Blog:TigerBlazer's View On the Shutdown of the Website Wikis

After this little incident that occured, many mixed feelings have come about. Many people are happy that they are gone, but many others are very mad that they are gone. The biggest problem with this was that there was no community consensus. I think now that this has happened, we should have a deciding vote on their fate. So, I will list the pros and cons of having them open and having them gone.

Pros

 * A lot less drama and toxicity will occur, as these wikis were where those were the most common.


 * These wiki had caused most of our reputation downfall, such as controversal pages (like Rule 34 and FANDOM), toxic comments (I had to call out a user for wishing death upon someone), and had the most hypocrisy (Having Rule 34 as a page when DeviantArt is banned for reasons that depend on the fandom, which is what Rule 34 is based on). These were easily the worst of our wikis and having them closed will make us look better.


 * Many of the pages were biased and had very short details. If we removed these, we wouldn't have many left.


 * Many users, even Grust, hated these wikis and beleive keeping them closed is a step in the right direction.

Cons

 * The hard work that me and a few other admins did to fix those wikis will end up wasted.


 * The rebranding will be more difficult.


 * We might lose a few users and might have more drama.

Pros

 * The rebrand will be finished quicker.


 * We can continue the work to fix them.

Cons

 * We will still have the most toxic wikis and we will need a lot more work to fix them.


 * Much like closing them, we will have a much divisive user base.

Now that this is discussed, lets have a vote: Should we keep them closed or reopen them?

What will be the fate of these wikis? Keep them closed. They had the most problems out of all the wikis and keeping them closed is a step in the right direction. Re-open them. We don't want this to become the charcter wiki closing incident 2.0