Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-33389681-20180103201926/@comment-25936766-20180103203649

Chikkane wrote: Was that actually ever a thing? To an extent. Like every community there's always someone who's either more aggressive or Suffers Newbies Poorly.

Of course, there are and were also people here who were the opposite of that instead.

Was the reputation justified? In some cases, yes. But in most cases it was just some kids who came to the Wiki, tried to "help" while disregarding all the rules, and basically made a mess.

Then the staff fixes the mess swiftly but the kid either doesn't listen to, doesn't get, or just ignores the explanation given for why the staff, say, reverted their edit to a page. Then they get angry, and rant somewhere else, like Reddit.

Of course, at least nowadays there are multiple people who are aware of this, that sometimes people call the Wikia "entitled assholes who only accept edits if they made them" when the Staff was, in reality, just doing their job.

..........Of course, it did not help at all that long ago, and likely even today, the Staff was quick to revert edits if they went against the rules, yet often made edits that also went against the rules yet were allowed in anyway.

For example, Qrow's Semblance being "Shapeshifting into a Bird", back when he did it before his fight with Tyrian. This was pure speculation, and that is not allowed in the articles (or at the very least, it's made perfectly clear that it is speculation), yet it was still allowed in, with factual wording to boot, for months.

So from an outside perspective, yeah, the idea was justified in the eyes of a good number of people.

Is this wikia still known for being that way? As far as I know, I don't know.

Mostly because while some people hate the RWBY Wiki, for the most part it's just "no one cares about the Wiki" instead of downright hate.