User blog comment:Marcus Junior/Marc's Reformist Manifesto/@comment-4080028-20161022201324

Le sigh... Now I know what Lewush was talking sabout in his blog, and I'm SERIOUSLY wishing I didn't. Now where to start with my thoughts on this...?

Well I suppose I can start with why I find this to be, in my nicest possible way, a silly and pointless thing to do. After all these years of sticking to our guns and staying true to the whole point of our wiki, NOW you want to change everything just because things are getting difficult for the users here? MJ, let's be real here, this wiki was on a countdown to self-destruction as far back as when it was made in 2011. As fun of an idea as it may have seemed back then, you guys, ChopperFan, yourself and so forth, should have had the foresight to know this sort of thing would happen sooner or later, and so I see everyone who's participated here, including myself, in need of stepping up and claiming responsibility for why things have gotten to this point.

Do the rules and the core concept of this wiki make things difficult for newer users and the entire community? Yes, I won't deny that, and it's even hindered me on occasion. HOWEVER, I've always valued this wiki's "no breaking canon" rule because I felt it's what made us stand out from everyone else and made us unique; not to mention I always had a great time working hard on characters, Devil Fruits and so forth when I was forced to obey the wiki's various strict rules. However, I am just as much aware that I may be the only one, or among a select few, who ever felt this way and that there were others who would just as likely wish we were like everyone else and just broke canon whenever we could.

Getting back to the point however, this is just the dumbest thing you have ever conceived, MJ, and I'm dead serious when I say that. YOU, our FOUNDER, want to just go "the hell with it?" and throw away 5 going on 6 years of hard work in establishing the wiki as it is now and keeping our rules intact, just because YOU think this is a good idea? I'm starting to clearly understand the same feelings 1NF3RNO had when he had to talk you out of that whole double Devil Fruit power thing involving the Ichi Ichi no Mi. I'm not ENTIRELY sure what Ferno felt at the time, but if it was disappointment in seeing our own ultimate authority figure not acting responsible and just blatantly going against our own rules as if you were some ignorant new user here, then that would be what I'm feeling as well right now. You have seriously gotten under my skin right now, Marcus, and you're going to lose whatever respect I had for you if this goes through. I know you hardly ever take things seriously, but I highly suggest you take my feedback as seriously as a heart attack right now, because I'm also quite serious about the consequences and foolishness of this whole thing you're proposing.

Not only are you undermining everything we've worked so hard to uphold, as well as essentially selling out what made this wiki special at first just because you want to do whatever the heck pops into your head, but you've also gone and forgot we have a WHOLE SISTER WIKI that can function as your proposal and MORE. You want people to have more freedom to do what they want? That's fine, I'm all for that. But direct them to Sea of Fools instead of twisting apart THIS wiki instead. Not only would this proposal's approval and legitimization show how irresponsible you're behaving, but it'd also show how ignorant you're acting too. I don't mean to throw around insults just because I'm annoyed with you, but rather I'm calling things as I see them. To turn this place into a Sea of Fools 2.0 would make Sea of Fools itself rather redundant and nearly unnecessary, and that also quite frankly annoys me too.

...In fact, I'm so utterly driven up a wall now that I can't remember every little thing I wanted to address with you, so I'll leave things as they are for now. Lastly, I know you had no intention of upsetting people or making them feel as if they should leave the wiki because of this, but that's essentially what you've done with me right now. I have quite seriously been contemplating leaving this wiki for roughly 1 or 2 years now because I was growing fed up with our community. Certain select few people I considered my friends have started to steadily wear on my nerves in a VERY frustrating way, and it's made me consider leaving this place for good. After all, I only stuck around because I love the community, not because I love writing or making fanon. But if the community is no longer the enjoyable place I once loved, then why stay? However, I dug down deep and stayed here anyway in the hopes things would get better and we could all get along and have fun like we did before.

But this... this is now the very definitive straw that breaks the camel's back. If you and any of your supporters feel we should just sell out despite my reasoning for why we shouldn't, then I've officially lost all interest in being a part of this wiki anymore. This won't be the same wiki I first joined in 2011, and neither will it be the FIRST wiki I ever joined either. Therefore, with the community starting to change for the worse in my eyes, and the wiki being poorly managed by someone who really should know better, I don't think I can stand to be here anymore. I may as well pack up and move to Sea of Fools and show how someone should manage a wiki.

Now, I have said my piece. And let all the complaints and "this is why you're wrong" and "let me throw BS facts at you" comments begin.