Board Thread:Petitions/@comment-30779788-20171203163351/@comment-29771477-20171205020740

TheGoldenPatrik1 wrote: It doesn't have to be eloquent, I just want some reasons. :)

Okay fine, I'll try my best (I guess????) here.

1) It's just not the same in terms of visibility or general use. Even on Ursuul (THE MOST INTERACTIVE LEADER OF THE WIKI)'s wall, you can't really expect people to pay attention to stuff there and read it consistently, but you absolutely can with blogs. You just can't use walls as an announcement-y place like blogs; they're message walls full of spam and totally off-topic stuff and junk, and you can't moderate those at all without causing a public outcry. Trying to replace the idea of blogs with message walls seems absolutely preposterous to me.

2) As I've said many times here, it's not really fair......crap, uh....it's not fair that this is the way you're implementing these?? I just can't focus enough to say this right, but like.......it's mean kind of to have rules that are too strict in my opinion like this. They're bad. Even if you have actually alright rules (like one that wouldn't include adding pictures and links), this is kind of an area that should be treaded carefully. After the complete elimination of article comments, the slow demise of forums, the quick increase in sudden and unexpected change after the merge (I can give examples???), and more it's fair that people might feel a bit trapped lately, especially the younger ones? I know we're trying to be professional, this just crosses the line of being too strict imo.

3) A very weak point that I'm not even sure of myself but.....isn't it kind of good to have just ONE big, outward-facing place that isn't completely buried by heavy duty rules??? In layman's terms, here's a crazy idea: maybe there should be a little bit of quite visible slightly crappy stuff? Kind of going back to point 1, it's just....nice to....I dunno, have a place that isn't as strict as literally every other slightly visible part of the wiki, excluding message walls? Idk.....