User blog:Wonderweez/Drama

Greetings and salutations!

It has been quite a while since I have last created such blogs in regards to, well, anything really. To update you all on life, I am doing quite well. But, as you may have all read by now in the title, that is not the topic of discussion in today's blog. Rather, we're going to talk about the almost exclusive word to fanon that has been gripping us for quite a while now. I am talking, of course, about:

Drama.

Keen eyed amongst you may argue that by making a blog post about drama, I only risk inciting more of it. In that regard, I only ask that you stay awhile, and listen.

The recent course of this wiki, for the most part, has been a relatively smooth road; despite a lack of new users joining we still have the most activity on the wiki network, and one can argue that despite a slow down on article creation, our creativity burns brighter still than any star. However, as with all roads, there are bumps-- parts where the going is rockier than should be. I like to imagine the wiki as a car, and somehow by some miracle of modern engineering, we all steer it. By following the curvature of the road as a team, we all steer in the correct way as to avoid collision, riding off the road, etc. With the recent events however, pertaining to users that shall not be named, I feel that they are steering in the opposite direction than intended. Now, by having a majority in those steering in the correct way, this situation is mostly minute in detail, but some get tired of this steering "battle," and eventually simply bail out.

Now in a normal car, the driver bailing out is usually a bad thing and would entail almost certain injuries for the driver if they are going above 20 miles per hour. But in our "car," it simply means that there is less "correct steering" to follow the curvature of the road, which would mean that a minute flaw turns into a slightly bigger one. Eventually, we would lose control and simply crash.

This is not a philosophic argument stating that "these drivers are bad and they should be punished," but it is saying that without cooperation on a wiki-wide level between everyone, we cannot steer successfully. There should be no battles between two people who believe they are right but instead cooperation on behalf of both ideologies. That being said, having big egos and/or being stubborn in regards to any form of talking is not the solution here either. Talking bad about each other behind our backs isn't the solution either; all it creates is fighting between others over an argument of "he-said-she-said" statements that, taken out of context, can mean completely different things.

That being said, I don't believe we are not all innocent (or guilty for that matter) of doing this, including me and other admins, yet conversely, as well as some other users. As soon as we admit that we have this problem between us, the sooner we can resolve our conflicts by simply touching bases with each other. There is a difference between teasing people as friends and insulting them because you harbor a negative opinion of them. With that in mind, there is a point where teasing does perhaps get out of hand, and it is up to those involved to know where a limit is reached in an effort to avoid conflict entirely.

In regards to everyone on the wiki, as an administrator, I feel I have failed in my attempt(s) to keep peace on the wiki, and allowed it to spiral out of control into this mess, even if minute. On the surface, perhaps, there is none, but I can feel the tension that is so tightly wound I can play it like a guitar (or violin for those classical music lovers). As an admin, we are meant to be role models for a user to follow: unbiased, unabashed, and unwavering in our fight to keep stability (at least, thats the intention for us to be-- we often fail at that, sadly). That being said, we have to know when to fight our battles or go with the flow. Ultimately, we are not always right, and this blog post may be entirely wrong in its intended message. There are certainly times where the user has the right idea compared to us.

With that in mind, however, the users are not always right either. It is impossible to truly call anything right because our perspectives are ever changing in this vast and unceasing vortex of ideas we call our world. Our own views are intertwined with others, sure, but we always carry different end results. A user exists to have fun and partake in the wiki as a contributer to an equally vast world online, not to wage wars against someone from across the world, country, or even state over what we perceive as right or wrong.

To those that have quit over the drama on the wiki, I plea for you to reconsider this, yet know that I likely cannot sway your decision. Leaving will unfortunately not solve anything besides allow you not to deal with all of this directly, and even then, you should not feel obligated to be impacted by this. Like other users here, you have the option to remain neutral in this and ignore the discussions and go about your merry way on the wiki. Drama has an unfortunate tendency to seem necessary, and even if it is, the stress associated with it is optional, especially if it won't impact you in the long run.

I conclude this blog with a plea asking simply to reminisce on a time not too long ago where we were all friends, allied in the same idea that we were going to have fun as friends, even if our interpretations on it are different. It is never too late to simply remember those times and think about what happened back then, but as we get older, it will get inevitably harder to act upon them. Even though we all say that this will all stop as time goes on, one thing is certain, actions speak louder than words do. Thanks for reading. -  Wonderweez  ( Talk · Contribs ) 23:08, 4 August 2017 (UTC)