User talk:Etzan/Resolving the crisis/@comment-32788838-20140825094437

I think at this point the wiki is too damaged to commit to anything like this. We're humans, not machines, and humans are known for being predictable and acting against whatever good ideas other humans have set up. While this may all seem fine and rosie on paper, it probably won't get implemented steadily. You spoke to everyone from the "Xonexi group" - the bunch of users that you are most familiar with - without attempting to communicate with the other user groups/factions/whatever and that's why this all seems like a good idea, because it caters to you and your friends.

I think I speak on the behalf of several people in saying that with me disagreeing with the premise of the Gigaquadrantic Conflicts and the fact that management of it recently has made it appear to be shoved down other people's throats, I would gladly rather ignore any further attempt to do fiction with the "Xonexi group" than cater to them. That may sound unreasonable, but the incident was very stressful and jarring for everyone that had gotten upset and if we can only expect more of that to happen then I don't see the benefit of why we should even attempt combining group styles. This is why I disagreed to GC in the first place; I personally find stories not based around active characters actually doing things, which seems to make up a lot of GC's current story in my eyes, very uninteresting and I don't want to put myself through that, as would a few people I know.

Honestly I think the better solution is if you attempt communication with people outside of your little group of friends rather than discuss amongst yourselves what you think would be beneficial for the wiki. And when I say this, it's likely that a damn lot of people won't want to communicate with you on ideas after the incident because what happened was polarizing and also set up a very bad example of what to expect from doing fiction with you and your "group". I'm not going to cater to it because I don't think this idea will ever work in practice and it won't be the project that will unify the wiki, only drag a couple of people out who are willing to do it and then it will probably go stale and inactive because a lot of users are also becoming more and more distant from the wiki, that isn't particularly anybody's fault directly on the wiki though.

So, yeah. Those are my thoughts. GC was an attempt to drag as many people as possible from across the wiki into a huge clusterfuck and look what happened. That's probably going to happen again if we implement this idea of yours because humans - both you and I - are fickle and dumb like that, and somehow will always find a way to make projects like this fall on their heads even if the project was made with good intentions in mind.