Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-1073312-20140816013529/@comment-32788838-20140816020553

In regards to this post, I agree entirely. There definitely needs to be more intermingling between the older and newer users of the wiki, even after the unfortunate incident yesterday concerning the Gigaquadrantic Conflicts, which had the wiki up in arms with itself at the time of its conception and integration into fiction. There needs to be more exchange between ideas and methods of writing fiction and a fair means of deciding what goes on in community projects without making anyone feel like there's oppression or unwanted urgency going on.

This is why I am opposed to the idea of "owning" things like galaxies, when rather we should be "caretaking" them and moderating them rather than outright claiming to own them as it lends itself to rather elite and unnecessary connotations. I also feel that in-universe fiction is being used recently to manipulate people out-universe and using it as an excuse to attempt to "get" at other people although this is just me and my personal feelings towards the recent development of GC and I do not mean to cause any further argument with the statement. The wiki is beginning to fracture and I feel people are too busy hiding behind masks to get the problem solved as, like Tybusen said, people are either too harsh or people take things in an unnecessarily over the top manner.

With regard to Operation Marines' statement, I must respectfully disagree and say that the promotion of admins is largely unnecessary; administrators on this site are the same as users, they just have a few extra buttons and are largely involved in the *maintenance* of the wiki rather than in-universe events for the most part, it just so happens that the admins enjoy making fiction on the large scale. When an admin discusses fiction, they are not discussing it as an administrator, but as a fellow user. This is another reason as to why I feel we should not "own" galaxies and allow for more open exchange.