Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5035900-20160629073556/@comment-26516708-20160630025601

Nkstjoa wrote: Before you answer, it was a rhetorical question.

Of my many failures as admin, another of my many to add to my list is the fact that I never policed a simple rule:


 * "The following is not allowed:
 * Insulting and targeting an individual user, their battle idea, or works
 * Using a picture or video for the intent of insulting the person or their work"

It is my failures, not the other's, mine alone that have led to this not just being the norm, but being downright encouraged. I'd be better off putting a slash in those rules because I never did a damn thing about them. I deleted comments hoping the person would get the message instead of straight up telling them "stop or you're blocked" and I often stopped myself from giving said cease and desist out of fear of the fallout towards myself for blocking well-known users here.

...and unless we stop all of it, my failures will be engraved in stone and this behavior will become synonymous with this Wiki.

"Head down to the Death Battle Fanon Wiki. Here, debates are done through insulting the other person with pictures and videos meant to shame them. See someone writing stuff you don't like? Don't worry. Just hunt them down and spew hate towards them on every battle and page of theirs, then keep it up until they leave the Wiki forever. That'll show 'em. "

That is literally what this Wiki's motto will be unless we end it. And no amount of "but the battle/connection's terrible" or "they deserve it" will ever come even .01% close to justifying it. It's a childish reaction and even for those of you here who aren't adults, you can do better than this.

No more Forum Weapons meant to insult the other person.

No more shaming to the extremes of literally stalking their every page.

And now I'd like to end it on an important note.

I subscribe very much to the mindset of "If you have nothing nice to say, say nothing at all". Two knee-jerk reactions:

"CENSORSHIP!"

"So you're saying I can't criticize someone?"

That's false. Constructive criticism, literally telling them your issues and how to better themselves, is actually one of the nicest things you can say to someone. Because contrary to popular internet definitions, constructive criticism isn't telling them to roll over and die.

I can't police these comments anymore. I should have back when I was admin and all of the blame should be mine for never stepping up to do so in the first place and allowing all of this to grow into the large cancer sore on this Wiki that it's become today. All of this... is in your hands.

Not just the admins, but all of you reading this now. You have the power to take the first step in making a better Wiki than I ever did.

Please... be better than all of this rubbish. Yeah. As someone who did a dick move various times I feel shame for acting like such an asswipe. While I should have done better, I had some stupid pride that makes me want to punch my past self in the face. I want us to be better, I really do, but a lot of the time the bad users have the crabs-in-a-bucket mentality.

"If i can't be talked about nicely, no one else should."

this is one of the dumbest things you can do, and one of the worst.

As a guy who looks at himself with a pessimistic additude, I often think about what i've done wrong and shudder.

Can we all be significantly more mature? We've advanced a lot since the stone age, and back then we were more cooperative.

It's getting to be a massive problem nowadays.