User blog comment:VladsNewAccount/Content Cop - Batran/@comment-5590986-20171012161737/@comment-26247925-20171012175044

The differences between Google Plus and the Wikia.
 * 1) Google Plus has a lot younger people on it, and they are a lot cringier. Imagine Minnesotan, then imagine he has kids with Fedex, then multiply those kids by 1500 and you get the TMC.
 * 2) Their administration is horrifically corrupt. They created a junta, they regulated what kind of art you could put on there, they abused members, they regularly got into massive drama conflicts with other communities, they actively sought to undermine other communities, all they cared about were the number of members coming in, they deleted controversial posts that went against their administration, etc. Whereas on the Wikia, we don't go around deleting content we don't like for no good reason other than corrupt ones.
 * 3) There's simply more to do on the Wikia. Google Plus is for showing off content. That's literally all they use it for, and it's all it can be used for. Games don't really work on there. Contests sort of work on there.
 * 4) Who says the TMC isn't dying? Due to the massive corruption allegations, their toxic membership, declining activity, all after a purge of the staff, they're being forced to move to a new community. That doesn't seem like it's not dying to me. Whereas the Wikia is doing quite well right now, regardless of the decline it was facing.

What I'm trying to get at is that you can't compare two completely different platforms in order to prove your point, because it proves nothing. Also, you seem very fixated on the past, and on apocalyptic rhetoric. The usual "the Wikia is dying, why are people still here, the Wikia will be inactive, etc". In my opinion, this rhetoric is fine, but when you do nothing to help, it undermines your arguments. If you think the Wikia is dying, and you have no way of helping it, what's the point of being here? Why are we all here? Why is there a thriving Discord server, all these map games, these blog posts, all of this? Why is this here? What's the point, if the Wikia is dying?

Maybe we should be more positive, is what Batran and I are saying. Positive rhetoric leads to positive outcomes, and seeing the negative side of things all the time is not really good for the Wikia. And yes, seeing the positive side of things all the time isn't good either. I do acknowledge this. But if we're always trying to shove the death of the Wikia in people's faces, then we would get nowhere. In fact, we would go backwards.

This is specifically seen with the leaving blogs. As people wrote leaving blogs, it discouraged other people to continue to edit here. At one point, we had a number of people leaving at around the same time due to this. When you see a leaving blog, you think "huh, all these people who used to edit the Wikia regularly are leaving, and the only people left are the new people. Why should I stay here?" Obviously, you can see that this is a negative feedback loop which results in more and more people leaving the Wikia until the Wikia becomes inactive. This is why we banned them, of course.

Sorry for the big block of text, but I had to get the message across. Negative rhetoric isn't good, and spreading apocalyptic messages across the Wikia could, even if the Wikia wasn't dying, throw it into inactivity.

NOTE: As to the question about what to add to the Wikia, I have long been a proponent of the Wikia being used what it was made for - storing information. The information we are supposed to specialize in is information about mapping series. For example, look at this page Eradiate made on his AFOE. It's pages like this which add to the Wikia.