Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-4748628-20150525013604/@comment-4029377-20150526191817

BlackJackBlack wrote: What's all this? Just look at yourselves! There's a political debate about user trust vs. abuse of power in the SONIC FANON WIKI. Isn't that absolutely, hilariously mindboggling? I thought this was a place where people went to have fun. I'm sure people have fun in some roleplays or whatever, but has anyone even realized why people don't frequent this site much anymore? All you have to do to figure it out is look in the mirror, and you will see one of many users who are so concerned about being stigmatized as garbage content creators that they become too serious for their own good. It's a website dedicated to Sonic, the free spirit, the blue blur. Where in the world does that translate into people scrambling for more quality, less shameful, articles, and more debates over how much power should allocated to this person or that? Are admins making sure everyone's having fun, or are they struggling to make a wiki that the average onlooker won't pass by and laugh at? Whatever it is, I don't see "Sonic" when I come here-I see arguments, regulations, and arguments about regulations popping up everywhere.

Screw the debate on creativity vs. control. How about seriousness vs. fun takes a center stage for once? Maybe people outside this wiki don't respect you because you take these trivial fancharacter articles flashing across your computer screen a bit too seriously. Maybe they don't respect how this website filled with fictional content has been absorbed into you as a real part of your lives! Maybe they WOULD respect you if everyone here was a bit more friendly, happy, and all-around more laid back. This wiki is just one social gathering among many. Nothing about it is special. It's the people IN it who make it special! Be people that other people want to be around, and they will surely come to you! Just be happy, darn it!

I never respected the content on this website. Even today I'm just one of many bystanders who passes by and laughs at this place. But how is everone going to have the same tastes as me? I know you're not all just some usernames flashing across my browser, so even though I'm an outsider my heart still goes out to you. I see your frustration and I would love nothing more than to see the people here rebound and see this werbsite as a place where you, all of you, can be happy, ridiculous content or no. How many years have you all been trying to reform this wiki? How has any of this brought more people to the website? There are less people than ever here today. I implore you, try to figure out rules that maximize what's fun and minimize what isn't, rather than making rules that attack poor quality. Because if you keep on this path I can assure you of one thing: you will get your quality articles in the end, but at the cost of so many users who just came here to have a good time. Please listen to what I've said here, however harsh, and take it to heart. It's not too late to turn your fortunes around.

This is entirely my point. I'm against this current legistaltion because it takes away from the average joe Sonic fan member who just wants to post a character article for fun and roleplay. This is the type of behavior I see on many a fandom site and it's flat out ridiculous. Do we have to turn a website meant for magical talking animal hybrids into a big authoritartarion site where the average Sonic fan is turned down for the popular miniority? Can't we all just step back and take a fandom for what it is, a fandom?

Honestly I find people who try to overregulate things within fandoms to basically be defeating their own purpose. I hardly ever have problem just roleplaying with random people on the forums and just making up roleplays on DA.