Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-24841494-20140310144847/@comment-4832646-20140318164102

GraydonL wrote:

Princess Callie wrote: For Christ's sake. We may not have allowed OC in the first place but I would sooner have it now than have to delete every new page that comes up. A rant is a rant, and a user wouldn't spend their time going "Hey, Ok, I'll post it here, and hope it gets uploaded to CP! After all, I can wait the several possible weeks for someone to like my story, and then a dozen hundred more to vote it in!"

No. They're going to rant, then abandon the site. On top of that, if you're going to do this kind of thing, I think it would be appropriate to apply it to the entire network. And I'm not about to abandon the concept of OC at Spinpasta.

The simple fact is, it's not necessary, and users already don't understand half of the protocol we have here. They aren't about to do something like this by any stretch of the imagination.

Not to mention there wouldn't be a use for half the admins we have here. Which, in terms of activity, is around 6 or less. The fact is, doing this kind of thing, yes, would cause more work for the administrators in the transition, then having them sit around and do nothing. That is, if they don't leave during the transition because the wiki becomes  more  stressful and  less  fun, with the overall future being boring.

But, again, it's not just about the stress on the administrators. It's the stress on the users in general. So, still,. That is the thing with all major changes. It would be incredibly stressful, yes, but maybe we could organize a time ahead of time, where we temporaryly use chat to help set this up? As for deleting new pages, yes that will happen. A preventive measure would be talk page and editor measures warning users ahead of time before they post. This would not happen over night, but it could save everyone time and stress if this works as planned. If we proporly orginize this and set up a good foundation, as well as having regular users help (by ASKING and PLANNING this, instead of just shutting down chat and saying help) then the tranistion would be easy. One, either way, you're proposing something that turns this wiki into something effectively useless. And what you want an entire wiki spent on, Skelly has accomplished in a single board on the forums. There's no point. What would be done here by the thousands of users other than read when all the true editing on the 1-30 stories a week is done by the 4-20 people who know about this wiki you propose we use?

Let's keep our network into the three wikis it has and the old staff wiki that I'm going to clean up and restore in a bit.