Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-794213-20160709195121

Alright, listen up. As one of the admins of this wiki, I have noticed a big shift in the behavior of not only this wiki's members, but this wiki as a whole. And you know what? Excuse my language, but fucking tired of it. I'm not going to waste too much time, so let me just get right into it.

This wiki has become way too mean-spirited. Like, this place has legitimately become a hostile environment. You guys remember Hipper, the one with the hilariously bad battles and whatnot? And how he left in September? And suddenly everyone was like "Where's Hipper?". Well, I have the answer.

You guys fucking harassed him. You chased him away. You ran after him with pitchforks and torches. You burned his house down. You set up a big witch hunt after him. Of-fucking-course he's going to leave this place! What would you do if at every single corner someone bashed your work (even if it wasn't exactly top-notch), called you stupid, and proceeded to harass you every second you were on the wiki? You probably wouldn't want to stay too long, would you? Then why the fuck would Hipper?

It doesn't end there. This attitude has shifted to Maxevil as well. Maybe the outcomes of his battles are questionable or even wrong, and he has a history of including out-of-place and disturbing sexual content in his fights, but he's learned from that. You guys need to cool it with commenting things like that on his pages and acting like that's the only thing about him. I remember he was talking about you guys just being jerks to him, and that's because you are. Imagine - this is unlikely, but what if one day Maxevil decides to come to the chatroom, to see that people are making jokes about him all over the place? Would you like that, if you became the wiki's laughingstock? I mean I'm the guy who's written wrong battles involving the Puella Magi Madoka Magica girls and yet I face little harassment from that. Oh, is it because I'm the admin, and can ban you for it? I can ban you guys for this mean-spiritedness toward ANYONE, mind you.

Then there are the jokes that are just outright cruel. Racist jokes, jokes about killing yourself, etc. Imagine someone unsuspecting coming here and thinking it's a nice little place. Then suddenly, BAM, racist joke. BAM, "go drink bleach." It's not cute, it's hostile. What if someone of the race you're insulting comes on, and leaves because you guys are being racist? What if someone who takes great offense to the Holocaust comes on when you guys are making your little "Heil Hitler!" jokes?! What if someone who takes suicide very seriously (SUCH AS MYSELF, MIND YOU.) comes on when you make your "Hahaha drink bleach" "jokes"?!

This is the kind of shit that I'd expect from 4chan, not the fucking Death Battle Fanon Wiki. This place is a community, it's supposed to be a mostly-friendly place that anyone can edit. But no, this wiki's attitude makes it too hostile and too cruel for anyone new to even want to join. No, I'm not even referring to the debates, or to calling characters better than others. No, that's not it in the slightest. The biggest problem is how we make other people (some of them we don't even know) feel like absolute crap. We've done it before, and we sure as hell will do it again if we keep acting like this.

But we won't.

Mods, admins, you guys need to start being more proactive in this. Next time someone says something racist or mean-spirited toward someone, take fucking action. People here, just fucking stop. You're hurting this community and it's only funny to you guys. Cyberbullying is a real thing and people have legitimately killed themselves over it. What if people are getting bullied IRL and come here for solace? Well they won't find much solace in your guys' mean-spiritedness, will they? And if you say "Well they shouldn't come here, they should go seek help", just remember that not everyone in the world is brave enough to go seek help right away. The least, the absolute bare minimum least you can do is just STOP. Other wikis prohibit users to even curse, and yet here we are driving people to leave the wiki and joking about racism and suicide. Very serious topics. If you want to joke about that open up a Cards Against Humanity game or something like that, or just another chat. This is not the place.

Anyone who harasses someone, makes a racist joke in a public chat or on a public page, or makes a suicide joke to the same degree is getting a 3-week ban, regardless of how long they've been here, status on the wiki, or my personal opinion of them, or previous behavior. Second offense is a permaban, no questions asked.

I'm highlighting this so you fucks all see it. If you break these rules and tell me that you didn't see this post, I won't fucking care. Maybe you should check your notifications.

Para out. 