User blog comment:Lizzcat77/Frustrations/@comment-53539-20150429172952

Okay long blog, means long response... I'm used to these..

Adults act immature all the time and are not above being stupid or childish. I've got to say that... I've known people twice my age (remember I'm 30) who acted worst then I did as a teenager or child. Just got to say that.

As for getting angry, this goes with human nature, but also a buy-product of the anonymous situation the net provides. Why do I use emoticons? Because otherwise nobody can read the tone of my posts, and you can be sure not everyone reads the posts the same way. When I first was on the net I saw this "^_-" used as a "huh?" or "sure...." expression, then someone pointed out its actually a "wink" which made all my posts appear sarcastic or smarmy. So sometimes the person isn't as angry as possible. In fact in the last 6 months, the only true display of anger I've done myself is at Fingers and the English examples video, because that was something I knew was going to give off the worst possible false impression to impressionable newbies. I'm sure, there are others who appear angier then they are.

Also, its easy to mistake a dispute with another wiki-editor as a sign of anger. No wikia is going to exist without any signs of conflict, especially if strong willed or open individuals are editing. And if someone believes they are right, they can argue to the bitter end for their opinion to count. If you ever feel like something isn't going right, you should speak up and say something. But bare that thing in mind about not all disputes being against you.

Also, some editors only stick to certain area. Like myself, again I'll use as a example. I mostly stick to vocaloid pages and rarely go to lyrics and songs sections. The vocaloids interest me more then the songs themselves, basically. So every time I log on, I go straight to "recent changes" and look to see whats been said in those pages and what changes were made. After wards I go to any related vocaloid website we have on our front page to see what news there is that we've missed, like Vocaloid Keyboard. Most wiki-editors will have similar routines and your more likely to intereact with them in those areas. Time-zones and number of times on a day also are factors that bring things into question of who you'll meet and when. Like I'm on every morning and evening, more or less, unless I've got something to do in town. Some people are only on here once a week!

As for respect...Again... This si several issues. You've got the conflict = mistaken for someone disrespecting someone else. The one thing we're not also s to insult each other. And if we do, you have the right to go to a dmit and beaucrat and ask for the issue to be addressed. In the most serious cases, the post can be removed or altered to remove the conflict.

Sometimes human nature gets the better of someone and they may call something "BS", like i did recently. But I didn't aim it at Fingers, I aimed it at the video because Fingers should know how impressionable newbies are and how easily videos like that can lead to problems. Problems the entire fandom will later have to deal with. Including, fans like Fingers themself... -_-

The other problem with opinions, is how far do you let them go? a person is only most honest when their allowed to express opinions with no restrictions. People have mistaken some of the work I've done as "opinion being made fact" when there were facts behind the the page or something like that, just because in their own opinion, they didn't like it. And this is something that is going to happen in a wiki of this nature and a franchise of this type.

As someone who clashed heads in the One Piece wikia with a guy who was not only rude, but had no respect for anyone working on the wikia at the time, I've yet to come across a person here who couldn't be reasoned with.

And also consider that with this being a community based project, you can get the wikia behind you on certain ideas. This is not a one-editor project and if pushed to vote... Things can change. Aside form some early issues on the wikia, I've not seen us vote on anything. Communication has always been a big problem, and why when I was beaucrat i was forced to open coments to get everyone to talk to each other. As a community project, communication is the single most important thing and why you need to learn how to take advantage of it.

I'm now going to be a bit cold... Because this next bit is a summing up of a wiki project as a whole. Basically, don't forget everyone here has a life to lead and everyone is volunteering their time. The problem is with wikias is someone else will replace a person who walks away eventually. But due to the diversity of individuals, you can go to one wiki where there are people there you can't get on with, and go to another and get on with things. However.... You may find other issues like sloppiness or half-made pages requiring a lot of work.

VO forums is a community also, and though it has no front page to it, it has its own set of individuals and just like here... They can be a real ass sometimes some of those guys. The only difference is here, any newbie can become part of the community and we'll accept them even if their not editing a single page. with VO forums, you pretty much need a sound knowledge of vocaloid before you enter otherwise you'll be mocked and lauged at. :-/

Last thing to mention is that it takes a while if your a editor to get used to the "team". People can mature with age and get "better" over time, so someone who acted an "ass" in the past can be the nicest person you met. Other times, it can go in reverse. If you don't settle in one area of the wikia well, you can move onto other areas as well to avoid those who you don't get on with. The scariest thing as well, I found when I first editing a wiki page is getting used to people responding to you as you never know how they respond.

And my first wiki page was a wikipedia page sometime between 2004 and 2006 (I think close to 2006). I left wikipedia over the editing of the One Piece pages and the greater wikipedia community ruling out what someone can and can't do on those pages. the result peeved off every regular editor. In fact... The wiki-movmenet of the mid-2000s was souly caused by peeve fans who got miffed oer wikipedia politics. And believe me, wikipedia is the most harshest, cruelest and BS wiki when it wants to be. >_<