Board Thread:News and Announcements!/@comment-7971816-20160509192405/@comment-16845200-20160510020740


 * raises eyebrows*

To address the surface issue:

I agree with what Omega said in their response.

I think Skyzy is a pretty darn decent admin for having kept the wiki together through the mindnumbingly long hiatus. *Applauds*

I think that Taya is a pretty darn decent admin for managing to keep it afloat through the majority of Season one/two and laying the foundation to it. *Applauds*

I think that both of you are pretty darn decent admins and that both of you should stay on the adminship until, if the day comes, anyone decides to want to resign of their own volition. Give yourselves a clap on the back.

I also think that this entire issue is two shades shy of what one might call a "witch hunt." Here's the informal definition from Google: "A campaign directed against a person or group holding unorthodox or unpopular views."

And this is where the underlying issue comes in.

Perhaps I could be wrong, but from what I'm reading and seeing, this entire business is in fact a witch hunt to stop people from expressing negative views on the show, and blew up when, to quote from the other thread:

''TotallyTinkerbell said: [...] I commented on the negativity on the wikia and I mentioned that as an admin, it was important to make sure their personal feelings about the show didn't get misinterpreted as the opinion of all admins her. I just wanted to avoid more negativity because that's simply not a good environment to be in. [...]''

Clearly, this entire adminship discourse stemmed from misplaced adversity toward the ~negativity~ that certain users on this wiki has been spouting since the airing of "Thirteen," so let's talk about that. Certain users, of course, including Skyzy. And apparently, her spouting the aforementioned negativity has more weight than anyone else spouting about the aforementioned negativity, because she's an admin, and therefore represents the leadership pantheon on this wiki. And now, she's being scapegoated for it.

There are two immediate issues that I can poke holes through already with this fear.


 * 1) Skyzy is one-half of the two admins on this wiki, and therefore, cannot possibly reflect the entire adminship. Perhaps she has been more visible throughout all of this, but that is not through any fault of her own.
 * 2) Frankly, just because someone who is in a position of power is being negative about the show, it doesn't mean they're not allowed to express on this wiki. That's their opinion. Them being in a position of power has literally nothing to do with it.

Is it true that some users may have been too confrontational and aggressive with it? Yes. In the same vein, is it true that some users may have been being homophobic and lowkey racist about the controversy? Yes.

Does that "some users" designation apply to Skyzy? No. She was not being overly confrontational or aggressive in any of her messages on this topic. She's only called people out for being overtly homophobic and racist in their comments, which is really all anyone has been doing.


 * In case you didn't get it, those "some" users I mentioned definitely included me on the "negativity" front, and I do sincerely apologize for that. In fact, Skyzy was the one who suggested I leave a message to a user I probably personally offended with the nature of one of my replies, which was really, overly aggressive. So, I'm really sorry for that. :/// I took initiative from Skyzy's suggestion and have tried to tone it down since then.

Look, the wiki is a community. In any community, there are bound to be disagreements — over petty things, over important things, over things that maybe shouldn't have been disagreed upon in the first place. And as with any disagreement, there will be two "sides," of which one side will probably consider the other wrong and stupid and what have you. That's simply the nature of people on opposing sides of an argument.

Whether someone be against a certain issue or for a certain issue, they are allowed to have their own opinion and express is as freely as they want. Once again, does that mean that they should be overly antagonistic about it? No. Does that mean they're entitled to be overly homophobic and racist about it? No. Does that mean they're entitled to be blatantly insensitive about it? No. Regardless, they retain the right to express how they feel about whatever topic is being disputed over. In this case, it's the show itself. Which has clearly ruffled feathers, given that this is The 100 Wiki. (I'll get more on this in a sec.) As has been demonstrated in many places through the wiki, there are going to be people who still love how and where the show is going and there are going to be people who absolutely hate it. And just because someone hates it doesn't mean they should be silenced. Same goes the other way around. Everyone still has an opinion about the show, and so, it is a related topic.

And again...I'm pretty sure that admins are allowed to have differing views. One being positive and one being negative does not give anyone precedence over the other.

Taya and Skyzy are part of the leadership of this wiki. This does not change anything in terms of how both of them think about the show. Neither of their opinions need to necessarily reflect the opinions of the other, and both can express their opinions about how they do like the show or hate the show. And that opinion doesn't reflect the other's, nor does it reflect the entire wiki's opinion, nor does it have to. Done. Boom. End of discussion.

And lastly...where the heck are people are going to slam The 100 over, which they have every right to do, if they have a Wikia account? Buffy Wiki? History Wiki? I'm Frustrated With The Constant Murdering Of Minorities Wiki? Because, hey, the last one doesn't freaking exist.

The 100 Wiki is a place to talk about The 100 — its virtues and its vices. Every show has them, some more than others. Besides, this show is in the middle of a heated controversy right now. It would be both unconscientious and ignorant to act like on the wiki this stuff isn't happening.

In short, this is a place to discuss the show. Expressing a negative opinion about the show is still very much discussing the show. And if the majority of the conversations happening on a wiki about the show happen to be negative, then consider what that is saying about the show itself.