Board Thread:MicroWiki/@comment-25866192-20150219002830/@comment-4251620-20150220211347

I wish to make few things clear - we never voted on forums, we always did it on the Community Portal (this would be the reason for the removal of the forum post, I'd hope - I have not seen the exchange between Cinder and Sabovia). Both because of tradition, and control how it displays (displaying votes was far more simple, all of these threads tend to end up in a constant discussion over the same thing between two users).

The whole point of the fresh start was not a literal re-start, just focusing all the items on the hypothetical to-do list into a concrete action and inform the community. While I may not have agreed that much with all of its parts, I was not truly against any. I still have many issues with several actions the team took over the past year, such as removing many articles and blog posts which could be considered as historically important and some of the blocks.

I never mentioned that the changes in the administrator team are in any way unchangeable, I merely said we do consider re-assigning user rights (which was not my idea to begin with) and the possibility of letting the team choose. The team was slowly getting more and more inactive over time and I personally thought that bringing new members will definitely bring new life to the team.

Regarding the policies - I like the fact we are getting to writing them (many of the matters used to be simply unwritten rules), but we are not making them known, which may make them seem as a tool by members of the administration team to block someone from the site. I am not sure who removed the list from the menu, but we should probably announce the policies through site-wide announcements anyway.

I know, I went off-topic in many of these points (a bit?, probably a lot). Now, I would like to say that I am glad this brought the community back alive somewhat, but sadly through a conflict. I am chosing to abstain, I think this is not my matter to decide, mainly because I should not judge myself and my actions and due to my low activity, which I hoped to compensate through the changes in design and templates we were planning. I wanted to clarify a few things, so here are my two cents.