Board Thread:Community Announcements and Events/@comment-4799587-20140926205622/@comment-4441359-20140927064654

I don't see how removing the RP boards will benefit the wiki, while a large number of  roleplayers  might not edit the mainspace much (something I admit to being guilty of, although I haven't been very active at all lately), they don't actually harm the wiki, in fact lot of them are quite nice and helpful on the forums. Removing the RP boards would remove a lot of users, some of who might edit the mainspace. The roleplaying boards attract users to the wiki (they're what originally brought me here), many of who could become prolific editors.

I do understand why the roleplaying boards clogging up feeds would be annoying, but from what I understand there are filters that can remove RP content from them, and if there was a way to enable them by default wouldn't that be a better solution? If the roleplaying boards are moved to another wiki I fear that lot of casual editors would leave, leaving only a small group of core users. If they are moved I will continue to use both wikis, but many users probably will not, and there is no way that losing members could benefit this wiki.