User blog comment:Gamedezyner/The Dismal State of this Wiki/@comment-1272757-20120805233357

You know what? I was going to avoid this, but quite frankly I'm just gonna speak my mind. Why? Because quite frankly I'm f***ing sick of all this bull.

You and other Users whine, complain, insult, and demean recolors and the people who make them, while continuously trying to find ways to push them off of this wiki. And y'know something, after all this time two words sum it up for me: "elitist bullcrap".

During all this time, here's a list of things I've never seen anyone who's complained or b****ed about recolors do:
 * 1) Tell people that recolors are looked down upon by some Users, and that using recolors is at one's own risk.
 * 2) Offer to help someone find an alternative as a picture, either by suggesting the owner do their best to draw a picture, draw it themselves, or even ask someone they know to do it as a favor.
 * 3) Suggest using an appearance section and description instead of a recolored picture.

Not one of these. I have seen NO-ONE make any effort to HELP people with recolored images, or even bother trying to help people work on their articles! All of you are too busy complaining about and sneering at lower-quality articles and trying to find ways to get rid of them faster. For f***'s sake, rules 4 through 7 on articles encourage you guys to actually be helpful and courteous to your fellow Users, and actually try to give a damn about whether or not they need help, not just whether or not the article needs to be deleted.

Sure, I don't try and help every person with a lousy article or recolor, but I at least treat them with respect and don't go dissing them for whatever choice of artistic representation they made, or whatever their article is lacking. And quite frankly it's a hell of a lot more than some people can say, which is both sad and to be absolutely blunt, disgusting. This wiki is for everyone and anyone to edit and contribute, not "people who are or know people who are good artists", or "people who can write high-quality articles and characters in their first go", but everyone and anyone, and it's high time a lot of people pulled their heads out of their @$$es, brought their noses back down, and realized that instead of being elitist jerks who insult everything that doesn't meet their standards, they could be spending that time being constructive and actually helping people meet those standards.

I am sad to say this, but it's not just the low-quality articles that are a problem, but the community itself. People are either too immature to know any better, or the people who are mature enough are cynical jack@$$es who would much rather delete an article and belittle a rookie than help make the article as good as it could potentially be.

There, that's what I have to say on this whole matter.