Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-36052213-20180802015552/@comment-36292647-20180805215417

MrDupin wrote: I have to point out that it is highly unlikely this (or Banning/Slimebeast) will have any effect on the wiki, apart from discussions on the matter. I am 100% sure that if you took a newly registered user and asked them what they think of (say) Helel's demotion thread, they wouldn't even know who he is. The fact of the matter is the active users on the wiki are but a small percentage of people drawn to this place. We get more than 1 million monthly views and the vast majority are from people who don't care at all about what goes on behind the scenes (quite probably they are not even aware there is a 'behind the scenes').

I don't think we have to fret about harming the wiki's reputation with the personal actions of admins. If I remember correctly, we've had admins do much, much worse stuff than both Helel and Banning (and I don't even think Banning has done anything wrong, I'm putting him in just for the sake of argument). I believe we had an admin use sock-puppets to nominate his stories for PotM, we had another admin create a bot to record personal information on the old chat and we had an admin (I think he was an admin...) who plagiarized most of his work, the greatest sin in the literary world. Has any of these affected the wiki? Have you even heard of them (I barely even know the details myself)? Do you think new users know about these things?

Most probably, no. So I believe we are safe. To be fair, an admin using socks, botting a chat, or faking his work aren't in the same notoriety as saying you know where an author lives and could kill them but the only thing stopping you is that you don't want to waste the time in jail.

That or supporting the latter...

But, you know,