Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-3467648-20140409150159/@comment-53539-20140410073706

Misteryeevee wrote: Is VO really that bad though?

Um...

I never really go there, so I'm not entirely sure what it's like.... Half the problem is just how distanced we are from them. Even from our beginnings... I found that VO'ers, the alpha core fans that make up its backbone of the community, didn't want to do anything but criticize the newbie fans. I remember saying if the fandoms wiki pages (wikia and wikipedia) are sound, it would improve things a great deal. Yet it was a few months before anyone did anything and for the most part... 50% of the wikipedia page at least was my effort to bring it up to snuff. I still spoon feed it information every so often.

Also, because VO fourms isn't newbie freely, they often can be imposing to to the point newbies are put off, which is why I don't want this wikia to be quite so on par with that. This would defeat the point of the service we provide. My focus haqs always been on making sure that first few months of a newbies life in the fandom, are solid. Hence why I put effort into pages like Character Voice, even though it got lashing for its existence at first.

This is why I have such a stance on this topic... I don't like the idea of too much imposing because its often a delicate time of a newbie fans life. True they create nonsense or useless topcs, but that topic could have taken all their confidence just to post. I'm not saying the topic does anything else, but depending on the following posts often depends on if they mdo more within the community. You always get one post wonders, but you don't always see forums catering for the inexperienced fans.

But as Fingers said, depending on your perspective... I'm such there are times the editors here have a bad impact on the fans we're catering for, even if its unintentional. :-/