Board Thread:Internal management/@comment-9944069-20171123212406/@comment-26888167-20171124030258

Mental Skillness wrote: It generally just feels out of place for the PvZ Wiki, and seeing some weird Alternate Universe roleplays, and even Roleplays that don't relate to PvZ at all, I think based on how much it's grown as a subculture in the wiki, it needs to be put somewhere else because it's become so massive and out of place.

It was fine before because it was very small and simple, and the roleplays weren't that big.

But seeing how active it is, and the long spinning series that comes from it, I don't know if we should keep putting up with it, because both forum games and roleplays are pretty much being overused at this point, but fun and games is a much more harder case because that community has grown so much that I can't really object to its existence.

But roleplaying is still a pretty big community but it's smaller. I explained in my comment above about why both the Fun and Games branch and the Roleplaying branch generally hasn't been good news for page quality.

Some people are so out of touch with roleplays that they actually react in a surprised fashion that this is an information database, not a place to just roleplay, even calling me boring and "killing the wiki". And with such an unhealthy attachment from users, I want these kind of people to do what they do somewhere else, because based on how detached they are from the rest of community, they should be somewhere else. Well, I do admit that some of the users did overreact to this, and I'd like to apologize for the reactions some of them had. I'm sure they didn't mean to be rude to anyone. I believe they reacted in such a way because of how the roleplays have gotten some hate from other users before, users that call them cringey, stupid, inmature and stuff like that. It's well known how some users had expressed things like that to roleplayers before. And they may have seen some relation between that hate towards roleplays and this thread. I'm not saying that there is such a relation between both things, but I think that's why they got triggered in the first place.

I know this thread was made with the intention to improve the wiki, and again, I apologize if some of the roleplayers were rude to other users during this thread. But I want to make it clear that not all of us are like that. Jelo reacted calmly to this situation, and I'm trying to explain my point of view in the most civilized way possible, and I hope I haven't offended anyone with what I've said so far.

Now I understand better your point of view, but I still think that eliminating the roleplaying branch is a bit too much. I'm sure that at least some of the roleplayers are active in mainspace too. Not me, but I'm sure there are some. Sure, roleplaying might be something big here in the wiki, but exactly because of that, is it really worth it? With so many users that enjoy the branch, I don't think it would be right to have all the roleplayers forced to move somewhere else so they can roleplay. I don't really see the problem with the roleplay branch getting so big. I understand that the priority here is mainspace, but I honestly don't understand why a big roleplay branch is so problematic that removing it would improve the wiki.