Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-30588401-20161031102701/@comment-24024415-20161101011247

Camwood777 wrote:

Camwood777 wrote: I mean, it's one thing for this drama involving Discord to exist, but this half-official/half-unofficial really makes no sense. I'd be willing to oppose making it unofficial because:


 * A. at least it makes it an official chat and that confusion is cleared up
 * B. we don't have to go through all votes that were impacted by discord and re-tally votes that don't involve decisions impacted by discord
 * C. i can vote to remove it.

I mean, it's even more work to make it unofficial compared to work to make it official. Because making it unofficial means going through all those dozens of voting threads for mainspace, internal management, user reports, and promotions, and re-tallying them ALL to make sure one doesn't succeed/fail due to discord, which would be "unofficial". And don't get me started on the madness it'd put on the anti-harassment rules... I feel like mentioning this again. Making it unofficial is so much more work than making it official, and just voting to close and remove it, and removing it from the wiki like that.

Should Discord's impact on the wiki cease? Absolutely. But is blatantly detaching it, having to go through all that trouble to re-tally votes, and making it SUPER easy to exploit the differing rules and allow for stuff like being a jerk on Discord not having an impact on your Wiki status really the best way to go about it? No... Not really, no.

It's much better to make it official, and then vote to remove it like that. We can all agree Discord has caused drama, even the people who like Discord. But if we're going to choose a way to minimize Discord drama, this is horrifically inefficient. As Camwood said, ignoring the problem and the drama it creates is not a good thing.

The passing of this vote seems rather hazardous, since it gives carte blanche from users that harrass other users on Discord. Yes, even if it is unofficial, there can still be legitimate cases of harrassment that could occur, regardless of officiality. Context is certainly a factor on the validity of such cases, but "Discord Drama" could easily be as simple as a case of a person trying to convict another for showing malicious behaviour to themselves or other users, but being excused or even penalized because "Discord is unofficial, it does not matter if that user showed terrible tendencies that could be their true intents".

Also, nice strawman FFF, here's mine:

"What happens in Discord stays in Discord, amirite? hehehe... HEY! Don't post that case of me doing something that conflicts with the rules of the wiki! That is completely unbased because it took place in the unofficial place, so it does not matter!"