Board Thread:Staff Discussion/@comment-31135394-20191218171046/@comment-31135394-20200118060349

Thank you so much for the response, Sannse!

Sounds like you read the rest of this thread so you can see the issues we're having. If you'll read the announcement I posted (linked in another of my posts above), you'll see in the comments that other users, including our sole Bureaucrat Annabeth, dislike what this will do to our Discussion Boards.

One of the new users who took advantage of the program started trying to casually "chat" with the advisor they chose. Such behaviour is against our Discussion Board rules. But since none of the advisors are local, we can't expect them to know our rules. So I was faced with the delimma of making it an exception since it was part of the Advisor Program, or deleting it before one of the kids who frequent our Discussion Boards (and if you read everything above, yes, most are literally children) use it as an excuse to start breaking that rule themselves. You can see where this can create problems.

And as Lady said above, none of the users who selected an advisor have followed up. They, too, were likely children who saw that "Select an Advisor" button and simply wanted to see what it did. They probably didn't have any intention of editing anything. So all they did was create a pointless post in Discussions and an advisor recieved a notification for nothing.

Again, I'm not active on any other wikis so I can't speak from experience, but it sounds like our wiki opperates very differently than most. And though this program may be a god send to other wikis, it's just not a good fit for ours. And I personally don't like what this is already doing to Discussion Boards, and would really like to see things returned to how they were before the program launched.

Thanks for hearing me out!