Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-26567650-20141215045705/@comment-24261123-20141221185420

SonicTheHedgehogDude wrote: Echidnaknuckles-11 wrote: Can someone tell me why the flippin heck this was necessary? A long emote list never hurt anyone, we're adding back emotes we already use, so that itself is redundant, unneeded, tedious, and ENTIRELY AVOIDABLE. What was the point? So what if we have a few unused emotes? Why do we need to have an unprecedented removal of the emotes by two administrators WITHOUT community consensus? I mean, Dude, you wonder why people call you a dictator. I'm doing this for the benefit of the community, not for myself. So calling me a 'dictator' is not only invalid but an insult on what I'm giving to this community. For many years I've strive to make this wiki the best it can be, but calling me a dictator won't do jack ****.

This wiki needs improvement. I'm here to help.

See, the previous emote list was filled by an astonishing amount of emotes that are in a state where it's not being used. We have emotes added by users who've already left this wiki long time. We have emotes that completely made no sense, and was added to the pleasuring of the user who requested it. If you look at the last edit before the clearing, you can look through every emote and clearly see which ones are used and which ones are not. Now, the emote list had to be refreshed, so we can decide on which emotes we actually need. I've stated this many times prior.

The addition of the emotes by request is the efficient way to go. If we delete emotes one-by-one, we won't be making progress. Everyone would be arguing at each other on each emote. It's not necessary.

The clearing of the emote list doesn't need community approval because it's entirely administrator discretion. The admins add and delete the emotes. It needs no approval by the community, we just do it.

Obviously, you don't know the blatant problem with the emote list, so I'm going to leave my response as is. Everything will continue as said. Request your existing emote here. First off, I DON'T see you as a dictator. I can just see the people that do's points. So who does this benefit exactly? How does making a shorter list improve this wiki? Why does having more emotes than we use suddenly cause a problem? If these emotes were not being used, as you've stated, then why would there be any arguments on deleting them one by one? If there are unneeded emotes, is an overreaching purge that removes the ones we use as well really the most efficent way to go? I get it, the list was long and I wholeheartedly agree, since when was that a problem?

So I ask, who does this benefit? Who can say this is better tediously asking for each emote we already use and love? Who can now feel better knowing that half of their favorite emotes are gone, and may never be added back? Who can now feel free knowing that the long list of variety has been completely destroyed and started again from scratch? Who feels happy knowing that the rather complete and full jigsaw has been taken away and destroyed and we're sitting here asking for pieces back?

Look around. Pretty much no one wanted, asked for, or likes this. Who are you benefiting, I implore, who?