User:Hunterjd27/On reform

'''On reform, my thoughts:

Practices

Blocking: Avoid indef blocks for anything other than persistent vandals or chornic abusers. Even a blatent vandal shouldn't be blocked for longer than a week for their first block. Also we need to instill that ips should never be indeffed as they are recycled. More on blocks in rhetoric section

Abuse Filter: There is pretty much consensus on what to do here, and I cant view/edit the filters, so I won't beat a dead horse and reiterate all the points people have brought up before. Oh one thing which hasn't been brought up: A 3% false positive rate is still really bad considering the large amount of blocks handed out.

Rhetoric

Blocking: Always leave a block notice with reason, length, and how to unblock message wall. The challenge with this is fandom is stoopid and there is no way to warn ip editors. If when blocked you can still read a block reason, i guess this is our alley to communicate with ips.

Community Discord: This was one of the most offputting things for me when I joined, and I still think its a problem. The idea of the discord is to chat with other wiki editors about wiki related things, right? This fundamental idea is inherently negative for the project. We gate access to the discord behind a wall of texts and multiple buttons, and then when people join in and ask questions(about SB, not wiki) we proceed to threaten them with kicks or bans?

We want to make this a safespace, a place to hangout and also discuss wiki things. The fact that the most popular offtopic chat is/was #staff-chat is no coincidence. Very few non-staff are content with talking in #off-topic because no one is encouraged to join the server for such casual things.

We will make the server and community much better if we stop the gatekeeping wiki attitude and encourage even the tiniest bit of hanging out. I know others have raised valid concerns about this, but I have seen this work very well and our current system is by no means working.

One last thing about the discord that could be improved: Please let everyone react and talk in wiki activity, and possibly filter out all but edits. This allows recent changes patrolling to be done from discord, and for people to thank others for edits (with a simple thumbs up reaction) and to explain a questionable one. '''