Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140502175349/@comment-34115-20140503000119

Dantman can't be reached via his talkpage, which means certain things only he can do will go ignored. Blame Wikia for that. I talked to the techs ages ago and they were never able to debug or fix the issue that stops Wikia from sending me talkpage notifications. And this issue along with my email address is visible at the very top of my talkpage in big letters on a big box.

If you try to email Dantman, you have to get your message correct the first time, because you will only get one chance at a reply: further communication is ignored and a whole new email must be sent to get his attention. Replies bump threads up in my inbox quite fine, there isn't much difference between adding a reply to a thread or making a separate email.

In my personal opinion, having an extra bureaucrat to manage certain wiki operations that can only be managed by a crat is a good thing for the wiki, because it means that someone will be there to talk to Wikia on behalf of the community. Sysops can try to get change for the wiki, but they will always require the opinion of one bureaucrat and Dantman is very rarely around to give that opinion. The only thing that actually needs a bureaucrat flag is granting sysop rights, something that isn't necessary often. Staff requests shouldn't require a bureaucrat to get them fulfilled. If staff are regularly rejecting requests that the community wants and has a consensus on then I'd like to have a talk about that. It looks like you guys got chat enabled without asking a bureaucrat to do it, nor do I remember my bureaucrat flag being needed to get UltimateSupreme's bot a bot flag.