C.Syde's Wiki talk:Admin Portal

This is the Admin Portal Talk Page, abbreviated as the APTP. This page is used by administrators to discuss administrative action, responsibilities, and tasks.

While non-administrators are more than welcome to read, browse, and link to discussions on this talk page, they cannot actively take part in discussions. If you wish to contact an administrator, or if you require assistance with anything else that is administrator-related, please start a thread at the administrators' noticeboard. Otherwise if you need to discuss or share your opinions on what is going on with the administrative issues, please do so here.

History
When C.Syde created the Admin Portal Talk Page, he was initially going to allow rollbackers to actively participate in whatever discussions that may someday take place here, but prohibit the participation of non-rollbackers. This was because rollbackers are considered to be a group of more experienced users, and are a level up from regular users. He also did not like the idea of locking the page to administrators only.

However as C.Syde became more used to the admin tools and developed a stronger concept of admin-ship, he realized that his cents as an admin had allowed himself to open his mind to the possibility that locking the page to administrators only, seemed like the best practice. And now that he was an administrator - although on a test wiki - he didn't see any reason to oppose the idea of preventing non admins from being able to edit this page.

Apparently his only cents for opposing the idea of preventing non admins from being able to edit admin only pages were for as long as he wasn't an admin himself.

Recent History
As of the 12th February 2015, C.Syde65 has found a solution to allow non-admins to discuss and share their opinions on what goes on with the administrative issues at C.Syde's Test Wiki without directly getting involved with them. Note that the administrative issues are still not driven by community consent, so don't be disappointed if any objections or opinions made by yourself as a non-admin are unheeded.

Ilovethesims199 socks
Hello admins (or not, there are no admins on this wiki other than myself). Here is a discussion regarding the latest news on the activity surrounding our friend Ilovethesims199. C.Syde55, a C.Syde65 imposter, is the latest sock-puppet of Ilovethesims199.

I think it must have been on the same day I blocked this sock-puppet for sock-puppetry and impersonating me, that I sent a request to Wikia Staff requesting that the imposter's account be globally disabled. A few days later, I received the following message: "Hi C.Syde65,

Thanks for contacting Wikia. Imposter disabled.

Hope this helps."

- Sean McGilvray, Wikia Community Support, Trust & Safety

While I'm not exactly certain how this has helped - since there's no visible signs that the im-poster really has been disabled, (e.g. the account doesn't seem to have been globally disabled) - I can only guess that the actions wikia staff have taken have yet to be discovered.

After all this is probably my first crack at what it truly feels like to be an administrator. And this is the first time I've had a reason for blocking a user on my test wiki, besides out of precaution. I suppose I'd better just get back to editing, and block any more sock-puppets that happen to find their way into my test wiki, block the ILTS199 socks that have tried to contact me at ModtheSims, and ignore the socks that try to contact me on the wikipedia.

--  C.Syde  ( talk &#124;  contribs ) 08:04, February 19, 2015 (UTC)