User blog:South Ferry/Why Staff Should be Equalized

The complete and total removal of the Chancellor role, the General Secretary role, and complete eradication of any custom roles, is clearly the most logical choice. FANDOM staff stopped giving out custom roles a while ago. We are going to follow the Terms of Use, which explicitly state:

'These are community projects, not personal websites. They are not owned by their founders, nor does the founder's opinion carry more weight in disagreements than any other user's opinion. Consensus and cooperation should be the primary means for organizing a community.'

There is absolutely no legitimate reason to maintain a role that is above anyone else. Nobody "owns" a Wiki, there is only one organization that owns Wikis -- FANDOM, Powered by Wikia. FANDOM has simply provided a service that allows you to create and maintain an online encyclopedia. A Wiki that requires one or two individuals, with the same rights as others to make major decisions themselves, should be completely embarrassed with itself. The community and staff should be able to come together, and make a decision. Not some figure that feels the need to be "IN CHARGE." The user-rights are the same, an elusive "Chancellor" does not have anymore rights than another bureaucrat. In fact, for the majority of the time the current "Chancellor" was on, they did very few things, and whenever they did something -- it was often deemed controversial. In fact they completely agreed themselves the title means nothing. So of course, there is no need for this. I, the former General Secretary, a right previously above others, agree it is un-needed aswell.