Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-24325144-20141003193129/@comment-16047389-20141008221758

WikiaWizard wrote:

Dark Jeto wrote:

Zeta1127,89thLegion wrote: What is so wrong with that? Does the RP community really need to be here in the first place? My point is that it isn't a true compromise. It ensures that the RP board will eventually be removed, despite the original overwhelming consensus that opposed the motion. I have a question for Dark Jeto - How do we know that it will end as you have outlined above? I have to say that your logic is rather sound but what's to say that they won't come back?

I mean, yes they might spend the majority of the time on the other RP wikis out there but maybe they will enjoy coming back because it is here where it began (or at least, from what I gather) and where the RP starts so it is required to stay (unless the other wiki's want to change that later on).

What I'm saying is that I think it's not guaranteed to end the way you say neither is it guaranteed that the community will simply oust the RP thread from the forums in the future. There would be little to no actual incentive for them to keep coming back. At first, the hub might be the most used method, but eventually the roleplayers that come to this site exclusively, or mostly, for roleplay will find that it is simply easier to create their threads on the other wikias.

Also, I wouldn't blame them if they refused to come back because of how they were treated. Looking at the original thread, you can see just how some members of this community treated roleplayers with disdain. Honestly, I was rather disgusted at some of the comments. Now, to be fair there were certainly attacks from both sides. But the only real reason the roleplayers stuck around as long as they did, was because the RP board was as strong as it was. As soon as they realize that it is simply easier to remain exclusively on actual RP dedicated wikias now that the actual threads will not be hosted on this one, they'll do so. Now whether or not the sudden loss will actually be a significant one is up to one's own interpretation. But they're not going to keep coming to a wikia that doesn't treat them like they are welcome.