Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-189.217.47.59-20161206085118/@comment-4403232-20161207070504

But as for the topic of "Why is the wiki hated?" it unfortunately tends to boil down to a few things.


 * 1) Early on we did have some issues with page content and past administration. This gave some people some understandably bad first impressions.
 * 2) People from a website generally don't like people from another website.
 * 3) The wiki is fairly large and active for its size, and for the size of RWBY. Barring server issues, the chatroom is basically never empty, even during the off-season. The forums are always bristling with activity. We generally dominate the SEO (search results) from Google for RWBY stuff. If we're big and we're popular, it's gonna attract jealousy and hate, especially when generally the expectation people have for a wiki is just "to have some info about stuff".
 * 4) Individuals do find themselves getting blocked/banned from here. Getting kicked out of a community is a sure-fire way to make someone dislike it. However, odds are you're gonna insult the place rather than admit that you were being dumb/problematic.
 * 5) People like to join in on a hate bandwagon. If you like one thing, and see a whole bunch of its fans ripping on something else, you're likely to join in.

If the hate really did boil down to actual reasonable issues, then they'd be addressed, and users of this wiki would most likely share those issue and be actively working to fix them as well. But really, at the end of the day, the hate is exaggerated. Most times it's mentioned on places, one person will go "Yeah everyone hates that place" and it will receive several replies of "Wait, why do people hate it?" If most people wonder why something's hated, then odds are it probably isn't hated as much as claimed.