Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31256456-20190830060531/@comment-25615841-20190901181147

Wiki Purpose

Vertroyer wrote:

A wiki is there to provide information about a topic or title, period. That's all there is to it, anything else is irrelevant and pointless to the website. Wiki staff are there to make sure said wiki is running its purpose properly and regularly. There is nothing difficult or hard about doing that.

Forum activity is absolute bottom priority in running a wiki, what matters the most is the visits said wiki gets indicating readers or users who come here for information, a statistic only found in the admin dashboard. ZedKiller13 wrote: The wiki information will ALWAYS BE THERE if it’s supposed to be run like a wiki. If people have complaints about the “community” side and of shitposters, I don’t care. I don’t focus on that portion.

If they have complaints about the way role ideas are being tested, or how the good aspect of the community here is working, then I do care. I don’t care about shitposts. Shitposts are shitposts. They are shit and mean shit. They serve no purpose here but are prelevant everywhere.

I find it to be an important enough point that this isn't just a wiki - the site has been renamed "Fandom", because that's what its for. It's primary purpose is to display information clearly for people to see, and there's no question as to whether it's done its job. However, at the same time, even if Discord is a better place for it, this wiki is also a place for its community members. The Forum and Discussions exist for this very reason. If anything, shitposting on this wiki can still bring the community members together. If you have dislike for this type of activity, as Zed said, you can ignore it.

Browsing

Vertroyer wrote: "Don't like it so leave it" is not an answer. It's very difficult to ignore the dumbass screeching in class and "stay away from it", and avoiding the inconvenience of all these threads clogging the RWA page where everyone goes to check for important and relevant updates acts likewise. It's still a time sink, saying "stay away from it" didn't solve anything for anyone.

There are other ways to browse this wiki. You can use the boards individually. You don't have to use RWA. Use the Forum. I've done so for about 2 years before beginning to usa RWA specifically to find message wall threads since they're not displayed there.

Anons unite

Anons unite wrote:

he can actually be honest and provide criticism and doesn't have much of a filter.

honesty =/= lack of filter.

Anons unite wrote:

Then, if all that crap is removed, TOTM will be what it was ORIGINALLY INTENDED to be, who is the best at the important wiki stuff, NOT a popularity contest like it is now. In fact, vert's tone towards it suggests he may even be fine with scrapping it altogether. This is what I was preaching since the beginning, but when i said it the first time round, a shitstorm ensued partially my fault) I must have missed where any of your previous rant ties into ToTM? How would removing shitposting from this wiki make an impact on the competition? More importantly, ToTM is a popularity contest now? Is this a post from 2018? A large rework to the entirety of the contest was discussed and put into place for this exact reason. Poke touched on it in his original post.

Boards

OnlyShots wrote:

What I am all for is merging Fun and Games along with Off-topic, at this point they’re about synonymous with each other and there’s no difference between them if we take a look at the current thread and posts in them. This is fair. Though there is a large amount of posts on both boards, it would be a reasonable middleground to cut down on the amount of boards like this.

Anons unite wrote:

It's not going to get boring because theres alot of stuff i just mentioned there. Still, there could be the occasional game or two, but the hardcore, edit racking, shitposting stuff needs to go. Right. And how do you suggest we filter "hardcore" shitposts and non-"hardcore" shitposts? Stuff like "post the letter A 23 times in a row" are already not allowed.