Board Thread:Social/@comment-4041126-20160127235158

If you did not want to click on this, maybe you're one of the reasons this was made.

Anyway, hey guys! It's that awkward admin Heather here again with some more lectures to give you guys! :D Just kidding!

Okay, time to get serious now. As you know, we've been having some new users lately. Some come and go, while others stay. That's awesome! That means that people were interested in our wiki. That's the point of a wiki: to be in a community with people who love the same things you do.

But does anyone ever wonder why some users leave? I've been told before that the people on our wiki are too clique-ey or show favoritism. One thing that I have also noticed that ties in with that is that we have not been as kind as we all used to be.

When a new user (or even regular user) pitches something, I feel as if we all turn into really big critics. Don't get me wrong, constructive criticism is awesome, but sometimes we get too harsh. ''Especially on new users who are still trying to get into the wiki. ''Look back on all of our old threads. Did we all start off our first pitch flawlessly? How was the feedback? Encouraging and making you want to stay with the wiki? Or calling your ideas unoriginal and boring?

I'm not saying we should be super soft. What I'm saying is that we should try to hold back on our sass a bit. Imagine how humiliating it must be to be new to a wiki and trying to fit in and join just to have most of the community immediately against you because they didn't like your idea. We need to fix that. Sometimes, the way we phrase things is not respectful at all.

Notice that I'm saying 'we'. I mostly was thinking this myself lately, and I don't know if you feel the same way. You might not. If you don't think this applies to you, then maybe it doesn't and this isn't for you. If you think it does, then maybe we can both try to work on this a little more.

Whether it helps you or not, thanks for reading this super super long post (I didn't think it would get this long Dx) and I'm sorry if this was a waste of your time. Thank you. :) 