Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140331114355/@comment-25075055-20140407095755

Snapper2 wrote: the discussions that do interest them (wiki-wide changes, appeal for information) Again, if a thread is important to the wiki as a whole, it can be highlighted so that all users will be notified through the top-right message icon: that way, they can still keep abreast of important discussions to the wiki. Heck, this thread should really be highlighted so more people see it. :/ TheUltimate3 wrote: when draconian control is exactly what we would need to keep an open forum from descending into madness. No it isn't. Please stop suggesting that we must scare users into submission, that does not help anyone and creates an authoritarian wasteland because people will not post if they're just going to have moderators abuse their position. If you cannot consider responsibly using your powers in the forums, do not use them at all: it's very simple. Heavy-handed moderation will not work and will create acrimony towards those particular staff members: do you want that ? At the end of the day, as have been discussed before, the point of Narutopedia, it's Talk Pages, and it's forums, is the presentation of the information on this wikia. A discussion board, where we talk and theorize and all that jazz does nothing with this websites mission, to present data. Especially since we don't allow theories and speculation in articles. If people have their panties in a bunch over not being able to discuss and theorize about the latest chapter, then tough. Discussion on what happened is done in the article in questions Talk Page, or whatever character or technique page that pertains to that chapter/episode. Again Narutopedia has never, and should never, be a place where wild theories and the like should be discussed. Yes yes, we've heard this story over and over again, I am sick and tired of hearing it being repeated, because there are tons upon tons of flaws as to why this line of thinking is now inappropriate in this day and age. You need to move on and realise that the forums should not just be for wiki-only discussions: if you can't move on from that line of thinking, I feel sorry for you that you can't accept change.

Now then: so that we can actually make some progress in this thread, I would like to kindly ask that those people who are vehemently opposed to allowing discussions about the series in the forums to stop posting in this thread, your personal opinion has been injected enough times in this thread and we have given you many reasons as to why that thinking is now flawed. The only person here who has actually provided evidence to support his case is Dantman. Granted, his evidence was from many years ago, but it's still evidence.

@TU3/Omni/Cerez: All you have done is repeatedly stated a personal opinion of "I don't like discussions about the series here", that is not evidence and not a reason to oppose something that is clearly a benefit to this wiki: if you do not like the discussions that are posted in the forum, simply do not look at them, instead of trying to ruin the site for other people. This is not Wikipedia, however much you want it to be such.