Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-61022-20190321112411/@comment-166-20190426031747

Nausiated wrote: [...]

Frankly, as far as I am concerned, the whole communicty concensus thing is broken. It's a joke. Jamie needs to have a more active role in decision making since none of us can agree on anything.

You're not wrong about this part. A good portion of challenges are my fault. I've definitely observed a breakdown of community cohesion in recent years. I recognize and acknowledge my role in how operations have been negatively affected.

As I see it, my lack of direct community leadership has had (at least) two effects:
 * An increased focus on democratizing operations (generally, a good thing)
 * An increased challenge dealing with trivial matters (generally, a bad thing)

During the "Jamie Administration," it wasn't really a democracy. As such, we were able to make changes very quickly. Sometimes (aka many, many times) the decisions I made were wrong. It caused the team frustration with inefficiencies and ultimately wasted hundreds of hours to rework things again.

If I can be frank, as well, I don't see why this needs to change here and now. As I said in my previous post: Is there a compelling, time-sensitive reason why a change needs to occur at this time?

There are SO MANY things to do. So many pages to left to edit. So many images to upload. So many errors to correct. So many features to enhance. So many readers to convert to editors.

I understand that we all do this for fun and a sense of accomplishment. We all enjoy different aspects of the work. Each of us has one (or more) tasks we despise (myself included). Some tasks aren't fun at all, but are vital to running a successful community. I think I understand this particular point better than ANYONE. Some of the things I've had to do to get us here most of you don't even know about and will never have to experience.

My humble request to EVERYONE is this: If we can't come to a consensus on something, move on. There's plenty of other things to do. Unless there's a compelling, time-sensitive reason why a particular change needs to occur, we all need to accept that there will always be things we can't change. There have been dozens of things beyond my control, even as a Bureaucrat. It wasn't always easy, but eventually I got over them and moved on.