Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-26037220-20150805000644/@comment-4544033-20150805145144

-I spoke to my friends, and when it comes down to it, this will not help the wiki.

First off Monitor071, you are not giving any reason why we should lift the ban, I cannot support something just because somebody is unhappy with the current system, I need to hear valid reasons that can be backed up with fact. And the facts I see do not support your want to lift the RP ban.

Next, this is not an RP wiki, Wikia is an encyclopedia, our primary goal here is to build and expand articles related to the cannon and lore of the Elder Scrolls universe. Every project we have is dedicated to this, such as the Guilds and even the inter wiki project. The forums are a speaking grounds to ask and answer questions relating to the games and theories about them. RP is story telling, it does not contribute to what we do here.

Third, while it may bring numbers here, history has shown that this will not bring editors, it brings people who will do nothing by role-play, it is added stress without results. Staff will have to watch these, and that means they wont be editing, they will be monitoring, and most of us would prefer to focus our time on expanding the mainspace.

That all being said, I would agree that the current RP's have gone on for some time, if the stories we do host are no longer fun, then we could adapt policy to make sure the stories rotate instead of expanding far past their prime. But when it comes down to it, we have RP wikis for this reason, ones that we support and will assist should they want it, but we should not open up the forums to Role-playing on this wiki.