Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-29684190-20190728232427/@comment-25936766-20190730040305

VerBeeker wrote:

1) Hey STUYK, how's life? People told me you left.

2) The Wiki is known in certain circles as being a font of incorrect information, a haven of thinly veiled homophobia, and there have been incidents of cyberbullying in the past. 1) The Wiki? Nope, but there's nothing to do here until november. Besides, I got college.

Now, the Discord, technically Kami banned me for I think 1 month. The reason being, some random kid came in, said that Fortnite had some skin that referenced Yang, and posted it. The "reference" being nothing more than a generic robot arm that you would find on any cyberpunk work ever made, that's not even similar to Yang's in color, shape or even the arm it replaces.

So I pointed it out. And snarked that the kid would likely then say that any random big-titty blonde anime girl is alluding to Yang (which would, funnily enough, be more believable). Which made them explode, complete with all-caps.

But despite me being calm and the kid blatantly overreacting and calling me things, I'm the one who gets banned because the kid used the "I'm autistic" card (and naturally empty claims are all evidence one needs. The only thing the kid proved was his IED) and Kami is apparently an idiotic worshipper of outrage culture.

But regardless of the ban's length I'm in no hurry to go back there until Volume 7 begins and I get a reason to endure Kami's constant and unfunny shitposting with puns that are almost never good. Most fun people had already left anyway (and Kanno got banned a few days later).

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2) Can't say if there's been cyberbullying here (as in, actual cyberbullying, not merely "they said mean things to me"), but I've never seen anyone claim that the wiki has that problem.

Same with the "thinly veiled homophobia"; no one ever says the wiki is full of homophobes unless one is talking to a Tumblrite moron, the kind of people who see the slightest dislike of their "obviously canon" gay ships as "blatant homophobia" regardless of reasons.

The "full of wrong info" part though, that's one you can see everywhere. The RWBY Wiki is never going to live down the old "Qrow's Semblance is turning into a bird!" meme.