Board Thread:Special Admin Messages/@comment-25793989-20180422222347

Hiya! (Again..)

So, considering my first proposal gained so much support, I have gained enough confidence to share my (probably) unpopular opinion about something that has been bugging me for some time.

In fact, they are 4 things, but they are all very similar.

Let's start.

PUBLIC ENEMIES.

Public enemies are a very controversial topic, and I am here to share my opinions on them.

However, my opinion is not what you would expect.

I think public enemies are the reason our wiki is slowly dying. But it isn't the actual people behind them that are causing the trouble, it is us labelling them as such. Labelling people as public enemies will do one of the two:

1. Boost their adrenaline, nerve and egotistical energy as being the 'PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE' of a small-ish fandom group and decides to fuel it further

or

2. Make them annoyed that they have been considered 'PUBLIC ENEMY NUMBER ONE' as you know, it may offend them, and they try to start a war because they feel offended that they were labelled as someone who offends people.

Both situations usually end in war.

Which brings me to my second topic,

WARS.

Wars seem to be a very big part of the community. They seem to occur often, often enough for us to write a whole page describing each one in detail. But wars don't need to exist.

Our fandom doesn't have to die!

In my eyes, wars only occur when both sides continue to fight. If we simply stop, it'll essentially be fine! Just report the user to FANDOM, and leave them alone! The end. It works out for all of us, and we don't have to worry about some crazy jerk. We don't need to worry at all!

Wars are very rarely worth fighting in the first place. MIneFactions doesn't have to be our problem. TDW doesn't have to be our problem. There are only few wars that needed to be fought - for example, the First Trollpasta War or the Second Trollpasta War, or, heck, even the Chicken Controversy (the anynomous user with that hate page), but we only needed to fight those because those were actually threatening OUR wiki. Fraud wikis suck. But they are barely affecting OUR wiki, merely annoying us.

Wars don't need to be fought! We do not need to worry!

And now to my third point,

THE DEFCON TABLE.

This is a very small problem, however I feel having a massive thing on our home page indicating the likelyhood of 'war' isn't the best way to attract visitors. Not only that, but having the rating on high when there is actually not a problem increases the stress of users and causes them to freak out, no matter how slight.

And my final problem is

THE RULES.

You have already saw my post about lighter punishments for creepypasta believers. And Fico (rip) has already looked over and remade the rules. But I still feel as if the rules are wrong and we are putting our priorities in the wrong order.

We should be making the wiki a fun, happy place for everybody. This is not to say swearing or what not should be banned, however I feel as if we should make our community more welcoming to new users, and simply everyone in general.

The fact that we have prioritised banning new users because of their opinion of a pasta over flaming and insulting is really sad. If anybody insults anybody badly (not just saying 'this pasta sucks' or 'you are stupid dumb ass') then they should be banned quickly. Am I right? We need to get our punishments for these rules right.

Well, that's it.

This is simply my opinion, and once again, I would like to hear everyone discuss it nicely.

Thank youuus! 