User blog comment:Carnarvan/Teamwork Makes The Dreamwork/@comment-26024882-20170524220209

WARNING -- There is a A LOT written here as I have been extremely passionate about this for a great length of time. Quite frankly I expect no one to read it.

To start off I will address the very first thing that was said. "I will not deny that the wiki has become clique-ish, I don’t think anyone can deny that." The wiki has not become that, the wiki has been that way for ALL of the time that I have been a contributor since March of 2015. It is highly likely it has been that way for much more time than I am aware of if there are people who have been here longer that are willing to admit it.

This blog comes off to me personally like justification for what has been going on. I also get the feeling, from the choice of words, that the blame should be spread amongst the user base which is completely acceptable from my point of view. Because if we truly are a community, a so-called family then that is exactly how it should be and why I constantly stress that fact when writing about this particular topic. ALL of us have to do something to fix the issue not just a select few.

The problem is not communication. The problem, as we all know it, happens to be preferences. We prefer to do what is easiest. We are not an accepting people because of that. We judge, we blame and nevertheless we revert back to what we know best. That happens to be the group dynamic, people we know and feel comfortable with or have worked with before. The people that we feel we can rely on. It sure is everyone's fault and that is yet another thing I have said before. We are all guilty of sticking to what we know in terms of RP partners or collaborators and that is the biggest problem of all. When the supposed attempts at reaching out to other users are made they are not always given the same amount of enthusiasm that we can all clearly see is given to something that may have been embarked upon before or after with a more familiar face (or name). I have done it myself and I have seen it done many times before.

The AI Team and the secrecy therein was never a concern. I am under the impression everyone understands that for an event to go as planned the most important details needs to remain between that Department and not many others. It has only recently come to my attention that some people feel intimidated by Admins and Rollbacks (I must assume B-crats would be top of the list), I am not one of those people. As a matter of fact I happen to be the opposite. During my time here I have seen for myself that people in power (aka powerusers) tend to forget what it is like to be a "regular user", or someone new. Despite my place on the team I am still one of the people who does not feel like I have a right to ask someone else for an RP and it takes more courage and strength of will than I oftentimes can find to put myself out there and I know I am not the only person to feel that way.

Again, to reiterate, the problem here is not communication. Enough talking is done on a regular basis by pretty much everyone. What needs to be done is for EVERYONE to accept the fact that the wiki is bigger than your friends or closest companions. There are people here who may have never spoken to one another who might understand each other much better than anyone would ever think they could. And no one would know that because giving a "stranger" a chance to be an acquaintance or even a friend is more difficult than starting yet another RP with someone who has already reached that status. Or perhaps people think they have been open and welcoming and unfortunately they were a bit more closed off than they might be aware of. Consider this enlightenment -- we all need to try harder.