Board Thread:Site Discussions/@comment-3416945-20160829051027/@comment-1272757-20160906071716

I don't appreciate my comments being called fear-mongering. The fact that our most active editors are mostly the people suggested to become admins or 'crats is actually credence to my point; they already do or have taken care of most of the editing needs for our wiki. With them doing most of the editing on our content, there's little room for new contributors besides community involvement. If the community aspect is removed in its entirety, what's left for new or returning members to do or participate in?

In my time on Wikia which is now nearing a literal decade, if there's one thing I've learned its that wikis will always have Users coming and going; the community will never remain static, and no User will be around forever- SNN is downright blessed to have so many Users from before even my time still sticking around and looking after the wiki, such as Myself, Mystic, and Supermorff. Users who have dedicated nearly or over a decade of their lives to this wiki purely due to their love of the series and this site.

A wiki only gets such passionate and dedicated members by getting the community involved and engaged. Back when I joined SNN had an active forum side to it, particularly for fanon and roleplaying in contrast to its informational aspects. I'd be lying if I said the removal of that hadn't been a factor in my own decline in activity. I'd even speculate that it's part of the reason some of the people I knew on this site eventually left themselves, among other factors.

But bringing such things back would probably only be a band-aid at best. The point is, if we want the wiki to persevere and survive, we don't need to relegate all of its power and decision-making to a group I could count on one hand while the community is left in silence. If we want people to contribute and see the site as something worth giving their time to, people need something to actually do. A reason to feel like they could find people of similar interests on this site. A reason to feel like a part of a community. This "solution" might streamline the wiki's functionality, but it won't do anything to actually fix the problem.