Board Thread:Special Admin Messages/@comment-26533608-20200112211153/@comment-44468099-20200113232644

Popstar792 wrote: I kinda disagree with you Mandroid. I get that we all have done good for the wiki and have contributed to the uprising of the wiki somehow, but seeing as this is wikia, it's normal for people to come and go.

It's completely like any other wiki for users to be around for a certain point in time, then leave to focus on other interests and their own lives. In my opinion, your message mainly focuses on the aspect of how a lot of people who helped "fight" in these so called "wars" don't gain recognition after a while, and then eventually leave the wiki. I see it everywhere around. Just because a user leaves doesn't mean it's because they haven't gotten recognition or they feel like they're unimportant, it's because our interests change and we want to make time to do other things in life.

But it isn't about the "wars", and "drama", and "conflicts". It's about allowing this wiki to have a future to newer young people who will eventually have their own new ideas and their own creative things to write. This wiki has both good and bad memories, so I don't disagree when you say that some people stay here because they had unforgettable moments, but that isn't the case for everyone.

Being honest, one of the best memories I've had here is that I met my true best friend on this wiki, and he absolutely loved creating stories here. I like this wiki and I don't see any reason why I'd leave or want it to be deleted because it has some flaws. I like the wiki as well, it's just that I don't have fond memories of fighting in the conflicts as many other users who also have, and to be honest, people who are veterans here are like 80-90% of the staff and to think they can revamp the wiki seems implausible, how will the staff on this wiki be able to make it better for future generations if they are the ones who fought in the wars and came from different time periods of the wiki.

Those same users who fought in previous conflicts tried to revamp the wiki right after and it didn't work, we originally planned for it to move into Era 4 and after that all was promised and staff revamps ruined the wiki.

Another thing is that creepypasta is declining as an idea, not many people read creepypastas anymore and Minecraft as a game is not as popular as it was in 2012-2013, the only people who play it now are hardcore fans of the game.

I also don't like the argument Tiger made that the wiki is too old to shutdown, I think it's a good thing to shutdown for that reason because a lot of outdated features exist due to it being created in 2011 and they will probably be removed from the wiki.

To be honest, wikia will soon probably be forced to update their GUI and remove all the old features that messed up their code, even though I like these features, they will probably be removed even if we don't like their changes.

The wiki shutting down in 2020 would be better since it would allow us to avoid that outcome and potentially stop it from happening in the future, I just realistically don't find a scenario where we can keep this wiki alive without having most of the staff from previous periods end up leaving and create a sufficient plan for the wiki ahead.