Usuario discusión:SimonEwok

Invitation to Discord

Hi SimonEwok!

I hope you are doing well! Thank you for your help so far. This is an extremely busy month with a Stormlight novella and a Stormlight novel! I just want to let you know that the staff has seen your messages on various talk pages. We're pretty focused on managing the hordes of new content and new editors, so it might take us a while to get through your talk page messages. At this point, it does seem prudent to focus more on the new articles than wider structural changes or new sections for things. There will be soooo much work to do Tuesday! In the meantime, if you'd like to discuss some of these things on our Coppermind Editors Discord, we'd love to see you! We've found Coppermind editing has been so much easier with our Discord server. It seems you are a Wikipedia editor, but culturally, we are a pretty small community with a coordinated vision and single set of staff members. We do tend to use Discord more for editing discussion. So let's touch base there if you'd like! Otherwise we'll get back to you on the talk pages at another point. -- Chaos2651 (talk) 06:13, 12 November 2020 (UTC)

Wait, so sometime after this message was written you also demoted me from being an editor? What was my "offense"? That frankly feels a little passive-aggressive. I was in the middle of a badly-needed page about the Rosharan calendar, but now that I can't even create it and am sensing some hostility, I don't really see any reason to try to finish. At this point, I guess I might just try to search for a different Cosmere website to work on. I would've preferred to stick with this wiki - the name is quite inspired, options are few, and this one has the most momentum - but presently I think this particular community is too centralized, dogmatic, reactionary, and like you said, cliquey, for a newcomer like me to feel welcome or to have any desire to contribute further.

And regarding priorities, postponing needed structural fixes goes against the cost of defects principle, where the longer you wait, the more costly the solution ends up being. This week would've been a great time to make upgrades before the flood of information and interest for Rhythm of War. For instance, on the statistics pages, there's a fair amount of work involved in getting each line updated as is, but with just a few simple changes it could've been made so that the process to update it when a book comes out would've been a breeze. It's a moot point now that I'm leaving the wiki, but that was all my response was going to be about before I noticed that my user rights were also being restricted for some reason. SimonEwok (talk) 09:42, 12 November 2020 (UTC)