Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-1290332-20131101200348/@comment-24486926-20131108223753

I hate to drop into this, but:

Just because something is popular, doesn't make it good. No, it isn't the fault of the writer of Sonic.exe, nor is it the fault of the admins of the wiki. Being an admin, especially on a wiki this big, is no easy task. It's not easy trying to cater to the community wants and needs and trying to create a quality atmosphere. Hate if you will, but sometimes admins have to be hard.

Sonic.exe is by no means a good, well-written pasta. How it really became that popular is beyond me. It was a very poor rehash of old cliches, with a very bad storyline on top of that. Where as I can see how keeping the original author from writing a sequel to his own story is unfair, I can see how allowing them to do so is unfair as well.

You must remember though: People come to Sonic.exe on this wiki simpy to make fun of it. On top of that, allowing the original author to post a sequel to his own work encourages spin-offs, so users who do base pastas off of that author's will cry out unfairness because whereas their works were deleted, the original author's will not. Forbidding the original author causes them to do so, but on a much smaller scale. Sonic.exe, in my personal opinion, and many others, was not good. Nonetheless, it hit astoundingly big. Thus why it was banned and became one of the reasons for banning spin-offs in the first place.

When one becomes an admin, they agree to enforce the Site Rules of that Wiki, as well as Wikia's Terms of Use. They also agree to cater to the community. Being an admin is by no means easy, and sometimes they have to be unfair. But one must consider: Life isn't fair. We have to move on with what we got and what we're allowed to do.