Board Thread:Wiki Improvement/@comment-29956848-20160812051058/@comment-5518179-20160813002927

It [the bot] was irrelevant the entire time because chat was never used in the first place. I was more angered by the loss of commitment I put into making that bot then fear the chat was going to go to shit. You can't make nothing go to shit.

Anyways, consider me a bit of an outsider at this point because I'm practically semi-retired, but I've pretty much summed up this wiki's community. I have pretty much put everyone in one of these groups, but what I'm meaning to say is. Most of our issues seem to arise in chat, which we focus heavily on. Some of the things are right, yes, our wiki is declining, while some things tend to be exaggerated or worse.
 * Half a dozen or more chat goers, who think this place is dying because the chat, new technology, forums, and policies are swiftly losing their luster on the wiki. Most of this demographic was never or is no longer a Sonic fan.
 * The hundreds, if not thousands of lurkers, making up our large number of active wiki members. We want these people to participate, but we know nothing about them. Call them dark matter because they are everywhere yet we can't see them.
 * The dozen or two wiki members, who are active once a day, once a week, and occaisionally come in and out from the previous group. These users notice nothing wrong, and are almost always Sonic fans. These are probably the core of our wiki, and perhaps the most ignored demographic here.

Yes, this wiki is dying, but the awards aren't a distraction from that. I believe we're working ourselves too hard and are beginning to point at every possible thing as a reason for our wikis decline, first the admins, now the awards, what's next? Jews? Gays? Armenians? Kulaks? Lol.