User blog comment:The Wiki Meister/Revive This Wiki/@comment-24087318-20140807125025

Incase the comment/edits (comedits?) I made on the main page here wern't getting the point across, or you came here from the link on them.

I'm going to start off saying yay, someone made a fanon where characters who don't quite fit the level of standards other Fan sites have can have a place for them to be recorded and hang out and RP.

Boo for how you guys are going about it, or at least are handling being split.

Honestly, I like the idea of this place. And I was one of the tightest ruliest rule nazis from the RWBY Fanon Wiki. But it's shameful seeing every page her splattered with slander and jabs about other fansites like it's a bad bad terrible bad wrong Hitler killed 6 million OCs wrong thing. Fan Sites are allowed to run and operate by their own sets of rules and standards, and if these mean characters listed under them have to pass a sort of quality control so they balance out in power compared to the canon, or only allow Faunus characters, or whatever their rules are, they're allowed to have them as much as a place is allowed to not have them.

What isn't acceptable is reading pages, comments, threads, and seeing nothing but slander and jabs about how displeased people are with other fan sites.

It's unprofessional, I mean sure, it'll get you the attentions of people who are displeased with those places, but even those have some people who think it's too far. Who think it's just being petty and childish. And if any completely outside people come across it, and the first thing they read is your front page filled with attacks on other fan sites...it's not the best first impression. It's an impression that you're vindictive, childish and petty, and can't let go when someone wrong you. Imagine how you'd feel as a new person if the first thing you saw was hate. You'd be afraid to get on the bad side of the people that wrote it. And for a place that advertises itself as literally, "A place where anyone can belong" that's exactly the opposite message you'd be giving.

Think about this, say you're watching a political campaign between two sides. Do you really find it all that tasteful when one starts throwing mud around on the other side? In general, you don't. It just puts you off, because that party, instead of boasting and showing off what they CAN do, they instead become petty and show off the stuff on the other side they don't like.

If you really wanted to show up another fan site, and show you're better than them, in every aspect. Make a better fan site. Don't perpetuate a squabble, don't give into the hate or your dislike of how other places run. Be polite, kind, and come across as truly an accepting place for anybody and everybody.

And you can start doing that by cleaning up the wording on a lot of your main pages and threads. Even the RWBY Fanon doesn't make their "Egotistical" main page all about bashing other Fan sites saying theirs is the best because of their rules and how they run it.

Also getting a chat up in here wouldn't hurt. I like those things.

Ooh, and free doughnuts.

Signed, Someone Who Doesn't Like Seeing Dreams Die. (Even though she made a job out of doing it.)