Forum:WE NEED ANOTHER ADMIN!!

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Requested thread by Hindleyite. Sincerely, islandmonkey - go speak 19:56, 4 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

I'll apply! After all, I am the petaQ'a'pedia admin, and the ?media lamp, and quite a good one, if I may say so myself. ~ 21:33, 4 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

I like lamps. ~ 23:19, 4 Octodest 2011

I applied once. I failed. I highly doubt Hindleyite or any other admins actually requested this, but I'll throw my hat in the ring. Not to offend my good friend Dan, but I have more credentials. Yet Bard and them probably have more than me. But I won't mention that. I have almost 3,000 edits and 180 articles here. I also am:

• A Sysop at RationalWiki
• De facto Site Owner/Crat at Simple English Uncyclopedia
• Official Member (TM) of A Storehouse of Knowledge (page moving rights, SkipCaptcha, Upload, block rights, and humanity)
• Editor at Knowino, SE Wikipedia (sorta), Ameriwiki, and most recently CreationWiki.

I know I most likely won't get it, but I can try.--Colonel Sanders 23:31, 4 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

I'm an admin, I'm fairly competent, I just choose to be a lazy arse whenever I come around, and justify my apathy with classwork or some nonsense. Honestly, I'm fit for the job whenever. It's just, I'm not. Someone get me some mayonnaise. —rms talk 00:54, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

I could be blunt and say what I really think about all this, but I'd rather not. And rms, your mayonnaise went rancid so I fed it to a beaver. You don't want to know what happened after that. ~ 00:57, 5 Octodest 2011

Yes I do, you filthy tripe. Scraggle me the transcript on a piece of coffee-stained paper and send via messenger pigeon. —rms talk 01:05, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

*explodes* ~ 03:17, 5 Octodest 2011

Your explosion hampers my new article-whorage. Shame on you. —rms talk 03:35, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

I'm doubtful that that this initiative has legs, given Sep's reluctance to risk over-administrating the site... but I'm available.

If it needs to be said, I started Illogicomedia because there wasn't enough trouble for me to get into here, but I'm still gnawing on people's nerves with my requests for article management. So, I guess I need more rope to hang myself with. Plus, I have extra time on my hands now that I'm taking a step back from editing the Times. (I'm more than happy to contribute an article or two a week, but maybe Athyria or Gruntled should be giving it the weekly shove out of drydock.)

My feelings about administration run pretty counter to the model here, and are more in-line with the Col.'s. Anyone who I can trust to contribute responsibly to ?media has extra keys to do so, even if they aren't a full-blown sysop. I think of Illogicomedia like an open source project: there's more harm than good in refusing expertise from demonstrated contributors that can commit helpful changes. Pick the right people, create the right culture, have oversight from a Project Leader, and it needn't evolve into a police state. As BDFL there, I'm monitoring that culture, and anyone that seems like they're abusing their admin rights will get them pulled (temporarily or permanently, depending on whether they can embrace the role properly). With this model, the joke banning problem at ?media was quickly eliminated, and the Col. graciously suggested doing the same over at SEU (which we've done). I think both places run well despite the relatively high admin ratio, though it still important to make sure that the professionalism remains under heavier traffic.

Another admin isn't necessary if someone can just commit to managing the front page (with a reminder from a Google Calendar alert or something). Yeah the wiki is small and the content is periodically stagnant, but communicating that message on the front page through lack of updates just creates a self-fulfilling prophecy. Make the place look more dynamic on the landing page, and maybe it will become so. ~ The Bard of Illogicopedia 14:06, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

Those who beg, should eat their own leg.--Ben ^Blade 17:31, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

Could I be an admin? If I fail in my adminship and abuse my power you could simply strip me of my adminship. But I won't abuse my power or force feature Bob. --Gomphog 19:33, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

Let me think: No. Sincerely, islandmonkey - go speak 19:47, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

My history is stained with fail. But I promise that I will cleanse my history. --Gomphog 19:49, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

If you can spell it correctly, then OK. Con tutto l'odio dovuto, Sincerely, islandmonkey - go speak 19:55, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

There!

Oh look, Ben. Let's make him an admin. Heck, let's make everyone an admin! And then there can be levels of adminship, more complex than we have already established.

Wate-uh-segund. Everyone is already an admin! You, you, even... you!—You're all admins here. Some of us admins are just a little more pippy-rippy and stuff, and have magical spell packets we picked up from the trick store that let us do things like ban people. It's a matter of having the money for the spell packets, really. —rms talk 23:43, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

Eh, whuh now? Gomphog, Ben? How come inactive users only come around when an admin forum pops up? Strange. I smell a Glenn Beck conspiracy coming from them ashes. But seriously, Gomphog is just a bit.... uhh how do I say this without getting the feelings police on my case... too much a fan of sockpuppeteering, annoyance, and weirdo sexual innuendos. there. I said it. He was right about his history..... it's not the best. As for Bard's stufff about mainpage updating, I could do dat! In fact, I do it once a few weeks at SEU and we only have 150 articles! Not that this means anything. I dunno what mah point is....--Colonel Sanders 22:01, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

