Thread:Nusdan/@comment-25358024-20170227190556/@comment-27022259-20170301050219

Hackey5 wrote: And that is one issue, actually, the constant splitting of discussions across two platforms and multiple locations. I hope you aren't surprised.

Hackey5 wrote: And again, not a single staff member objected or even commented on my locking of the boards until then. How are we supposed to object when you don't tell us what you are doing? Briefly mentioning on an announcement that Off-Topic would be locked for good "in a few days" in the form of a reply buried below more replies does not count as "initiating that conversation". If you're talking about something else, then it must have been as effective as the aforementioned reply everybody missed. You didn't even bother editing the announcement. I actually had to look for where you mentioned locking the boards. Never once were we, or anyone for that matter, properly informed of what you planned on doing. If this conversation was supposed to be properly initiated, then your way of telling us failed miserably. If only you had effectively notified the community about this of what you were proposing to do at the time, this very thread wouldn't exist.

Hackey5 wrote: Because you didn't do so earlier, I assumed you had no issues, and I proceeded to follow up with the Off Topic board after the initial group was locked. That was your fatal error—assuming. I didn't even know locking boards was possible until I saw Trinket's message.

Hackey5 wrote: I ask how people feel about updates and decisions, and until your comment, no one has presented a detailed argument elaborating what benefits the forum has over Discussions. That's because the majority of users on here are pretty much afraid of you. To the community, you give off the impression that you are the boss of the place who is not to be reckon with. Perhaps if you were more involved with the community more often, you wouldn't have that issue. Plus, aren't the benefits very obvious? To you they may not seem like it because you don't make much use of the features that are supposed to be retired.

Hackey5 wrote: Saying it sucks is expected, for that is the universal response to change, not knowing what you had until it is gone. Very ignorant statement.. Maybe it actually does suck? I would be pretty mad too if all of my forum games that I worked very hard on were all of the sudden deleted and wiped from existence. And then they couldn't even have a proper farewell with the board they spent so much time on, with so many good times being randomly locked away with very little warning? This shows how little regard you have for the community, considering you view the Off-Topic board "a place to waste your time". To a lot of users on here, it is a lot more than that. It was a place to hang out with friends, and I can think of a few users on here who look forward/had looked forward to going to the board because they themselves don't have a lot of friends in the real world. It's one of the only outlets they have access to in terms of a friendship basis. And yet you still call it "a place to waste your time". Let us revisit part of your justifications for running a wiki.

Hackey's user page: "They'll say it's not exactly real life, but I know how much people can come to involve themselves with things they are passionate about, and I will most certainly be one to support them in any way possible."

For someone who has that on their profile, this was a very inconsiderate move. You should have been more conscious of other users while making your decision.

Hackey5 wrote: It is not uncommon for me to pose myself for questioning when I enter the chat. You're right, it isn't uncommon—in my perspective, it's quite rare actually. If you're like Nusdan and me, you would have to stay up until three in the morning just to have a real-time conversation with our boss. That's ridiculous. As the only bureaucrat of the wiki, you need to accommodate our time zones a little better. You need to be on chat more often for the sake of improved communication between staff (after all, that is the most important part of a team). You need to communicate better in general. Not just for us, for everyone. Not just in the form of a little highlight, actually on chat. You get much more authentic and genuine responses because they are in real time, and potentially more replies if you join at the right time. If you did both, you would have a lot of feedback to use.

Normally I would excuse your inactivity on chat in our time zone but you're blaming this communication issue on us, and that's unfair. All of this could have been avoided by just popping into chat, shooting us a PM, and then we would have had a nice discussion. Even a simple message on any one of our walls would have been just fine. Yet you still failed to use any effective way of communicating this with all of us, however, and you somehow have the audacity to tell us it's our fault.