Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-29956848-20160812051058/@comment-25638472-20160812174218

Smash The Echidna wrote:

"what rock do you live under"

Autumn and Spring awards were dropped at least two years ago. And the autumn awards never even got off the ground in either of the two times it was hosted. This is old news, pal.

I always see you people saying stuff like "oh this wiki is going downhill" and "this community has so many problems that nobody is willing to fix" etc. I don't know what's going on in the chat, but when I look around here the only immediate problems I notice are the occasional vandals. People are editing their pages, roleplaying (maybe not quite as much as before,) and generally having a pretty okay time here. There's almost never any drama until someone instigates it with a thread like this. My beef with this is that people make such a big deal about the wiki's decline but few people actually state what the problem is, or make any suggestions on how to deal with it.

I know you stated a "problem" and made a "suggestion" to fix it, but again, see above because that's a moot point. And if you ask me, the SFW awards are the least of the wiki's problems anyway.

EDIT: And even then, are the problems of this wiki just so bad that we can't enjoy ourselves? Maybe it's just me, but who the heck cares about what the rest of the internet views us as? Dude, we're the Sonic Fanon Wiki. Sonic fan characters are made fun of no matter where you look. We are not here to cater to the opinions of outsiders. Sure we'd like to attract new members, and I like to think that we're doing an okay job with appealing to other Sonic fans. Why should we have to worry about the non-Sonic fans, too?

This is basically where I stand on the "issue" as well. Though I do notice that now there's some people who simply aren't Sonic fans (or even more loosely anthro fans) that feel like they should dictate how a Sonic fanon wiki should work. I recently had a conversation on a Skype chat where the whole "omg Sonic fanon wiki is dead" mentality, and they wanted to make a new Sonic fanon wiki (names are redacted to protect the innocent) which basically won't ever get off the ground.

I don't think the wiki's job is to cater to people that don't care much for it and would basically only care about it if it turned into a non Sonic wiki. There's still some Sonic fans that are a bit displeased by things, but only a couple, and from my observations the issue isn't with the wiki itself or anything.

Why is it that I'm not experiencing these mythical problems that you guys seem to have? I'm doing a Roleplay and it's been fun so far, been updating my pages and shorter works, and I haven't had the sudden urge to punt Sonic across the room for reasons. If a Sonic fan wants to come and tell me what they think the wiki's problems are, by all means they can. I won't deny there should probably be a little more support for people that want to strengthen their pages, for example. But.. Yeah. Smash said it better than I.