User blog:IAmFester96/Making compromises.

Ever since Fire and Beta had a war on this wiki, things have never been the same. Everybody will pounce on one another at any moment, ready to attack. This is true for everybody on this wiki, including myself. Nobody is willing to back down, we take a side and double down.

If we want our wiki to thrive in the future, we need to make compromises. All the Discord comprises of is just arguments and more arguments. Constant ad hominem. This is nothing but a detriment. Because people keep holding onto grudges from the past, we can never get things done. We’re like ticking time bombs, ready to explode at any moment.

We’ve reached the point where we only ban underaged users because we don’t like them, making random exceptions. What goes for some doesn’t go for others. That is not just one person’s fault.

We don’t have a clear direction or policy on the wiki, simply because everybody disagrees. Some want the wiki controlled to the 9th degree and others want literally no regulation at all. We need to be willing to make compromises. As a commumity, we need to find common ground and work together. If we don’t one day we’re going to start an argument that destroys the wiki. We don’t want FANDOM staff back.

Every little spat here adds up. Every disagreement, every comment adds to the bubbling pot of rage. We all know how it will end. It’s happened before. We remember these little spats. We hold grudges on those users to only start fighting again later. I’m repeating myself but this is so, so important. We don’t work together, we double down.

So I’m making a call, to every single person reading this. We need to work together. Regardless of your viewpoint, we need to stop being so obsessed with sticking to our guns and find the middle ground. It is there. Together we can work with each other, for each other. We don’t need to keep arguing, because that’s not what we’re like. Every single person here is a thoroughly decent person, and that’s a fact.

Thanks, Fester.