User blog comment:LostInRiverview/Some thoughts about my role on The Sims Wiki/@comment-24258073-20150509041146

The administrators here, and certain administrators in particular, are so active in community affairs that we tend to drown out the voices, opinions, and ideas of non-administrators. ——— I don't want to agree with this but there are few occasions where I just can't agree with anything else.

That "only administrators" would be smart enough to come up with ideas. ——— Nope. I remember coming up with some things as a non administrator, or even helping to solve issues.

The administrators are more experienced and longer-serving than non-administrators ——— Well it depends. As a whole I would think not. Some non-administrators were administrators once, or are administrators on other wikis. And I know that being an administrator doesn't automatically make me more experienced, and being a non-administrator doesn't automatically make me less. I have always felt that it's really more up to a person than their user rights, and that if they have the experience, why not use it?

It seems that nothing on the wiki ever gets discussed and accepted unless an admin has personally led the charge or seems to have "given their blessing" to the idea. ——— I remember doing those sorts of things for users who were less experienced than myself, usually users who had only been on this wiki for a few months.

Every time I propose a new initiative, start a vote or lead a discussion, I fear I am reinforcing the idea that only administrators — and even among administrators, only the most experienced and active — can start or lead those discussions. I cloak my headstrong actions in the idea of bold action, with some confidence that no one will speak out against what I am doing. Otherwise, I start yet another wiki discussion which invariably concludes the exact point or nearly the same point that I am proposing. ——— I can honestly say that I know that you're not trying to derail discussions to get in your way, even though it may occasionally seem like it.

I come around again and again to the idea of resigning, of leaving this position and leaving the wiki. As I said, I doubt my will to participate would allow me to do this, and in any case I have no desire to abandon the wiki. At times, though, I feel that my departure may ultimately do more to help than it will to hurt the wiki. By leaving, I might finally open the door for newer users to get their feet wet in tackling the issues of the wiki. By exiting, I might take my gravitas out of community discussions, where I again often fear that my participation unfairly tips the outcome to my favor. At the end of the day, I know that if I were to leave the wiki tomorrow and never return, the wiki would get by just as well. We've lost several very active administrators over the years and there has been no lasting damage done. But again, I don't wish to leave. ——— I wouldn't like the idea of you resigning, and you certainly wouldn't have to do it, although I must say, it might actually open the door for newer users. While it's true that no one is an administrator forever, I would hate to see you resign.