User blog:Protanly/Protanly's views on the current state of the wiki

Please keep in mind that these are all my opinions. Please take them as subjuctive and not me trying to point fingers or try to claim what I say as objective facts. Please be respectful if wishing to respond to what I have to say, as I have the courtesy to hear you out and listen to you in a respectful manner. First blog post in a while. Just thought I'd share my views on the current state of the wiki. Nothing more and nothing less.

1) We want to give too much power and freedom to the individual, that we are forgetting about keeping order and consistency. Honestly, never before have I seen a community devolve so much in such a short amount of time. We used to have a community that made sense. We'd talk respectfully, respect each other's opinions. We'd share predictions on the future of the franchise. We'd laugh with each other. What this wiki has become over the course of 2016 has honestly started to disgust me. We've become ruthless, blood thirsty pigs. We've done nothing to stop it because we want to give so much power to the individual. We'd happily report each other for the slightest of mistakes, and be cutthroat about it while we try to go about demanding some warped version of justice. Honestly? Are you all kidding me? Are we not rational human beings who are able to sort out our problems without having to resort to blocks, bans, demotions, kicks, etc. at the first sight of seeing someone do something we don't like. Part of what has lead me to this has come from the recent thread that wanted to demote me. What surprised me however, was not the fact that someone had tried to demote me. What shocked me is that what was simply proposed as an inactivity demotion accumulated votes saying things such as "Rude.", "Mean", and all these other sorts of things, all of which I have not heard a single thing about prior. Anyone could have voiced their opinions to me, how they felt about me. Instead we as a wiki choose to remain silent while we sit here in disgust and anger. We as a wiki need to start being rational about things. All of these senseless votes need to stop. You don't need to ask us if every single change you make to this place is ok. If you want to add something to an article, you feel free to do so. If you have an issue with someone, try to civilly sort it out before we get to the extremes. We need to stop putting so much into votes and power and freedom of such a system, and start thinking for ourselves.

2) We are slowly devolving into a state of anarchy. We used to be consistent. We used to have rules. You swore in chat and you got booted. You spammed and you got booted. You vandalized and you got banned. We kept a state of order and for the most part things were alright. People didn't break rules because they knew what happened when they broke them. The wiki was peaceful, and life was good. It was then that we decided to create votes that gave us more and more power to do pretty much anything we wanted. It started with chat, and has begun to spread elsewhere. We can attempt to silence others, we can pretty much do and say anything we want. We are becoming a wiki of anarchy without any order, and it's tearing us apart. We gotta stop standing apart, because we won't live much longer if we stay like this. Heck, we are all members of the PvZ wiki, so maybe it's about time we put the past behind us and started being a wiki who stood as one again.

3) Mainspace edit numbers are becoming even more of a circlejerk. Don't make edits often due to not finding much worth your clicks and time? BAD. Don't want to? BAD. Is your number lower than mine? I'm better than you. Forget about what the person actually contributes to this wiki. The only thing that matters is mainspace. Despite the fact that the wiki is divided into both the purpose and the community, we put so much focus on the purpose that we forget about the community. The purpose is to provide a knowledge database for others to access. The community is to provide the information and be able to create a group of people who care about the subject and discuss such. Without one, the other does not exist. We need to stop focussing so much on the purpose and realize that the purpose means nothing without the community.

4) The staff team hardly means anything, and is basically an elitists team of members on the wiki. When was the last time you saw most of us do anything worthwhile. There's such a high number of us that we hardly got anything to do. Instead such as in point 3, we want to value our staff based on a number, and not on what they actually do for us. Want to run chat? 250 edits.. and you better make sure you keep making edits or else you are inactive. Want to run for admin and got 1000 edits? Too bad. 1000 is the minimum and you are rushing it because you are power hungry.

That's all my thoughts for now. Feel free to read this. Or not. I could care less.

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