After I finished my GCSEs and managed to fit being an active user in my timetable, I just so happened to stumble across this. Ever since I signed up one midsummer morning, it was my ambition to become an admin but I betrayed that in the name of trolling and doomed myself to exile. --Gomphog 22:07, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

I can understand that. I know it's a problem when a reformed user is still treated like a troll. But, you did some pretty bad stuff. People like me with no social life often invest hours into wikis, and usually constructively as if we had accomplished something important. Back to my point, certain sites will even block entire geographic regions to keep a single former bad egg out. I hope you can reform, but try something a bit less.... raunchy first, but that's just my personal suggestion.--Colonel Sanders 22:13, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

One reason I created multiple accounts was to renew my career as another user and contribute my knowledge of novelty Star Wars figurines. --Gomphog 22:22, 5 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

I will not whap your favorite baby seal upside the head with a lead-filled snowshoe, unless you make me an admin. User:24.61.112.73 22:22, 17 Octodest 2011 (UTC)

I would, but IPs can't be admins. It's like that thing where you have to be Church of England to be Prime Minister, which immediately rules me out because I'm a Duncanist. -- Hindleyak  Converse • ?blog • Click here! 15:12, 7 Ditzimber 2011 (UTC)

I love the annual adminship debate. So much one-upmanship, so little time -- $H_{olleH}^{ello}$ 22:55, 9 Ditzimber 2011 (UTC)

A tradition started by Flameviper that has passed down the generations, and long may it continue.--Ben ^Blade 23:50, 9 Ditzimber 2011 (UTC)

Jesus Christ, guys. I don't know why people who have been on this site for half as long as people like Ben and I are asking for adminship. Granted, you guys might be freaking amazing, and I just don't see you because I'm not that active but stop. You sound like me when there was a debate on a new admin more than three years ago. I point this out because I was twelve. If the current administration decides they want a new admin, so be it. They're going to choose not on who makes the best case on a forum, but who they feel knows the ins and outs of the site and is willing to maintain order and who has given the site his or her due. There has been no clear evidence of the urgent need of a new admin, and there also is no evidence that someone who has been on the site for a significantly shorter time than a decent part of the userbase should get said adminship. It's not like I'm saying, "DON'T BE AMBITIOUS!" or anything like that, I just know from personal experience that it won't work and you'll sound extremely annoying. I can remember that after a long period of my inactivity, Readmesoon and Athyria were made admins. Readmesoon were previously the tag-team-duo that no one had seen the likes of since Simon and Garfunkel (admittedly I was Garfunkel) so I was ticked off that Readmesoon became an admin and some hotshot I vaguely knew about (sorry Athyria, I didn't know you at all at the time) took my place. I was all like, "We came at the same time and now [she] gets adminship with him instead of me? GAH!" Then I realized that you must show qualities of a dedicated user (which I didn't due to inactivity) and be a helping part of the community. You need to show something that makes it seem right for you to be an admin and quite frankly, I don't see it in any of you. Don't take that as an insult because I don't see it in myself either. Sure, I'd be rightfully pissed off if someone who joined more than a year and a half after me got adminship before me, but I'm human. Anyway, despite the fact that the previous stuff didn't really mean much, I do have one point to make: The fact that you're asking for adminship shows you're unworthy. --T3 02:41, 10 Ditzimber 2011 (UTC)

I tried to think of something funny to say in response to that speech... but I couldn't.

Here, just have a cookie.-- ~ Noodles! 03:04, 10 Ditzimber 2011 (UTC)

Well, I just think some people take the possibility of adminship too seriously. Thanks largely to Athyria, we're well on top of the vandal/spam situation, so the only real reason to take on someone new would be to sort out featured articles. If we made you an admin, would you have the cojones to be the featured article updater? Zat ees zee qvestion. -- Hindleyak  Converse • ?blog • Click here! 12:41, 10 Ditzimber 2011 (UTC)

I'm inactgive, though. Except that should end next week. Probably. Wikis may prove a little too... brain-using for me to manage right away. ~ 16:59, 10 Ditzimber 2011

Who gets whacked with the spanky paddle for re-opening a thread that was dead for a month? History page says... Hindleyite. ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ((whack)) ~ The Bard of Illogicopedia 14:20, 13 Ditzimber 2011 (UTC)

I'm sawwy bawwss, I swears I won't do it agains!

Actually no, I can't guarantee that. I can't help but resurrect old posts for the sake of a quick quip. I blame my non-activity on actually bothering to do stuff other than browse Illogicopedia :D -- Hindleyak  Converse • ?blog • Click here! 15:51, 13 Ditzimber 2011 (UTC)

No harm, no foul. Gave me an excellent excuse to flog somebody, which I've been wanting to do for quite some time now. ~ The Bard of Illogicopedia 13:58, 15 Ditzimber 2011 (UTC)

I WILL BE SO GOOD AS AN ADMIN. I WOULD REMOVE STUFF FROM THINGS AND STUFF THINGS BACK INTO OTHER THINGS I WOULD!!!!!!!!!!!!!! DO IT!!!!-- 14:34, 16 Ditzimber 2011 (UTC)