June 2021 Mod Election Conventions

This page will be unlocked on June 6th, 2021 when the convention starts.

Rules and Info
1. Only mod candidates current staff can edit this. Please try to not edit this page.

2. You can put your responses in at any time before June 23rd 2021 at 11:59 PM.

3. Debate ends on June 23rd 2021 at 11:59 PM.

4. I suggest everytime you edit, you save your response in the case that an edit conflict happens.

5. Don't be afraid of hurting the other candidates feelings, in the end it's all just criticism so there is no need to be offended by anything.

6. Feel free to leave questions in the comments.

Schedule
https://big-nate-comments.fandom.com/f/p/4400000000000284600

Mod Convention
Swasimcool: Welcome to the mod convention. We have four final candidates and those are Moon Man is gone, MartSays, 23Aee and 0 Avatar. My first question is to Moon Man is gone. What are your plans for being staff. Will you stay as thread mod as that worked for you last time or will you try to use the admin role better this time?

Moon Man: Totally depends on the circumstances. I may be flexible at times, but I do think that for a good amount of time I'd stick to mod, then I'd work it up if I feel that i can dedicate the time to it.

Swasimcool: MartSays, many people have criticized you for spamming edits on unfinished fanon pages, what do you say to these people?

MartSays: Spam? When did I spam edits? It was fast but like, the reason I edited them was because they were unfinished. Categories, spelling errors, etc. Like is that a typo or something? It makes perfect sense to edit an unfinished page. As for spamming edits, I have no idea what they are talking about. Maybe it was making short fanons? But I saw lots of fanon pages that were just as short so I did them, it was only a few times. It may be unfair but I've stopped doing that.

Swasimcool: Alright. I hope that clears everything up. 23Aee, you've also been criticized for your edits on FANON pages. Would you like to clear anything up as well?

23Aee: I haven't heard any criticism on my edits on FANON pages. If that's so, I'd like to clear everything up by saying that the edits have only been grammar fixes and removing unecessary catgories. I saw Henry do it so I decided that it was probably a good idea to do it anyways. Maybe if I was bothered by that criticism I would respond to it by not doing it anymore, but I only avoid those posts. Furthermore, I'm not sure where you got this info, but thanks for telling me.

Swasimcool: 0 Avatar, you have not been getting as much votes as the others. Do you want to say anything that may convince others to vote for you?

No Avatar: To be completely honest, I feel like I have been overlooked. People are voting Mart because he became the new p-dog but I have kept a consistent amount of edits per week and have not been fluctuate like Mart or Moon Man. So yeah, I would suggest I’m more stable than the others even with less edits.

Swasimcool: Kinda makes sense. Chase asks this question to Moon man is gone; "[Moon] has been way less active then MartSays, so, what indicates that he will use his mod position better then him?"

Moon Man: That's the main "selling point" for Martsays and his supporters, and in terms of edits: You simply don't need edits for discussions mod, obviously that'd change if we're talking content and above. Also, I feel like many of mart's edits are a bit dicey. Not dicey enough to be against the rules (but I'm not sure) but there are moments where there's cheeky edits. As for being more active in discussions, I am definitely more active there, if I'm not replying or commenting I'd be reading other people's posts or looking at old posts, i reload the page in case someone's done something new. There's also the fact that newer users usually get tons of edits and things like that as they have not been used to it/ bored of it yet. You can probably remember how me, young and many others were when we were new, we got tons of edits in a week, but as with all newer users this declines at a certain point, and does not reflect how they actually are long term. I'm very active in discussions in a long term way. Sorry for the long post.

Swasimcool: MartSays, what do you think of what Moon just said?

MartSays: Hey, I do get some edits per week. If I'm really lazy I could do only one but usually on normal weeks I rack up like 40-50. As for the cheeky edits as Moon calls them, I don't really remember the last time I did them. Moon is correct, but his point also powers me more, just because Moon has the most edits and posts than me doesn't mean I'm necessarily more active than Moon, I assume he's not active as me but it's hard to tell as he only posts and comments in small bursts every once in a while. I don't really think I need to talk about the reloading thing. True, newer users usually rack up more edits than older ones, although swasimcool has gone from 11,000 edits to 13,000 in the time gen 5 were active who have gotten over 1000, his point still stands with most of the wiki. But then again, posting and editing doesn't really matter when you get the spot. Although, I have to say that he was demoted for a reason two times in fact. I remember one of them was severe inactivity, he does seem more active now but I would appreciate if one of you people could tell me the other reason, whether it was the same or not. Sorry for the long post as well.

