User blog:Lily8763cp/My Thoughts on Recent Votings

Ok. Honestly, I can barely take all the drama going on right now.

I have to question why people want to get rid of all this "fun stuff".

First off, The Lawn. Ok, maybe I can get this, but not everyone wants to make an account for Discord. That's all I'm saying for here.

Next off is removing the Roleplaying Branch. I haven't said anything there because I haven't really been on, but here's my "two cents". Pretty much, even if you don't enjoy it, there are people that do. Please respect them. Yes, the PvZ RP wiki exists, but not everyone wants to go there, where there could be people they aren't used to. Plus, that has plants and such "dibbed", so if you want to be a plant/zombie, but somebody already owes it, you're out of luck for that plant.

Finally for the next vote I'll be talking about. Removing the Fun and Games branch. First starting with a thing that could be confusing to those not reading it fully I was a victim with support being to keep, oppose to remove. Point is, even not meaning to, it was sort of confusing. But like the Roleplaying Branch, there's a simple thing I want to say. There are people that like it, respect them.

Now for the arguments to remove at least the branches. I'll be honest. Some of these are not good and others are...interesting.

"You don't go to Wikipedia to find friends, you go there to learn facts. The same should apply to our wiki." - Except this is "Fandom"/Wikia, not Wikipedia. Wikipedia is purely facts (I believe) while Wikia is a mix of Wikipedia and a social site. If you'd rather not make any friends and just do the facts, make a PvZ wiki on Wikipedia, like this Mario wiki.

"Most of the active F&G users are rude but somehow they get away with it. They need to be taught a lesson." - Just because some are, doesn't mean you should punish everyone using it. That isn't fair. For example, if someone fails a test, would you like it if everyone in the class got an F, because one person (or a few) failed the test? And if people are "rude", then why not warn them or "ban" them?

"It's pretty pointless to keep it, honestly. All it is doing is clogging the activity with it's uselessness, and being one of the most hated branches of the forum of this wikia." - Here's a way to check the wiki activity without seeing the "uselessness". Point is. This isn't valid, since there is a way to see recent activity without getting clogged. This is my argument against any arguments saying it clogs up Wiki Activity in general. Also the "respect the people that like it" argument applies here too.
 * Step One - Click "See All Activity" when you're at the Recent Wiki Activity page (you don't see forum edits on normal pages.)
 * Step Two - Click namespace.
 * Step Three - Click select all to no longer select all.
 * Step Four - Click (Main) only.
 * Step Five - Click Go
 * Step Six (sort of) - Now you see only the most recent mainspace edits!

"Honestly, I'm getting sick of Theo, Shaan, Plamsa and other roleplayers. Just nuke the damn thing and they threaten and insult you for it, ban em'." - Another example of punishing everyone for something a few people are doing.

"One of the reasons why the wikia is controversial to people out there (yes, including ones who dont even have an account) is due to its RP branch, which usually turn them off and blah blah blah. Also, edit farming for disc mod is seriously easy to be done there." - While I don't know about other Discussion Mods so I can't "fight" against the last part, why would that be controversial? Shouldn't it be our information content talked about? And once again, if the branch is "broken", fix it. Removing it will fix nothing. Also if we remove Fun and Games, I'm sure that'll make our wiki even more controversial, but I'm not trying to start too much drama here.

"Doesn't benefit the wiki in any way. It just creates a cancerous environment. RP lovers just get triggered when someone says something negative about it." - This is a wikia. And it benefits the people doing it. It's fun to them.

"If the rollbacks can't do their job, then why keep it?" - I'm sure they meant Discussion Mods. But really? Punish the staff for not doing their job, not the forum.

I'm not trying to start drama, but I probably will. But I am starting to get embarrassed. Both sides have people acting rude and whiny, and it seems people are preying on the "fun" stuff. Wikia is a mix of Wikiapedia, the facts, and some social media, the fun. If we remove Fun and Games/Roleplay, we might as well remove Blogs, Comments (some wikis actually have done this already, or done their comments differently), and all the forums (except maybe voting thing), and I know not a lot of people will like that.

And as I said before. Even if you hate something, other people do like it. In fact, it could be really special to them. Please respect how they feel. We don't want other wikis to mock us for being "user unfriendly" or "cancerous".