Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1073312-20140816013529/@comment-6752454-20140817010323

I've been content to stay quiet for most of this, too busy and frustrated to reply.

I've had more than my share of faction. I've had a tight group that was torn apart after one member proposed splitting off to form a sub-faction, ending in the owner disbanding the whole group. I had another where a pair of factions led by an in-game couple had a fight and both factions destroyed the other. And I've had a sysadmin in my NS region become a dictator and delete the entire forum after the community complained. Even though that fortunately didn't destroy the community I've largely lost interest as it's often collapsed into a power struggle between two political factions.

In all three cases factionalization tore the community apart and in the first two led to the group's destruction. Factional conflicts have never ended well for me. I don't buy the claim that they help in any way.

Neither side is prefect here. We could have handled recent situation with our UDB posts better, but as already explained many times our "opposition" is hardly faultless. Most of you would prefer a return to the status quo. But you must consider the cause of this mess. The fact is that several of us have gained a dissatisfaction with the status quo and the way things are run for some time now. I've seen attempts to return to the status quo before, all ending with grudges and the original argument returning with a vengeance. Both sides will have to make concessions, but to do that the other side must also admit there is a problem in the first place.

Furthermore, I find accusations of not integrating rather ironic. Many of you have your primary fictions in Borealis, a galaxy that you have closed off to the rest of the community. (And since I suspect one of you will bring up Katar I will remind you we did not close it off, we did not let them in due to a severe technological gap that would interfere with the purpose of Katar.)