Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5597060-20170116234511/@comment-24101790-20170117011444

I can't wait till you finish reading 1984 and then you can start calling everyone Big Brother and accusing everyone of doublespeak without really backing up the claims with anything. I'll just go through this and unpack it bit by bit.

"What made this wiki great was that if someone had poor grammar, instead of deleting the articles, they edited it, perfected it." We still do that if the story doesn't have a flawed/problematic plot. But assuming that everyone else has sufficient time to correct other people's stories (a number of which were too lazy to try and fix on their own) is a pretty ass backward idea. Why spend time fixing up a story when the own author can't be bothered with it? Why bother spending time if someone has just made a cookie-cutter story that is indistinguishable from the other stories of the same genre. Truth is, the wiki changed to accommodate the influx of users. We get 10-20 per day who will either try to post their own story, make edits/contributions to the site, generally want to comment on and read stories. Complaining about this fact just makes you seem entitled.

I always get a good chuckle when chat being closed down is brought up like it was a bad thing. It was shut down for repeated failures to follow guidelines, harassing newer users, and generally being cancerous. It had a second chance to try and correct itself with new mods and then one user was bullied into self-harming with others endorsing attacking other wikis (a problem the current Trollpasta wiki is dealing with), and a general failure to not follow basic rules/warnings.

"The categories issue has also been enforced too harshly. Instead of doing yourselves or hiring a group of people to organize the categories, you go to the most extreme measures to ensure that your creepypasta is added to the index." Uh, you mean the basic system of categorizing stories by genre/type to make it easier to access? I'm sure that this radical idea has never worked anywhere else, not even libraries, and should be abandoned immediately in favor of just leaving random stories and allowing no specialization or focus. That being said, it you're referring to the old index, we did away with that about four years ago so you might wanna update that.

Gotta say, for someone who's basically returning every six months to watch a wiki bleed to death, I'm left wondering why exactly the site seems to be continuing and the overall quality of the stories seem to be on the rise. Not to mention authors getting more recognition, collaborations in the process of being published as well as anthologies, and a general rise in stories being narrated and commented on. I guess that's a matter of opinion though as the wiki is clearly dying now that we've started removing stories with major plot flaws that have made it onto shitpasta readings. Clearly that's the issue.

Have a good one, see you in six months.