Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-29326052-20161017091342/@comment-4902297-20161018080050

As an outsider to this whole fiasco, here's my two cents. I admittedly have little context, but nonetheless, here's what I have to say:

Discord itself is a chat application. Its sole purpose (in the scope of this wiki) is to provide a means of communication with other users. Nothing more, nothing less.

The main arguement I'm hearing against discord is that it has caused divides across the community, and, as such, should be destroyed. The problem is that this arguement, by nature, is fallacious. By that logic, anything that begets controversy should be removed, regardless of it's actual purpose or usefulness.

Imagine if a couple users had bad relations with an arbitrary staff member. These users decide enough is enough and leave the wiki for good. Should that staff member be demoted (or more) regardless of his or her contributions or importance just because some people are ticked off by them?

The fact that this is even a fight on this wiki irks me. In my point of view, Discord hasn't "made the community worse". Rather, it has merely unearthed tensions that already existed within the wiki. Discord was simply the catalyst to revealing them.

Again, take what I say with a grain of salt. I haven't been engaged in this community recently, and I have very little involvement with this scenario. But I do hope that you guys at least consider what I have to say before you make that judgement for yourself.