Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-189.217.47.59-20161206085118/@comment-24993958-20161206100248

There isn’t one answer, not really…

Some of the hate comes from the rwby fanon (a wiki for fan character) with which we were affiliated way back, but after, among other things, a conscious decision on the staffs part to use only canon material things got heated and escalated past the breaking point.

There are also…I wish I wasn’t able to use this term…tmblr like users that are used to posting a theory and fishing for likes, as opposed to having that theory dissected and analyzed like it is to be expected from a forum, so they mistake that for attacks and leave telling people we’re assholes.

Some might be forum users that were around before moderators got appointed so certain users people got away with some uncalled for personal attacks that were bound to make them not want to come back.

Obviously the landscape of the wiki changed since then. As Spirit pointed out the admins decided to be less ban happy with spoilers, pay more attention to the forums by appointing mods, and even allowed fan creations in the off topic board.

Notice how none of the things I mentioned would directly impact the source of the hatred from those people. At the end of the day we want to be a good wiki with a managed forum, which means we want discussions to happen and to minimize fan info…and at the end of the day, some people just come here with different expectations.