User:Brant/Fanon Address, October 23, 2017

During my brief hiatus on this wiki, and upon my return, I had hoped to stay out of wiki politics, as it has too much drama for my own good. However, unfortunately, I find it impossible to do so, as there are always changes and new drama. While I don't intend to rejoin wiki politics any time soon, I just wanted to say a few things about the current status of the wiki and my personal opinion on it.

Free Speech?
This has, and continues to bother me. Since almost my arrival, I've nearly always had something stand in my way when writing something. While I understand that there are rules to follow in order to keep the wiki stable, there have been times that the rules have been hypocritical. As such, I wish to point out the discrepancies and other things in the rules and general admin rules that seem to bother me.

Since I nearly got here, my first limit was involving the population of a country I had made. Despite there being no rule or valid reason against it, I was not allowed to set my country's population to a certain amount. Thus, the fight went on for weeks and weeks, and got to the point where I was threatened with a ban. Now, what I find most hypocritical is the fact that many countries or islands have outrageous populations, such as Shops, which by some miracle, has about 30,000,000 people since its founding, which is stated to be 2010. The admins' reason for keeping this massive number? "Oh, it's too deeply embedded into Fanon for it to be changed." But I thought you guys were all for "the rules" right?

My second point involves tragedies and atrocities on Fanon. Since nearly its start, there have been war stories, with quite a few atrocities and tragedies happening as well. In my personal opinion, this is okay, as they are a part of life. However, there still has to be limits, something that the admins, who seem to adore limits, don't seem to have on this type of writing. For example, on this wiki exists a Holocaust parody for some reason, with the victims portrayed as "making orange juice". I find this unacceptable, considering the atrocities committed and the amount of casualties. However, the admins don't seem to care. This is coming from the same people who seem to have a problem with penguin ages and country populations. (Yes, it's that hypocritical).

This brings me to my last and closing point. The admins on this wiki seem to be too concerned with minor problems, creating problems when they don't exist, and seem to be fond of threatening bans. Nearly everything I've written seems to be blocked. The other day I tried to write about a war. Interestingly enough, despite there being no problems, aside from the ones the admins create, my article was declared OOC and I was threatened with a ban. I did my research on the related articles to what I was writing. What did I find was wrong? Nothing. That's right. Nothing. You see, the admins create problems when they don't exist, instead of dealing with real problems. They seem to be okay with a genocide parody continuing to exist, but not a simple war that involves nearly no casualties.

I don't want to war with the admins, but if they keep finding problems when they don't exist, rather than actually doing their job, then maybe it's time to find new admins? I won't mention names, since I don't want to convince anyone toward my biases, but I want the users to know about the problems that plague both the wiki, and the admins. Admins should be dealing with matters that actually well, matter, instead of trying to deal with the (*gasp*) population of 4 million, or (OMG) a penguin can be immortal, or (*gasp*) a country going to war with another country. See the problem yet? My point is, admins need to be concerning themselves with what their job is, not whether a penguin is 100 or 200. That doesn't really change whether Shops Island will lose a war or something, right? --Brant (Talk) (Contributions) 23:31, 23 October 2017 (UTC)

Comments

 * You know there's a difference between "free speech" and "violating established continuity" right -- Chill57181     Talk    Contribs   23:38, 23 October 2017 (UTC)
 * The title is "free speech" because he is using his free speech right to complain, not because of that. While he is violating established continuity it's not too big of an issue and not something that cannot be resolved. I told Wonderweez to lay off the threats and he apologized for it - no user should be threatened for breaking OOC unless they completely and totally refuse to negotiate and continue going their way, and even then only if the OOC they are breaking is very bad and affects continuity deeply. This does not affect it deeply. -- Penstubal (Talk) (Edits) 09:54, 24 October 2017 (UTC)