Board Thread:The Seven Seas Court/@comment-4619254-20160717065545

You could make the argument that this shouldn't be on the SSC, but I digress.

Two years ago next week (it's not midnight yet here on the west coast thx), the 'Shift in Direction' vote passed the SSC changing the landscape of the wiki as we know it. We could write about (basically) whatever we wanted, produce new things that would've been unimaginable just three years ago at this point.

The problem is, we've never gone all-in on this act, hence the name. We can either move forward or backwards, and I'd much rather move forward. This isn't just a request to the staff, this is a request to the community, and a goal for myself.

A POTCO Wiki
At its core, this place will forever be a part of the Pirates Online community. We as people will remain members of this community. But for the wiki, that ship has sailed. We have to fully, 100% move on from that community for the greater good of this site. Am I saying that POTCO roleplay should be banned on this site? Yes, that's exactly what I'm saying. POTCO roleplay, from nearly all accounts, is bad and harmful to a community. "BUT NED MUH ACTIVITY", there's absolutely zero indication (that I've seen) that any roleplayer will choose us over a site like PORBrit.

I'm not saying to just forget where we came from and hide what some of us still are, but what I am saying is to leave it in the past and participate in POTCO things elsewhere (okay so I am sort of saying to hide it kek)

New Users
The single biggest issue for this wiki since POTCO closed, bar none, has been attracting new users. This, in part, is due to the fact that for all intents and purposes we're still seen as a POTCO wiki.

But enough about that. We're in the best spot to attract new users now than we have been in years. There are multiple ways we can go about this; we can request a spotlight (we did a while back but it never happened for some reason), I have a way to promote us on the front page of Wikia for everybody to see, we can post something on the NationStates forums, we can go out and affiliate with more wikis (the fact that we haven't is admittedly my fault), even some things that I haven't thought about. My point is, we're in a good spot to get them here, the challenge is keeping them here.

This isn't a job. This isn't about what they can do for us because that's already very clear, this needs to be about we can do for the new users. An outlet to write and talk about gaming, a place to play games with others, a place to talk in a (mostly) safe environment, these are the things we need to promote and engrain into the fabric of this website. We aren't Fantendo, we need to do this our own way. We need to stop looking back to 2011 to see what we did right then. It's not gonna work this time around. We need to get this right in a new way and it's gonna take all of us if we want it to work.

To summarise:

We need to go all-in on this plan to revitalise the wiki and leave our beginnings, well, in the beginning. This is a call to anyone and everyone who gives a damn about this site; it's time to make it great again™. Not by becoming what we were five years ago, but becoming something entirely new. We can do what needs to be done to make this site completely new and bring in a new generation of users.

I am counting on your input to improve this request.

Many thanks,

 