Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5645428-20170327112102/@comment-27121914-20180502123136

Alright, here goes.


 * Activity: Frequent
 * Contributions:
 * Article tweaking (minor)
 * Article defending (vandalism reversion)
 * Social moderation (message walls, forum, Discussions)
 * Perceived nature of involvement: Minor/general
 * Personal feeling of involvement: Satisfying (Soon to be Occupying once I go back to school in 14 days).
 * Personal benefits from participating:
 * English language knowledge
 * Online friendships
 * Cooperation
 * General wiki knowledge
 * HTML knowledge
 * Expected future commitment: Sustained long term (Soon to be limited once I go back to school).

I am proud of gaining this position, since I now have the power to close threads, remove posts, and delete unnecessary pages by myself without telling or waiting others to do it. Before the nomination of the new moderator team, people have gradually left the wiki and moved to Discord, causing this wiki to be completely devoid of moderators, until now.

My activity is frequent as usual, because I regularly visit this place every day.

As for my contributions, I usually only step in once it's absolutely necessary, or if it's requested by someone to do something that only moderators and above could do, such as deleting irrelevant images and rolling back vandalism.

For my perceived nature of involvement, it's minor because all I did was general "maintaining the forum" stuff like closing threads and removing inappropriate posts that may genuinely offend other users or start unnecessary drama.

As for my personal benefits from participating:
 * My English language knowledge was already good when compared to the rest of my classmates. But since I come from a country where English is not the native language, coming to an online place like this may help myself improve my English knowledge by searching the words that I never knew about, in order to find their meaning.
 * As for online friendships, I have many friends on Discord to keep in touch with, which consists of users who are still active here, and those who left Wikia in favor of Discord. It's a personal benefit for me because I don't have to be lonely when staying at home anymore, because whenever I take a break from school for 1-2 months, I feel isolated from my classmates until I go back to school.
 * Cooperation? I'm friends with the 2 other moderators on Discord, and I usually request them to do moderator work that I wanted to do, such as removing posts whenever a flame war is started on a thread, but I'm unable to do so because of the inconvenience of using Wikia on mobile, such as when I'm at school.
 * As for my general wiki knowledge, I know about some things concerning Wikia in general, as a result of wandering around Wikia several years before I created my account. And since then, I occassionally look up help pages on the Community Central to learn more about Wikia.
 * For my HTML knowledge, I've been formatting my posts for years, but of course, that doesn't mean I'm the best at it. I saw someone who made their posts fancy with HTML codes, and I wondered how could I make posts like them. Eventually, I learned how to view forum posts in source mode, which is required to copy and paste them without messing up my posts, and to learn about them.

My expected future commitment would be a sustained long term, considering that I have been on this wiki for 3 years, and even if many have left, which includes almost every old users, I still decided to stay here. However, there will be a period that it'll shift to limited once I go back to school, since I need to be careful about my grades in the future, and need to be decisive about my priorities. But after school is over again, I will become available for moderation once more.