thread. I don't actually care about the actual discussion and whether or not SuperSajuuk had done anything wrong before that. It's the comments that he made in the thread itself, which are juvenile and affronting. People can disregard this example if they wish to. I only bring it up because I feel it reinforces my point that he doesn't appreciate dissent.
 * I'm also not entirely certain he drinks the "sysop is not a status symbol" punch. He's aware of the mantra, yet at the same time created Template:Mod so that he and others can bandy about that they are forum moderators on talk pages.

To summarize, I believe SuperSajuuk is an excellent forum moderator and would support his being given additional forum tools if ever Wikia can figure out how to do so. However, his infrequent non-forum edits and the attitude he displays towards others lead me to believe that he should not be given full sysop rights at the present time.