Forum:New Staff Channel Discussion

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What

To get straight to my point, I think we should erase security desk. Delete it completely. To replace it, I believe we should have a new staff channel,(preferably by a new name since “security desk” carries negative connotations now), and have this channel be viewable to anyone in the server, but only staff can message in it. I have that exact thing implemented on The Outer Worlds Wiki discord server, if anyone wants to take a look.

Why

I think everyone pretty much knows the rationale, but basically it’s simply creating distrust between the staff and the user base. It’s been revealed staff has discussed personal things about a user without the users permission, and also it’s been used for staff to go into the channel and throw an insult at a regular user who is not in there. It creates more problems than it’s worth. I also think it’s fair for a user to see the decision-making process behind their ban rationale.

Let your thoughts be heard below. President Autumn 20:12, May 12, 2019 (UTC)

Comments

I agree. It’s not like what we’re saying really has to be hidden anyways, unless it’s against the rules (which shouldn’t happen anyways). We are essentially elected officials and should be transparent to our “constituents”. Laat the Survivor (talk) 20:16, May 12, 2019 (UTC)

Definitely needs to happen. We've had this situation far too many times, of staff discussing users in a bad light within the safety of the staff channel, discussing them in a way that would get banned or atleast warned in any other channel. Despite what alot of staff says, comments have had to be leaked in order for action to finally be taken on them, its quickly becoming a fact that despite their efforts (if there are any), rules arent being enforced equally in the Staff channel. LovinglyGaslight (talk) 20:17, May 12, 2019 (UTC)

It shouldn't be deleted, it should be made public, where we users can see but not write. I can only imagine how much crap you have said on all of us, and now you just want it to disappear? We all have a right as users to know what has been said about us. There is concern for "confidential information" in there that can't be given out, as Cor said, but then you can simply remove that, if it shouldn't be made public, before the whole chat is made accessible to all of us, as it should be. Hauganz (talk) 20:23, May 12, 2019 (UTC)

i understand where you’re coming from there, and that prompts me to include that as a voting option when this inevitably goes to a vote after the end of the discussion. President Autumn 20:27, May 12, 2019 (UTC)