Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20130320221142/@comment-122657-20130512044124

Pijuyo2 wrote: 1. I know I'm not needed, all I've done in this site is upload images. This is not an ego thing.

I disagree. We need all the help we can get. And even if you only do a part of the work that needs to be done, it's better than having no part done. There will always eventually be another person who can and will do the next step.

Pijuyo2 wrote: 2. I have no problem with people modifying or deleting my work, but I do have a problem with someone coming to me with a patronizing attitude and even blocking me.

As other Admins have said, I'm sure we're sorry for the way you were treated. We do the best we can to try to be reasonable and help people correct issues that are causing other people problems, but we're all human. Please try your best not to judge all of us by one interaction. :)

Pijuyo2 wrote: 3. Admins should know where they are standing. They are staff, for some reason, and thus they have (or, at least, they should have) a bigger interest on the site than the common contributors, and thus it SHOULD be their jobs to fill in the gaps from the contributors that put in their time to post things here, and who do it absolutely on good will, with nothing to gain from it. Admins should also do this with a smile, or at least without being a$$ holes.

I agree and disagree with parts of this statement. No one is getting paid here, and we're all volunteers, so there aren't assigned jobs. Hopefully, if anything, you were asked to make others' jobs easier later. As admins, we do have a higher stake in seeing the site progress, but as volunteers, we have no higher level of responsibility than any other user. We're as welcome to come and go, contribute or not contribute, or dig into projects or not. I'm sorry if seeing a staff or admin tag seems to be a misnomer.

Pijuyo2 wrote: 4. I wasnt even hurting the site with false information. I put all the data about the source of the images in the image titles, for the admin just to fill in the tag window. No research needed to be done, just the extra effort to fill in the tag window.

I've been working pretty hard off and on to fill in these missing tags, and it's never easy. Even with almost all of the information in the title, it's still a chore (as you experienced) to put it all in the right place and link it back to the source and contributors correctly. I don't blame anyone for not wanting to do it, but it needs to be done by someone eventually.

Pijuyo2 wrote: 5. I am, in fact, moving on as a contributor, to a site, which is also wiki, but the people who run it have managed to incorporate a drag n drop feature for uploading images. This is much more convenient for the regulars contributors, who have no other choice, but to take this stuff as a low priority hobby, such as myself.

That's too bad. We do our best to remain competitive, but are restricted by the software we are given to work with. We attempt to make it work where we can, but that's about the extent of our abilities. Feel free to check in back here from time to time and see if anything changes.

Pijuyo2 wrote: 5. I love this site a lot, and I plan to continue obtaining a lot of entertainment from it, as a reader, if you will allow so.

Always! We have millions of readers who never contribute an ounce. Don't feel like contributing is a requirement to be able to read here. :)