Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24841494-20140413162532/@comment-4832646-20140422173227

Noothgrush wrote: 41488p wrote: ALSOOOOOO

Who are we as a wiki? We claim we welcome outsiders yet we delete supposedly "bad" pastas by people who've never written a pasta before, while presenting them with a guide that if they read would apparently magically transform them into a Stephen King. I propose that we talk about our long-term goals for this wiki, and how we want to achieve them, rather than spending time on little issues like these. And yes, I count these as "little issues"- this isn't going to make or break the wiki, y'know. I agreed with your original post, but this is just silly.

The reason we have such stringent quality standards is to keep this place as A) a hospitable area to be and B) to make this an enjoyable place to be. Neither of these can be if we simply allow every single shit post to go through. We have over 10k stories right now, that's mostly stuff that got approved. Think about how awful this place would be to navigate is every shit story was allowed through simply because somebody tried.

Our style guide and by proxy our advice blogs aren't meant to "magically transform you into a Stephen King" that's so asinine. First of all, the style guide is a fantastic resource, it'll help you greatly if you read it and actually take in some of the information. Our style guide, while not as in depth, is actually based on and fairly similar to Strunk and White's Elements of Style. You'll be asked to buy this if you take any basic college level English class.

We do welcome outsiders. Look at me. Look at TBC. Look at Mystreve. The thing all of us have in common is that we all started as "outsiders" to the wiki. Now we're all three of us incredibly active members. Mystreve is now an Admin and TBC is now a chat mod. I personally don't have much interest in positions like this, but they're a pretty clear example that people are welcome and given the exact same chances offered to anybody else.

Typically, they're not "supposedly bad", they are bad. You'd know this if you seriously took a long hard look at the "recent activity" tab.

Look at any general user. They all started as outsiders. I started as an outsider. The first time I was here I was afraid to enter chat, for crying out loud. Now, I am an administrator.

The Style Guide is based off an actual written resource, the advice blogs are things written by people who generally know what they're doing and also have the evidence to back it up.

Speaking on the Quality Standards, I need to work on the final draft as well.