Board Thread:Feedback/@comment-28747875-20150727062714

I've been noticing people in the chatroom are a bit dismissive of it and after talking with a friend of mine who I will not mention, I cooled off and after thinking a lot and thinking twice about what I used to think I noticed something.

At first, when Spewgen was brand new and first discovered, action was taken almost immediately, users enthusiasticly trying to get this Wiki better, and it has worked indeed, look how much this place has gotten better.

But lately, it seems that it's now dismissed and typically seen as nitpicking by many users, including admins and lately it's been rather seen as "lol this guy is an idiot he always hates what we do". While Meldo comes off as critical, it's mainly because there's typically no point on saying "Oh, that's a good idea" or "you guys are doing good", simply because it doesn't help much, If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And besides he has complimented some of this wiki's decisions.

A point I want to address is the Iwata memorial thing, look guys I get what you're trying to do here, making a tribute to a great passionate person towards his work, that's fair, but when it's done in the way it was done you can't just help but to feel in the least a bit bad, just because it's a gift or a tribute doesn't mean it's safe of criticism, you put it on the internet after all.

It might feel like this Wiki has foreign eyes everywhere sometimes watching our every move (or perhaps not really that much, but you get the idea) and I can feel that for you guys it can be frustrating that there's the chance every move you do to try to help or contribute gets frowned upon (I have been through this) but if we stop listening to the complaints and rather focusing on "lol the guy's an idiot" or "we need to expose him" we're going to look like people who can't take criticism AND it might lead to more shunning, which I don't think people want anymore.

I know that, perhaps there's a problem that's never going to be fixed, the userbase of the wiki. Which is probably going to be with us for quite sometime, so we'll have to deal with a couple of people having immature bursts here and there (and as a result appearing in a new post from the blog), but that's why admins are here and if someone's giving a vibe a trouble maker, do not hesistate to call them out and stop them right in their tracks. For the mods and admins, I could suggest attempting to work cohesively more, so in case things go awry they can sort out things more efficiently.

Going back to the frustration, I can relate to feeling frustrated, but if we really want to keep a clean image of ourselves and our public relationships, tell them off site or to someone you trust and preferibly not in a public place where people can always see.

I was going to address this tomorrow, but I prefer it being right now so action can be taken right from the start, kudos to everyone and please let me know what you think!

 