User blog comment:Banksia/Complaints from forums/@comment-10558422-20141126214844/@comment-10558422-20141129230814

Even though I read the forums, I actually haven't made an account yet. I don't mind making one to make a feedback forum though. I can see community there being uncooperative in the sense that, despite the complaining some of them do, many don't actually contribute to the wiki themselves to rectify it. But maybe making a forum that directly involves there input might make them appreciate the wiki more as a joint project as it allows each side to express there thoughts directly. It's obvious that a lot of them are pretty salty with the wiki, but perhaps a lot of those beliefs are just because they don't understand the situation from our point of view. I mean, they complained about us adding the unrevealed color palettes but it wasn't a directly made decision as such - it was a progression that started out as a simple topic point. Delphox just mentioned that there where Robo-Fortune's palettes already in the game, and I asked in what code format it was shown as. An example of how the code demonstrated this was reconstructed and from there all the palettes ended up getting leaked. That doesn't necessarily justify that it was the right thing to do of course, but it was never one persons fault in particular; it was the wiki community as a whole for not remedying the situation when it could've been considered intrusive of developmental rights. So in that respect, while the wiki wasn't directly affected by the leaked info the forums (which also acts as a developmental hub of sorts) were. If both ideas could come together then maybe split ideals like that wouldn't have happened in the first place.

In theory making a feedback forum would give us a chance to explain any issues they have so people don't get angry in the future since they can also include their input to what rules should be enforced. Sure, some of them complained before, but none of them really stated why and to what point. It all depends on if both sides are willing too make an effort I guess. The worst thing that can happen is that everyone just complains and nothing changes, right? If nothing gets resolved then the wiki would still run the same as it always did. So I will probably start a feedback thread at some point just to see how it goes... Not sure if you are able to lock or remove threads later though or if you can request that sort of thing to be done. If that's available then any trolling could be forgotten about... hopefully.

I also just realized that my post was probably unnecessarily long. Why do I write so many words?! :p