User talk:Wormulon/The 2014 kick everyone up the backside blog/@comment-1633483-20140324215452

All of these are good points. Some of the pages that should really be central to the wiki such as the Fiction Guidelines page (and even the good and bad starter examples) are in dire need of a facelift. There are also several subpages of the SporeWiki Fiction Universe that are in need of a rewriting, such as the History page. The Taxonomy Project has also been a mess for at least two years now and we should really get on top of that.

As for the SporeWiki Twitter account, before I revived it, it would tweet whenever a new creature page was created. It makes sense that the taxonomy project's bugs would be behind why this suddenly stopped, though I'm simply guessing.

The problem with people not paying attention to whenever someone puts up their fiction on IRC is very frustrating. It has happened to me a couple of times when I'm looking for feedback. Obviously, we can't force people to comment but I'd recommend that whenever someone is looking for another user's opinion on something they post on IRC, they take a few minutes to read it. It would make people here feel much better about themselves.

The problem with "experienced users" being snappy or dismissive towards users is a long-running problem that should definitely be fixed. Especially considering that we were all new users once and I doubt you'd want to be treated the same way some new users are treated.

The main point of SporeWiki is to have fun, but sitting on IRC watching innuendo after innuendo for hours at a time is anything but fun. I'm not saying we should ban certain types of discussion or force people onto another channel, but this is still a major issue. Yes, I'm coming across as an old man complaining about "kids these days", but I think people should realise that not everyone is comfortable with our official channel being used in a particular way. Personally I think users should take the other people online into consideration before going overboard with innuendo.