Board Thread:Wiki management/@comment-5143323-20180113035227/@comment-26988423-20180114083834

Drek&#039;TharSuperSword wrote: Seriously dude, I think some people are overly exaggerating this, and they think this might be more "harmful" and we might screw up the wiki more. This is basically fearmongering at its finest.

The thing is, there's a good chance that we can improve the wiki's quality by this. If you're saying this is gonna be harmful then you're not even trying.

We've tried REAL HARD in improving the vote systems and stuff, and it keeps failing. What's the point of trying to continue and use the votes when there's a lot of things wrong about it? Are we gonna keep the drama flowing endlessly just because of some stupid damn votes that aren't really that much useful? This is why the wiki has to "grow up" and be more mature in policies and stuff. One might think this thing is bad, but they're not looking at all the potentials. This is the result of "acting before thinking". Keep doing this and this wiki's never gonna improve at all.

Mind you, we've done a lot of effort for this, for we need to perform lots of critical thinking due to the sensitive nature of this change. I can GUARANTEE that should this be made in only a few days, it would've been catastrophic. But no, we've got a lot of plans for this since 6 months ago. We initally wanted to publish this last month but it was delayed again and again due to drama caused by the RP branch removal, and publishing this when the drama was still sparking up would've caused a much more intense backlash from the community, so we waited until it cools down. Again, we had to do some critical thinking, even for deciding when we should publish this. You're missing the point here. At least, you're missing my point.

If this fails, it will have very, very severe backlash. Unless you're absolutely sure this will work, I'd rather not chance it.

I also like how you're categorizing all votes by a few bad apples. Not every vote is completely pointless, and even if some of them are, it doesn't warrant a drastic change like that. So much for thinking before acting, eh?

And your point about potential isn't very stable. Yes, this has good potential, but its hindered by the potential to fail terribly as well. Take things like communism (not drawing any connections here, thats too much of a stretch), while they have good potential, they also have potential to go haywire. TL;DR While there is a good chance this will help, there is also an equally high chance it will end up hurting the wiki instead.

I get that drastic measures must be taken at this kind of time, but I'd rather not have the wiki suddenly die due to one choice.