User blog:PacifistFist/Why I signed up.

I'm not really here to write a blog. This is a wiki. I'm here to contribute and practice my editing.

There is, however, one thing I want to get off my chest. Even though I assume few people, if anyone, will read this. The most frustrating thing, to me anyway, about working on a Bethesda game wiki is that every player wants to record each weird incidence, anecdote, occurance, and disturbance as a Note or, more likely a Bug on this wiki.

A bowl once flew off a table and hit Aela The Hunress. That is wonderful, but it's not useful wiki information. The thing about this enginge is, weird things are going to happen. Veterans of Oblivion, Fallout 3, etc. understand this and accept it as a fact of life.

I feel guilty, yet annoyed when I have to delete someone's story about how they fell through the ground at point X. If you reload your save, it will probably never happen again and may never happen to anyone else in the world. How many bugs in these games are really, reliably reproducable? Plenty. Perhaps not as many as you might think if you only read the "Bugs" section of each article. So, the next time Shadowmere kills your wife, tell your friends and family, it's a funny story, but it's not wiki material.

--PacifistFist (talk) 04:55, January 4, 2012 (UTC)