User blog:Gamedezyner/That's it

READ THIS WHOLE THING As you all know, I have been attempting to help SFW get cleaned up for many months now. In that short time I have created a lot of new things that make this process much easier. Here's a short breakdown of what I've done so far: I did all of this within a period of less than 6 months. In that time I have only seen the same handful of people even acknowledge the motion for cleaning the place up, however I continue to see everyone complain about the state of the wiki.
 * I have shared many of my own ideas on how to make things better.
 * I created SFWBOT to reduce the burden on the admins here.
 * I created new templates to help better manage the articles that do not meet standards, and make them easier to find to mark them for deletion.
 * I wrote new standards from scratch for SFW in order to eliminate loopholes that allow the terrible quality articles to continue existing here.
 * I've worked on countless other behind the scenes codes and things to help make this wiki a better place.

Those of you who have been helping me, you know who you are, and I thank you. For those of you who haven't bothered to pay attention to all these attempts to make this place better, and who haven't done anything to help out... GET OFF YOUR LAZY ASS AND HELP, OR STOP COMPLAINING ABOUT THIS PLACE!

I am sick and tired of wasting my time trying to help this place when nobody is willing to do the same. I feel like there's only about 10 people who even give a damn about this wiki, and it makes me wonder why I bother. I am a busy man and I have much better things I could be doing with the time I've devoted to this place to give this place the help it drastically needs, yet I still spend my time here.

The bottom line is this: If I don't start seeing more people helping clean this place up and taking a part in the community, I WILL REMOVE ALL MY CODE CONTRIBUTIONS AND LEAVE. I refuse to leave my custom code on here if I will no longer be frequenting the site. It is something that I put a lot of time and effort into, so I am providing it for free use under the condition that I am still an active user here at SFW. For those of you who don't understand the implications of that, let me spell it out.
 * If I leave here, the following things will happen:

And finally, OTHERS WILL FOLLOW ME. If I leave, there will be others who will give up at that point as well, and will leave with me. We almost lost a bunch of other admins when Xi left, don't lose the only users who actually maintain this place. It will fall apart.
 * No more pretty infoboxes
 * No more high end coded templates
 * No more chathax
 * No more SFWBOT to delete hundreds of articles at a time
 * This wiki will NEVER move

I'm not trying to start a riot. I'm not starting drama. I'm just sick and tired of asking nicely and being ignored. Nobody is doing anything, and it's time for change. I won't stand by and watch this place sink further and further into the crap hole it's already nose deep in.

This is directed at EVERYONE, no matter how new. I don't care if you have 50,000 edits or 5. You can still help get things moving. Here's what I want to see:
 * EVERYONE needs to VOTE on things that are brought up for a vote. Don't shrug it off. We have a few hundred users on this wiki, so why is it that something like an entire rewrite of the standards only gets votes like 10 votes? I had to shove that page in people's faces and yell at them to get them to say something on the talk page! This is a big deal!
 * A prime example of this is right here. This change to the construction policy was voted for by only 5 USERS. Most of which I don't think even actually read the policy very thoroughly. Just read it and tell me whether you think that actually would have passed if people could really vote on it.


 * EVERYONE can help clean up!
 * PARTICIPATE IN THE COMMUNITY AGAIN! Everyone on here either hides in the chat and never touches the wiki, or edits their pages and never participates in anything else.

Ok... I've said my peace. Please, no pointless comments. They will be ignored. If you have a problem with anything I've said here, you can take it up with ME. I will be happy to discuss things with everyone rationally via comments here, on any of the pages I have mentioned, or on my personal talk page. Let me make this very clear: I don't want to do this. SFW is forcing me.