Swasimcool: 23Aee is next. What is the major thing you want to change on the wiki, 23Aee?

23Aee: Well, I think my main goal here is to revert vandalism and make the wiki a more active and funner place. I think, however, I play a very small role on the wiki as a semi-respected editor. The one thing that's certain is that I'll use my position to the fullest if I do get mod.

Swasimcool: 0 Avatar, what major thing do you want to change on the wiki?

No Avatar: I don’t feel like the wiki needs any major changes besides deleting the fanon articles. Another thing is the necocoking by anonymous users (ok it’s just aee) and even though message boards do not count as necocoking it should, I still get a ridiculous amounts of notifications because of this.

Swasimcool: Interesting output. Moon man, you have not been getting that much support from the gen 5's. What can you do to sway their vote to you?

Moon man: Well, under the comment section of this page I've shown how dicey mart's edits can be. The speed of mart's edits and activity are their main point, and yet not all of it is honest. There's also experience, and the fact that my timezone is different. We've already got plenty of mods who moderate, but all throughout the same time and doing the same things. I, however, am awake when they probably are not. I believe most people don't change their votes no matter what they're told.

Swasimcool: MartSays, what is one major thing you want to do for the wiki as moderator?

MartSays: One thing I would wish to do, even with such a minor position is to make sure that people like Scout won't just abuse the rules, he would laugh about not being able to ban him because we can't ban people for things outside of Fandom but any slur, insult, vandalism, or insult will be punished. I would keep deleting every comment anybody makes if they keep doing so if I have to.

Swasimcool: 23Aee, what makes you a better candidate than everyone else here?

23Aee: Actually, I think nothin. I'm the newest candidate in the election, and although I have a few more posts than MartSays, he makes up for that with his huge amount of edits and CSS knowledge. So yeah, nothing at all.

ItsP-dog and NatTheOne are now in the election.

Swasimcool: ItsP-dog, why do you think the new generation, a group of users you have just met, vote for you?

ItsP-dog: cuz im cool

ItsP-dog: Ok fr tho, I think its because I used to be super active and they look up to my old activity and try to match it themselves

Crat Convention
Swasimcool: Welcome to the crat convention. My first question is to Henry, what do you think is the biggest challenge facing the wiki and how do you plan to solve it?

Henry Hudson: It's clear that the biggest problem is the recent increase number of trollers on the wiki. In the past week, the number of accounts the staff has banned has probably been a new high. However, since it's summer, I will make sure the staff is more active so that we can immediately get rid of anyone who trolls, spams, etc.

Swasimcool: Yoda, do you agree with Henry?

Yoda: No

Swasimcool: Alright then, what do you think is the biggest challenge facing the wiki and how do you plan to solve it?

Yoda: yea bro the biggest challenge is that theres like so many new users coming onto the wiki, and presumably many of them haven like read the rules and also the rules don't seem to be clear enough. For example Henry made a blog post about Ban appeal. So Im gonna like make more things clear and stuff. People have a problem with the fanon stuff. New rule to make it more clear so that more will understand what to do and can't do if makes sense. Will figure that out like later. You may ask: Why Haven't you done it already?? Why henry not done it already. I would add a very funny remark But i kinda have to be serious. Sry

Swasimcool: Hmm, I see. Henry, what do you have to say to this?

Henry: Well, the rules are slapped onto the front page. It's really sort of expected that people read the rules before editing. Nonetheless, I have addressed several of the rules (as Yoda has pointed out in the blog post thingy) and I've added a few new Discussion and regular wiki rules to improve the community.

Swasimcool: We are gonna move on to our first topic which is CSS. Yoda what do you new things do you plan to bring to the CSS?

Yoda: idk

Swasimcool: Henry, what will you add to the CSS?

Henry: Personally, since I'm not an expert with CSS, I don't have any specific that I'd like to bring, but I'm definitely open to ideas from the staff.

Swasimcool: Yoda, what's another thing you think the wiki needs fixing on?

Yoda: Well since the new changes there is a lot of fixing that is needed for Templates and stuff.

Swasimcool: Anything else you think needs fixing, Henry?

Henry Hudson: Personally, I'd like the wiki to be more secure since the staff has had to ban over 40 people this month already. I also want to bring back community activities, since editing games are still kinda dead, and most fun stuff goes on in Discussions. Another one of my prior goals was to better enforce the rules, but I think I'm doing that one fairly well as of now. In response to Yoda, I think our templates are perfectly fine. We have a quality template for pretty much everything that needs one, maybe except Featured Article.