Board Thread:The Seven Seas Court/@comment-3524871-20170710210733/@comment-3443450-20170711041524

LawIronhawk wrote: I'm not allowed to vote, but I am heavily against this. The enacment of allowing even more profanity to enter the wiki unfiltered will completely battle any attemps to bring back old users and ruin our chances of bringing over new users. I want new users to feel welcomed to our community and old users to feel at home. Right now, I feel like we've all been thinking too much about the present, like we're the only people who are ever going to use this wiki. I don't know about you guys, but I think we all need to wake up and smell the coffee. POTCO, the game that our wiki was based on and what gave it the majority of its activity, has returned. We have so many opportunities that we just aren't taking, such as the hundreds of players that get on it each day, not to mention the thousands of pirates on the forums. If we want to bring our wiki back, we've got to make big changes, we've got to make it more family-friendly, we've gotta reattune it with POTCO and if we stay in this insane mindset of thinking that more profanity will make the community better, I don't see that happening. Another misconception, profanity actually won't be entering the wiki completely unfiltered. Moderators are going to be making sure that all posted content isn't just trying to get around our swearing policies.

Old users are way too far gone to even think about at this point, those who would even see us post on their talk page are the ones who are still around today. Really the only argument to be made for swearing in links ruining our chances with new users is the fact that the official TLOPO IRC doesn't allow links like tyhat, but even then that's a small small bunch of people and it was only because TLOPO staff is keeping it family friendly, that doesn't mean the vast majority of TLOPO players want it to be family friendly. There's absolutely no reason to make vast changes away from swearing to make people feel at home who we have absolutely no idea what they're like.

The only thinking about the present for people in no particular order:

Lith: "What am I gonna work on today."

Mall: "Where does capitalism fit in my life."

Zoomer: "Maybe content, maybe NS."

Nults: "How can I get back to my beloved wiki."

Me: "Fixfixfixfixfixfixfix everything."

I'm too tired to keep going but my point is absolutely nobody is thinking of the present in the big bad way like we're going to be the only ones here ever. I mean I for one work around on the Wiki doing things solely to make it all look better for new users so y'know.

Just cause POTCO returned in the form of TLOPO does not mean we should give up our principles. We transformed into the GFW to write about whatever we want to write about here, and we shouldn't just open our arms to more stubs and very small articles on everything POTCO. All those opportunities could be spent working on getting people from other games too, so yes I'll admit we're lacking on recruiting altogether.

If we want to "bring our wiki back," or in better words "make it active with stubs," we do not have to make these big changes you're talking about. And we ESPECIALLY do not have to reattune it with POTCO, that part of our Wiki can either be added to in a small amount like it is currently or it can go back to being dead again. But I don't think any of us want to see us turn over our old leaf back to being the PPW.

For the record nobody thinks this is gonna make the community more appealing or better to outsiders, we just don't think these restrictions matter in the state the wiki is in right now.