User blog comment:Peter Mapping/Why is everybody leaving?/@comment-26272248-20150704004739/@comment-6812733-20150704020106

What can we do about it? Well we could start enforcing rules, making bunch more of them (I have some ideas already for new rules but I see no reason to implement them, I will tell you soon), we could start punishing people more severely, we could do bunch of stuff to get you guys to shape up or gtfo.

Well why haven't we? Because we aren't brutal assholes. The community has made itself clear that they want to remain free and fairly open. Yet you, the community, start whining about that exact same thing that you so demand when someone uses it in a way that isn't fine with you and we try to do something about it. Then we think "okay, people are complaining about these things, we have some ideas on how to solve them" and after that we think "let's hear the community's opinion". And what is that response? "NO YOU FASCISTCOMMUNISTCAPITALISTPROLETARIATTYRANT! YOU SHOULD BE REMOVED FROM THE WIKI! WE SHOULD BE THE RULERS OF THE WIKI! WE WOULD NEVER DO SUCH A THING AND MAGICALLY FIX EVERYTHING IN A SECOND!" So we listen to you and do nothing like you very kindly asked right there. And then the community goes silent for five seconds after which the community starts whining again. "Why didn't you do anything about these things we whined about? Wow you don't care at all about us and do nothing to make anything better."

An infinite loop. See the problem now? And even when people say "Ya I could live without that one freedom so the community can be made better", it turns out they can't after a week without that freedom since they didn't actually think it through and the whining intensifies.