Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31256456-20190830060531/@comment-28112409-20190901040358

I don't see the correlation between completely irrelevant shitposting and passion towards the game itself, much less a cause-and-effect relationship. We don't know if these people who revolve entirely around off-topic posts even have an ounce of care for the game or are just messing around for the sake of messing around. If activity on these boards was thrown off into somewhere else or capable of being filtered out, it might have not been too much of a problem but it just thrusts itself into the recent wiki activity regardless.

The RWA page is where most if not all users would naturally go to see what has recently garnered attention and need rather than manually checking every single board and message wall and page on your own. Being clogged with a whole hunk of meaningless threads from the off-topic boards and the message walls makes looking through for the important stuff a time sink, and an annoying one at that.

I see no reason as to why the wiki's activity is artifically sustained and put on life support via these sorts of threads, and convenience for visitors, editors, and regular participants in the more informative boards should always come top before the casuals meandering around spewing letters, memes and gibberish.

Discord servers are also functionally far more suited for the irrelevant stuff they do here, and they are also free and easy to make. There is literally no point in inconveniencing everyone else so that shitposters can shitpost especially when they do it far too much to ignore.

There's no real need for advertisement considering the role idea boards, for example, have gotten so much regulars, promotion and purpose that it could essentially sustain itself as far as activity goes.

A lot of places have off-topic sections but rarely is it ever a wiki. On the rare occasion it is a wiki, it'll be in the annoying new discussions spot where everyone is better off making a discord server rather than sitting through that interface. You can imagine why an off-topic board is not welcome in a wiki for editors who mainly rely on the RWA page for undoing vandalism ands checking for active pages/threads that matter.

There is absolutely nothing stuck-up in trying to maintain a site's, server's or place's purpose nor should the whining of members who's entire activity feed is rooted in irrelevancy matter. Whatever favors the wiki being informative and convenient in delivering said information forth should be placed first. Wikis are not multipurpose social websites and they never have, no one would seriously condemn anyone working in anything doing their bloody job.

So honestly, I would delete the off-topic and fun and games boards entirely. They have no place here.