Thread:IDontCareAboutHistory/@comment-499247-20190616235920/@comment-33872406-20190617224143

I see what you're trying to say, Sitb, but when there's stuff like this, a post being low quality or effortless isn't really subjective. There's also this, which is a bit better, but still pretty pointless.

Another issue are posts like this right here. The person is looking for a teammate, but no one really replies to that stuff. That's why we redirect to the Discord server. There's much higher chances of meeting someone there that would play with them.

If people who have access to discussions on mobile have a PC/tablet/laptop/whatever, couldn't they just use the forums in the first place?

Now, the examples I wanted to show are deleted, but a massive chunk of the posts there were stuff like "hey check out my PvZ YouTube channel and subscribe" and just contextless images of game characters. Compare that to stuff in the forum like this. A civil discussion that doesn't have much spammy/low effort/pointless replies and content. The moderators also enjoy helping around there and participate in threads.

I can't be 100% sure, but I checked a lot of the posters in Discussions, they have 0 edits on anything on the wiki itself. I don't see how the community there is participating in the wiki community. The Discussions page literally has a section that's dedicated to exploring articles on the wiki. Both that and the guidelines should be enough to motivate people to actually use the parts of the wiki its staff support. I don't understand. If you believe that they would do that, wouldn't at least some of them start already?

The staff really dislike some new features Wikia has added recently, a good example being the notification system. It pings literally everyone that participated on the wiki even for a small edit, and it notifies them even if they're on other wikis. It's just annoying. That's why we stopped using it and instead utilized a custom wiki script.

As for staff bringing decisions without community knowledge, this is a new system established in mid-2018. The staff had minimal power at that time and regular users abused the voting system by constantly voting about the same things every month and showing clear bias. Right now the staff bring all changes and decisions. There's also a feedback page that staff would check if there's an issue.

If not wanting Discussions as part of this wiki is such a big problem, we'll have to just stop deleting and embrace it. This doesn't mean, however, that I'm gonna moderate it. I don't believe the community there has anything to do with the wiki itself. It's different in every way. Almost nobody that uses discussions uses other parts of the wiki and vice versa.

So yeah, I'm gonna have a talk with the staff and we'll see how we're gonna do this. Definitely appreciate the feedback on our actions, though.