User blog comment:Flamefang/Prospective Retrospection/@comment-3560733-20150112203306/@comment-893709-20150113013439

I completely agree that the quality of new users isn't something we can completely control, but I don't think the quality of our users over all is fully dependent upon who joins. Keep in mind that many of CHB's best users (and some of our own) began as troublemakers or firebrands. One of the things that I meant to imply in the above was that one of the consequences of the administration becoming distant from the main user base was basically that they failed to serve as role models anymore. New users were often alienated, and as the visible administration (chatmods and rollbacks) grew worse, so did this problem. New users, somewhat depending upon their original quality, can be come great users with the right guidance.

As for policy my message outside voting and fine tuning was mainly one of caution. The wiki is still new, and so we can't prepare for absolutely everything. I think it's just important that once we have robust policy in place that we remember that it's a tool in our arsenal as we go forward, and that it can be changed according to the times and developing situations.