Hello everyone, Crim here!
As you might be aware, our increasing popularity brought many new users in the recent months, which mean, more pages, and more threads. So many more things to check, Our moderator team do our best to manage everything, but there are simply too many to do, and so little time in our life.
This is why, I sincerely believe that deleting pages was not the sole solution in improving the wiki, but also updating our rules and guidelines. If we only kick someone each time they do something bad, they might not learn anything. This is why, our rules and guidelines need to explain to every newbies on what are okay and not okay. This is not only about "how to create pages" but how to actually make good pages. We already have many guides here, but we need a guide to specifically avoid cliche, generic pitfalls that would lead to deletion. I will try to create the guide, but in the end, it's pointless if no one read our guides, so...
Here are my proposal to solve the problem; Revamping our front page.
Our front page also to make sure to tell them to read our rules and guides page before submitting anything.
Our front page need to remind everyone that the Backrooms is a fiction, so people should not pretend this is real, and they should not roleplay outside of the roleplay category.
Our front page need to include a proper introduction to the wiki as a collaborative project, and not a place for people to just put whatever they want here. Also tell them that we delete pages that do not pass our quality standard, including pages that are generic, messy, or just bad in general. If they want to do whatever they want, tell them to do it on the freewriting instead.
With these three points alone, we can already filter so much baddies, because we force them to read the "you gotta be 13 years old to be here" rule on the rules page, and we also discourage roleplaying. We also warn them that we delete pages that do not pass our standard, and if they don't like that, then they can go to the freewriting anyway.
Sounds good? Any thoughts?
