Forum:Reasons why someone wants to be an admin


 * Copied from my talk page. It's not a one-person decision. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 07:19, October 7, 2013 (UTC)

Thanks
Thank you for that link explaining everything you can do as an administrator, it's an easy "how to." And yes, there are a lot of things I'd like to change or "modify" if I were to become an admin. I would add badges here as many wikia's do this and is a way of thanking and rewarding participants for contributing. Another thing I'd try to change is the theme or "back picture" on the wikia, we could replace the picture at the back with Gandalf riding with a recent picture of The Hobbit movie backdrop that I can create in Photoshop. Of course I wouldn't just change it, I'd probably have a vote for members or other admins to vote upon. Lastly, I might get the Chat Box up and running again as a "help section." No one every uses the chat and I think it is a huge waste on here. I'd like to moniter is and make sure people are keeping chats clean and everything. So yes, if I could be nominated to be an admin, I'd really like that a lot, it seems like you guys could always use a little more help here. :)

Dairyman88 (talk) 02:25, October 7, 2013 (UTC)

Badges are fun, but there is a risk that some badge-hungry contributor would make silly little edits or recategorize every page just to get points, as has happened on the Civilization Wikia. I don't have an opinion about the backdrop. I personally wouldn't use chat anywhere, so I don't care what happens to it either. -- Robin Patterson (Talk) 07:19, October 7, 2013 (UTC)