Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140331114355/@comment-6794268-20140406202337

@ TU3 - Narutopedia is a resource, there is nothing to argue there. You can take a pompous route and talk about "preconceived notions" and "feel sorry" for people. That's rather arrogant and got Cerez and me into trouble for taking such stances. Either way, no, it's rather the opposite, for both you and Speysider, and it stems from twisting words or not understanding a multitude of things.

When I stated Narutopedia is a resource, it is because it is a comprehensive tool where information can be stored and found. That is all the site itself is. However, there is a community here -- those that store the information and make sure the information is accurate. But that does not make Narutipedia a community, nor does having a forum mean anything other than providing another tool for the website's resource (information). Now, yes, as stated, a forum isn't just used for my pure idealistic notion of having questions answered, theories provided, discussions held, and all that jazz translating back to the articles themselves. Not every discussion would. But thank god we have the ability to moderate a forum and remove what we deem frivolous; I.E. - Who do you think is the strongest?

Now sure, when such things popup, we can delete them, and that takes work. I cannot even speak as to who can do it or how they do it. Maybe it's just SYSOP. Maybe lower forms of "moderators" can do it. I don't know. I won't be so ignorant as to speak about things I know not of. However, if the only way to delete forum topics like that is to have some sort of power as an editor here, then so be it. A forum would lead to a potential increase in visitors, and yes -- it would lead to more editors naturally. Now for the number of editors, I, again won't speak. But having an influx of people without a doubt translates to more people being editors because they want to get in on the fun. Tangents aside... Back to moderators. Since there would be an influx of new people and potential silly topics, if a certain level of mod is required, then we can have slightly more people fill that need by promoting them. I know I wouldn't mind spend hours checking the forums to do that. I have a relatively easy life, work isn't hard, and I have tons of time where I'm doing nothing and bored. And no, I'm not everyone. But I hope my point still stands that even in the event these things pop up, we can still take care of any problems, and have it not be a burden to other editors who already spend time doing other things elsewhere on these resource of information.