Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-29326052-20161017091342/@comment-5032910-20161020100640

Protanly wrote: You literally cannot kill the discord. But let me humour you and spell out why.

Let's say we all went ahead and made a rule that banned the discord. How would this affect the wiki? There could be numerous outcomes, so I'll go through most of them.

1) The rule is made that bans the wiki discord, but continues to run anyways since no one enforces the rule. Thus the rule we pass is useless since it doesn't actually mean anything. The Discord continues to run as per usual and everyone moves on with their daily lives.

2) The rule is made that bans the wiki discord, and as a result the rule is enforced. The people over on the Discord love the Discord very much so, so they decide to fight the system and keep the Wiki Discord anyways. Hysteria arises as the non Discord people realize what is being done, and go absolutely bonkers trying to stop this. As a result, heavy punishments are dealt out to all people who take part in said Discord channel, and we end up in a dystopian Wiki that was even worse off than we started by the proposal of this rule.

What you want to happen:

3) The rule is passed, and despite their wishes and the fact that they don't have to, the Discord is shut down. Everyone, despite the fact that nothing is stopping them from keeping the Discord running, decides to go back to chat as if they are brainwashed. Life magically goes back to normal, the stars align, we experience a supermoon solar eclipse on a leap year, ended only by the Leafs winning the Stanley cup. It's as if everything leading up to said moment has just been a dream.

Let me iterate this clearly. To shut down the Discord, you'd literally have to gain support from everyone who uses it, to the point where they see the lack of need for it and shut it down. Anything else you do will not result in "Fixing the problem", nor will it do any good. It's either going to change nothing, or make the problem worse, and there is ABSOLUTELY NOTHING you can do about it. Off-topic:

Wow, this should go on the World Records article for most Kudos on a post!