Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-35818601-20180612152538

Hello, fellow users of RCW.

I know I faked retirement in the past before, but this is a serious matter that I wanted to discuss.

I might be taking my leave from the wiki in the upcoming months if the following problems are not sorted soon.

1. Drama
Ever since January, I have seen bucketloads of drama take place, including but not limited to the Anas-PC drama (where a user attacked some articles in January), the Roblox Skirmish (a flame war between me and Roblox543 that took place when I started locking excessively vandalised pages) and the Overthrow of Loracity (where 50 Operate tried to overthrow Loracity and almost succeeded).

Wars shouldn't exist here. As soon as a war is declared, we should simply contact FANDOM, link them to the evidence and hope for the best and for the war to end. Unfortunately, that doesn't always work out. An example of when this tactic doesn't work is in the Roblox543 wars where we could ban Roblox's IPs, but he kept returning on VPN IPs and so we could never really stop him.

I don't want to be on a wiki where drama constantly happens and there is little peace.

2. Clichepastas
The wiki has been suffering from this problem for a couple of years now. YouTubers post videos rambling on about hacker threats on Roblox (*cough cough* BLOXWATCH GONNA HACK US ALL SOON GET PREPARED!1!1!1!1!1!1!1 *cough cough*) and oblivious kids actually fall for this and click on the videos, and ads pop up, giving the video makers revenue. This tactic is also known as clickbaiting.

Back in March when JoeBee James was promoted to admin, he tried his best to sort out the clichepasta problem. A clichepasta is, for those who are unaware, a creepypasta with features in it that have been overused (those are also known as cliches). Admins began deleting clichepastas that they could find. But unfortunately, to this day, this wiki still contains tons of them.

3. Loss of Interest
I'm losing interest in Roblox nowadays. I haven't played the game for a couple of months, and I've only written one pasta on here. Of course, this isn't much of a problem, since there are the forums and such, where not everything has to do with Roblox. But then again, I want to be on wikis that suit my interests, and not ones that I used to be interested in the topics of but have now lost interest in them.

These three reasons have made me consider retirement.

Please keep in mind that I am not immediately retiring. However, I will dip my activity lower over the next couple of months. If matters do not improve over those months, I shall depart. If the decision is finalised, and I do retire, the most you will ever see from me is a reply on a forum thread or something small like that.

Anyways, thanks for reading my rant on why I might be retiring. If I do retire, I will miss you all greatly.

~UltraEncryption/EnderChas 