Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20141001194150/@comment-17114085-20141002121750

Ghost Anubis wrote: I said most of them Harold, I did not say all. As there are more often then not exceptions to everything. Secondly, CTs do affect the mainspace depending on the topic of the CT itself, & the very idea of the CT is to get the communities input. So tell me, how does one claim community, but never actually get involved in anything community related. That was the point I was trying to make. As somebody who sees & watches every CT & constantly watching the recent activity, I can tell you for a fact that 90% of the people here do nothing of the above, then suddenly decided to get "involved" because it actually affects them now. That's not a community FYI. A community is many things, it depends how you want to see it. A community is: a group of people 'living' in the same place or having a particular characteristic in common. it is also a feeling of fellowship with others, as a result of sharing common attitudes, interests, and goals.

By Wikia's definition a community is the sum total of all of the editors on a given wikia. And an editor is anyone who edits, as in anyone who has an edit count. Everyone in this Wikia has an edit count, so everyone is part of this community. Just because someone doesn't edit the mainspace it doesn't mean they are not a part of this community. That is something people don't agree on, that is clear. But a Wiki is not just a mainspace, sure the mainspace is the most important part of the Wiki but it isn't the only part. If people were to just edit on the mainspace and stop interacting with each other on things like the Forums, the Chat, the Blogs and anywhere else people can socialize on this Wiki then it would become like a factory. People would just come here to 'work' and all the fun would be drained out. Is that really what you all want?

Anyway did you read my large post? Because I made some very interesting observations there, like the fact the RP Board accounts for about 2/3 of this Wiki's active user base. I talked about the Hub Compromise, how some people can still choose to use it. And I even said that if the RP community does grow considerably in the future, like for example twice its size, then the Hub Compromise would become necessary.