Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24296957-20160223024207/@comment-5426254-20160223053444

It stays.

I agree with Dust and his points, but there's another interesting viewpoint we need to factor in here.

I know exactly what you are talking about, seeing complaints, memes, jokes and in general, a lot of saltiness over the past 5 confession threads or so. I have a glimpse of what the staff must be going through, being halfway finished with the re-reviewer application, where I am factoring in both the technical detail and attempt to defuse any potential saltiness from the OC creators in my review.

The problem is that it is the person, not the board. This isn't the only community that makes RWBY OCs. People everywhere make them, and with the general idea that they be as close to godlike perfection, there are bound to be issues where the creators want to win arguments and to be proven right in their superiority.

I have seen blogs and whatnot over the past three years talking about oh, how people would leave the wiki because of stress, work, or how people would leave because of drama. Ranging from the departure of TorrentAB, DragonBossGala, the issues surrounding Sel's brief stint as admin, the infamous Leaf-Sel conflict on Leaf's blog, where entire chat logs were dug up as evidence, along with any newbies making some kind of blog about how the wiki "wronged" them somehow.

Here in an anonymous forum, the consensus is that people lampoon the complaints. Heck, the posters might probably be hesitant to continue on with the argument, after seeing the possible responses against their issues. And it's on a thread that fewer people will either see nor care about, versus a blog that is bound to catch everyone's attention and add fuel to the fire.

Have you asked yourself how many "complaint blogs" have been made since the implementation of the confessions? The number of them have slowly been decreasing, if I recall correctly. And several non-issues regarding Mavros Sterben (no offense) have been quickly resolved. Even those were proof that it happens everywhere, mostly being messages on people's walls.

This isn't to discredit the stress and hardship that we all face, but for the most part, we're of a mature age. We shouldn't let something as silly as a few butthurt individuals drag us down, nor cry bloody murder every time we see one of these things. We have to let go and move forward, because we are able to. We have been patient and resilient for as long as we can remember, and we will continue to do so.

-GL