February Mod Election 2021 Conventions

The debate happens once again! Since people wanted to do the debate on a page, here we go!

Rules and Info
1. Only Wooden, Hobbes and current staff can edit this. Please try to not edit this page.

2. You can put your responses in at any time before Feb 20th at 11:59 PM.

3. Debate ends on February 20th 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.

Feb Mod Debate 2021
Swasimcool: What are your plans to increase activity. (To Wooden, first.)

Wooden: I would host big events where you can win lots of awesome prizes. From what I seen these past 8 months I was here, whenever a competition is occuring, users would want a prize for taking time out of there day to work hard on improving the wiki. Also, to gain more users that would want to edit on a wiki like this, I would find as many big Nate fans as I can (because this wiki is a community of big nate fans ofc) and get them to join BNCW.

Swasimcool: I like the answer. Hobbes, what are your plans to increase activity?

Hobbes: about the same as wooden, but an edit competition. because I noticed was when edit league was going on we had a lot of activity because everyone wants to win, and to win you need to edit, and editing boosts wiki activity.

Swasimcool: Nice, ok. Wooden here is your question. You have been criticized for your lack of “pages” you have actually made, many of them being joke pages. People are concerned you don’t actually make good contributions to the wiki, are they wrong?

Wooden: No they aren't. But at the same time, I made joke pages for entertainment. I wasn't so concerned about contributions back then. But as of now, I am so I don't think they are wrong. However, that probably won't stop me from possibly making them in the future.

Swasimcool: I see. Next up Hobbes. You have been criticized for not having a lot of discussion posts compared to your opponent, given the fact that discussions is a lot more active than editing right now, how can you be sure that voters aren’t going to choose Wooden Board for moderator because of his discussion post amounts?

Hobbes: Although wooden might have more posts than me, that doesn’t mean that I am not active in discussion and can’t be quick to lock drama causing posts. And I’m almost at 700 posts, that’s quite a lot.

Swasimcool: Ok this question for Wooden now. You said in your application you would edit a lot more if you were moderator, however given previous promises by users such as GarfieldMN, they were shown not to actually have contributed the edits they promised to do. How can the wiki make sure you will not just be like the other candidates.

Wooden: I'm gonna set a goal for each week. So what I would do is get for example 800 edits by Saturday, I set the goals on Sunday. Users can check my edits and see I'm actually editing more. You can see what I'm saying here right?

Swasimcool: I see. That seems like a good plan. Alright now time for the last question. This is for Hobbes. Your campaign slogan was saying that you were the voice of the wiki users. However this idea has been one since October 2019, and almost always has failed time and time again, the staff member just ignoring the users after a while. Are you the one to break the chain, if so, how?

Hobbes: I think my comment does a pretty good job of explaining, and by decisions that the staff needs to make I mean things like blocking a specific user Swasimcool: Ok anyone can answer this first. Why do you think you can do a better job than Hobbes/Wooden.

Hobbes: well, I think I can be more active and judge things a little better than wooden (no offense).