Board Thread:Fun and Games/@comment-26044830-20170319003120/@comment-26031225-20170421014658

December 22th, 2016: FSM creates a blog post where he publishes a series of reforms to improve how the Wikia is run. The most important ones are regarding the inactive staff and the staff promotion system. The blog receives mixed responses with newer users supporting the reforms a long with a couple 2015 people, while most older users (Namely Batran, Asdf and Midria) disagree with them. This generates a division among the community, people start refering to the two sides as Reformists (lead by FSM) and Conservatives (lead by Batran).

December 25th, 2016: The first reform is put in effect as FSM demotes inactive and "uncapable staff", the following staff is demoted permanentely; Disturbed, GoldenRebel, MOAP, Pezminer, Zukas, TOLF, Mervue, HappynHungry, JarJar, Percy, Ion and Infamous. Asdf and Mindria are instead downgraded to ContentMod and given the chance to prove that they are active and actually care about the wikia, if they do, they'll be promoted to Admins once again. Multi is downgraded to DiscussionsMod since he went from Chatmod to Admin. The demotions result in the Admin Council being reduced to 5 members; FSM, Viper, Ethan, Monsoon and Freaker.

December 26th, 2017: Drama ensues as Batran's supporters protest against the demotions, saying that it is actually a political purge to increase FSM's power and weaken the opposition. Batran says that the policies are "dictatorial" and he says that he will send a report to Wikia Staff to demote FSM for power abuse. FSM's supporters say that the demotions are only fair since these people had either left or didn't actually do anything as staff.

December 29th, 2019: Wikia Staff responds in favor of FSM, as he had providen evidence of the demoted users either misbeheaving or not contributing in the last months. They also say that another change of ownership would only make the wikia more unstable.

December 31th, 2016: Now that drama is starting to die out, FSM announces the Winter Staff Polls (since the ones done by Viper were technically an special election to select the new owner) which will be held under the new user promotion user. The application system will remain, but instead of the applicants being selected by admins, they will be elected by popular vote for a "mandate" of 3 months (the 3 candidates with the most votes will be selected, though this number may change depending of the wikia's situation). When their mandate ends, admins will decide, depending of their perfomance; to promote them permanently, to demote them or to give them more time to prove themselves. The applications are opened on the same day, resulting in a large influx of applicants.