Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-4091815-20160221025102

Here is how the final vote came out.

As you can see there were three more "yes" votes than "no" votes.

I don't believe, based on this vote, that it is the will of the "community" to make radical changes to how the site is run. However, changes coming to the site from WIKIA corporate will require some adjustments to the management layer of Teen Wolf Wikia.

Currently we have three active admins, myself, Maria and Dry and one technical admin who advises on structure and code issues, Ochristi. We have JoshWolf currently as our part-time Chat Moderator.

With the new "discussions" feature that will be unveiled in the coming weeks, we'll need to add the newly created position of "discussion moderators" to take on added responsibility to make sure the new addition doesn't descend into spam and chaos.

Discussion Moderators have the ability to edit and remove posts from the new discussion feature. The toolset also includes control over the Wikia's chat system and the main wikia's blogs but the primary function should be to monitor discussions.

I look forward to the new discussions feature mainly because it will open up the conversation about the show to the 50 thousand plus users of our Teen Wolf Wikia App.

Unfortunately, I can't go into too much detail about discussions as of now. I signed a non-disclosure agreement with WIKIA as part of their Community Council and STARS programs two years ago and the new feature is, as of now, still in Beta.

You can see how it works over at Wookieepedia.

Here are my recommendations for the position of Discussion Moderators -

NervousShipper - NS has proven to be very active in the forums and has a good ear for those users who might abuse others. This individual also has an excellent sense of humor and, I believe, can be fair.

Jestermonkey4u - Another frequent discussion contributor with an eye toward keeping discussions focused on the show and topics of importance.

Alphawerewolf5 - AW5 is a stickler for the facts and canon. While this user can be brusk and overly direct at times, they know a lot about the show and can help guarantee folks don't wander off into areas unrelated to canon.

I would also like to recommend Godechaud and Utah Alpha as alternates should any of the above nominees decline. The fact is we'll probably need them anyway if the discussions feature takes off like it has on the handful of other sites who are already using it.

In addition to the above slate of moderators - I will soon bestow "Junior Admin" status on KillerKev as an intermediate step toward full administrative duties for Season 6. This will entail boosting Kev's user rights to rollback multiple bad edits and ability to edit and remove threads on the current forum an other behind the scenes administrative duties. He deserves to be on this track given his very helpful contributions during Season 5

I would like your input on the discussion moderator positions and if any of my nominees want to bow out, I'll understand. If you want to nominate someone I overlooked, I'll be happy to consider it but the real deciding factor will be how they've performed on the site over time. 