User blog comment:Pihou/How to describe Wiki/Community Attitude?/@comment-12633677-20140614212841/@comment-53539-20140615105814

Chev hits the nail on the head... I've been on the net since about 1998, and in my time I've seen everything from racial abuse to trolling to just plain nastiness.

I sometimes complain about the hipster crowd of VO, but their a minority group right now. Also... While I complain about them, I've experience worst in the Mortal Kombat fandom. I had someone mock me for being British, I've talked about this before, but until about 2006, I was afraid to reveal my nationality. The early net was dominated by Americans and sometimes the culture clash was nasty. I thought low of American nationals on the net because of it, and it took several year for me to personally recover and think better of Americans.

It was mostly down to the fact, whenever I came across it, nobody stopped it. So it always made me feel like I wasn't welcomed and fighting a loosing battle like I was being considered inferior to the rest of the community based on where I was born. :-(

I've found with wikias, you either get two kinds;
 * 1) The type that is filled with people from a open minded or broad audience who want to work on the wikia and will let anyone in.
 * 2) The close-minded kind that don't want to let anyone but a selective group edit their wikia.

The second is rare, but I have come across it. :-/