Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20141001194150/@comment-69.247.6.120-20141002215346

I have always loved role-playing. I love the creativity involved, and love being around people that are intellectually stimulating. But there is such a thing as having too much of a good thing, and it has gotten to that point now, where the role-playing forums are causing rather large problems on more than just a single front.

Not only have there been days where literally the only thing on the recent changes are role-playing forums, but a lot of times, these same forums get so long and drawn out, that you can tell people start to get bored, and next thing you know, there is some sort of argument going on, and grudges are formed which have transcended onto additional role-playing forums and even the chat-room (I will admit that I have hardly been in chat since my return, but just during the few times that I have jumped in, there were arguments born from forum animosity).

So, there is a problem. And my personal opinion over this, is that the role-playing forums need to be at least temporarily removed from the wiki, until a time comes where aftereffects have calmed down. I think the compromises proposed earlier are decent, but it comes to mind that argumentum ad temperantiam is a logical fallacy, and a middle ground cannot always be achieved, nor should it be desired in every instance. I mention that, because if we allow the old role-playing forums to exist while disallowing new ones, then all we are doing is putting a bandaid on getting our current disruptions settled.

The longer we extend this process, the more bitter users are going to get, and the longer it is going to take for users to get used to not having role-play forums on this wiki, when to me, what we need to be doing is getting everyone used to the changes as soon as possible, so that the healing process can go ahead and begin. Once the wiki disruptions over role-play forums have finally withered away to insignificance, then I think it would be appropropriate to begin discussions again as to whether or not this wiki should host the forums once again, and what needs to happen to make sure that these types of disruptions never happen again in such high amounts.

Tl;dr? I think the role-playing forums have been handled poorly, and it has resulted in a lot of bitterness that is adversely affected the wiki. We need time to heal, and maybe in the future we can bring them back with a better etiquette behind them.