Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-5597060-20170116234511/@comment-4849011-20170118002259

It’s evaluation time!

First off, I get aggravated whenever someone claims that quality standards are stifling creativity. Are you kidding me? That’s a terrible excuse. Demanding something other than poorly-written, cliché-ridden messes doesn’t stifle creativity; it encourages it. Have you ever heard of the improv-comedy show Whose Line Is It Anyway? (either the UK version or one of the US versions)? The performers have rules they have to follow for each scene, and is their creativity stifled? No. The performers, using their brilliance and skill, create comedy gold. One time, when Drew Carey was the host, there was an episode in which they tried to do a sketch involving Hitler, but they were told they couldn’t (presumably by a producer and presumably because of ABC’s Standards & Practices). Did that ruin the episode? Nope! They turned the restriction itself into great comedy. If someone can’t contribute something creative to a website with standards, then the problem isn’t the website or its standards- it’s the writer.

Not only is the claim that having standards stifles creativity insulting, ridiculous, and untrue, but so is the idea that there’s nothing creative on here. Over the past 12-18 months Mmpratt, Banning, Vroom, and even Derpy have contributed cool stories (There was also a goof who posted the last story in her Houseguest series, and no one’s complained about it being uncreative yet). In fact, as long as Mmpratt has stories on here, anyone claiming there’s no creativity on here is a liar.

Now, let’s talk about changes. Years ago I had a Venus flytrap that, for whatever reason, had all but one of its heads die. In order to save the plant, I had to take drastic measures. I cut off all the dead heads, hoping that the one head could sustain the plant long enough for new heads to grow. It worked, and the plant thrived for several months after my pruning (dying only when the Ohio winter became too cold for it). If I hadn’t made changes, the plant would’ve died in a couple weeks from the necrosis gradually spreading from the heads to the roots. Years before that, I took a ceramics class. I made a couple small sculptures and painted them with a sea green glaze. When the first one was fired, it came out a drab, olive-like color. I asked the professor what went wrong and he told me that I hadn’t applied enough coats of glaze. Knowing this, I gave the second sculpture more coats of glaze, and it came out perfectly. If I hadn’t asked for expert advice and made some changes, the second sculpture would have been discolored. In both these situations, changes had to be made, and making those changes instead of being whiny & complacent improved things.

“What made this wiki great was that if someone had poor grammar, instead of deleting the articles, they edited it, perfected it.” There’s something called the Writer’s Workshop where people can post their drafts and have any errors pointed out. If people post an error-laden story and it gets deleted, then they should have used the WW. “The perfection by many people is how pages like Jeff the Killer and other creepypastas had back then compared to now; as I haven't heard of any creepypastas in quite a while.” I honestly don’t understand what you’re trying to say, though I will say that “Jeff the Killer” was far from perfection. Also, you really haven't heard of the Tobit series? “Anyways, this is my final farewell. I am going to let this Wikia bleed until there is no blood left to draw.” ‘Kay, bye! “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.” Huh? Wait, "doing yourselves"? Is... is that a sexual comment? “…but with such obstruct the use of power…” I think I saw that on a shirt on Engrish.com.