User blog comment:Zanzan28/Respect for the Wiki and Meetings/@comment-4246876-20130407183718

As a former bureaucrat, I completely understand Zan's feelings. It's very annoying when you schedule a meeting, and hardly anybody shows up. Once, I had scheduled a very important administrator meeting, and minimal admins showed up. In fact, I had to reschedule the meeting because so few showed up. That's what happened today. Not being able to show up because of real life and not choosing to show up is two completely different things. If you just didn't feel like coming to the meeting, maybe you should rethink about your position in Zan's department, and, more importantly, think about if you are really dedicated enough to be an administrator on this wiki. Meetings are a very important part of this wiki, and the success of them determines the success of this wiki. Everytime a meeting must be rescheduled, it delays the implementation of what was going to be discussed at that meeting. It's important to let the host of the meeting know if you won't be at the meeting, as the meeting will be rescheduled to a different date if so many people can't make it. But don't think "Oh, I'm just one person. It doesn't matter." If everyone thinks like that, then a problem occurs. It's very irratating when you must reschedule because people don't show up. It's not a problem to reschedule if people tell you ahead of time. Meetings are almost always scheduled weeks in advance, so it gives you plenty of time to figure out if you will be able to make it, or not. And if you can't, you let the host know. Hopefully next time this won't happen, and if you were free and just decided not to show up, do some serious thinking about if being a rollback or administrator is really a good fit for you, on this wiki.