User:RRabbit42/Talk archive:Mar 2012

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Okay, you know I changed wikis, so I'm just asking all the admins why they spend time here. Bearing in mind, I did move because this wiki has 8,079 articles which grow VERY slowly now, and Wikisimpsons already has over 14,000, so please don't reply "because I think this wiki can get better, we've got to try first", well, we have tried. Now Jhonevans and I have gone, it's going dead. 16:29, March 12, 2012 (UTC)


 * I stay because I kind of like it here. I'm used to the new layout and I don't have any problems with it. Plus, I have different motivations for improving this wiki than just having a large number of articles. At work, I deal with people and companies that are only concerned with numbers. Their business practices are not admirable and eventually it shows. My philosophy at work and here on this wiki is "Do what you love and you'll love what you do." If it means we don't have a larger number of articles than another website, so be it. I will be happy with what we do have.


 * Since you now seem to be echoing what has been said before (leave this wiki), let me share a little more philosophy. When this all started, there were comparisons to the American Revolution. In short, it was "let's break away from oppression". Continuing that analogy, it's fine for the new nation to say "People of England, come to America, we have new land and new opportunities". That's an invitation. Each person can make the decision about what's best for them: stay in England or go to the United States.


 * But what has been said in the past year really hasn't been an invitation. It's been more along the lines of "You should leave England. Abandon it completely." Or it's been "You have to leave England and we're going to force you to leave." The decision to leave Wikia was in response to being forced to do something they didn't like and they turned around and tried to force other people to do something they may not want to do.


 * Now it's my turn to echo what I've said before. People keep saying that the other wiki is better. If that's true, then there's an easy way to prove it: let the market decide. In this case, the market is the search engines, visitors and editors.


 * Keep working on the other wiki to make it the best you can. If you think this wiki is dying, let it. Let us continue on with what you're sure is a futile effort. However, know what every time someone comes around to try and recruit people from here or to say this wiki is dying, that tells me two things: they're not willing to leave this wiki alone and it sounds more and more like they're trying to convince themselves that what they say is true. —RRabbit42 ( leave a message ) 02:15, March 13, 2012 (UTC)
 * Okay, here's my message to both of you (TheShadowCrow is the other one):


 * Supplying information for viewers. The main point of a wiki. Also, Simpsons Wiki and Wikisimpsons have pretty much 70% the same content, so it's quite pointless. Right now, if you want info on comics, you go to Wikisimpsons, if you want extra info on couch gags, you come here. Right now, this is my main thought: stay if you like, but I don't like working hard on something that isn't evolving much.


 * By the way, that philisophical statement didn't help much. 17:32, March 13, 2012 (UTC)