User talk:Etzan/Resolving the crisis/@comment-4242472-20140825130407/@comment-4960835-20140825141604

Well, the Mirus Part s going well so fluidly exactely because we communicate. Ever since I've put a message on ZF's wall in wich I proposed him to join, we've been using that message to spew our ideas for the Mirusian part. The reason we've been doing this ever since our first collaboration (with was the Nebulorian War), that always try to understand each other's reasonings, and that we don't have any hierarchy of some sort are possibly the only reasons why we never got into any (too serious) disagreements.

Also we've constantly upgraded and changed the plot even sice we've started, continuousely adding new ideas as the war progressed to keep it from stagnating instead of writing out the storyline in advance and sticking to it the whole time.

Were we really the only ones?

All in all, communicating does help to solve problems, but only if you actually try to listen to what the others have to say. You can try to communicate, but as long as you don't listen to each other, you'll get nowere. I only sparcely get on IRC nowadays, but have bore witness to some minor agruments none the less. The problem here isn't that both parties don't try to communicate, but that they aren't listening to each other's arguments and accept the simple fact that both could be (at least partially) right.

Isolating oneself obviousely will seperate the universe even further, and what's the point in that. The veiwpoints of anyone differs from that of another, indeed, that's only natural. But that doesn't mean you have to isolate yourself (or yourselves) from the rest because it it. Such will only lead to stagnation.

During the initiation page era, as I'd like to call it, the established users seemed to stand as one block against all newcomers that tried to initiate into the whole Fiction Universe, spewing critique and generally discouraging new users to become part of their group. I'm almost thankfull about Zilla's little outburst, we really needed to get rid of that page, and luckily did. The result was that we became far more tolerant and enjoyed an increase of new users, and new fiction. However this eventually caused whole groups of users to cluster together, this time not against newcomers, but against other groups with different viewpoints. There are some who are not part of any of these, or groups that still try to encourage peace between the rest, but these seem to be largely ignored. We needed Zilla's outburst to get rid of the initiation page, and I wonder what we'll need now?

Tell me, how many blogs or posts have been made resolving around this issue? Three, at least? That means either that we don't want to try and change the whole situation, or that we try but get into a stalemate again because we keep on too tight to our own viewpoints too much.