User blog comment:ShawnCognitionCP/Why the Roleplaying Board Should Not be Removed/@comment-1600847-20140910120419/@comment-17114085-20140911020449

It wouldn't kill the wiki. But with a bunch of users leaving as the result of the RP board's closing the opposite of the desired effect would happen. The main, and only, reason the admins have for removing the board is so it doesn't spam the recent edits page and distracts users from the mainspace (Which is what some of them think it does, which they claim takes attention away from the mainspace and causes it to have less edits). Losing a large portion of the community would cause the mainspace edits to go down way more than removing the threads from the recent edits would raise them. While some users think of the RPers as 'irrelevant to this wiki' (A direct quote) many of them do edit the mainspace. I for one have over 800 mainspace edits.