Talk:Wikia Move/Community poll

Time for a community poll
This page is large and difficult to navigate. Let us take a page out of Wikipedia's book and run a community RFC. Everyone is invited to comment- even those of you who have either written off the wiki or are waiting for the issue to blow over. It is probably too little too late, but let us at least attempt to come to a concensus opinion.

BftP 19:10, 14 September 2007 (CDT)


 * Kinda added a bit to it... The Imperialist
 * A poll is meaningless and a waste of time. The questions raised cannot be resolved with a poll. --24.22.225.85 19:39, 14 September 2007 (CDT)
 * I feel its more intended to be used to find out everyone's view on everything than to get everything resolved. But hey, thats my opinion ;) The Imperialist 19:41, 14 September 2007 (CDT)
 * So in other words, it's a place for everyone to repeat what has already been said, effectively doubling the length of an already lengthy page. --24.22.225.85 19:42, 14 September 2007 (CDT)
 * Because putting one thing on another page causes the others to grow, right? The poll its self is meant to put everyone opinion on a simple page, and to see who agrees with said "idea". Nobody says they have to talk in the below space, its just provided if there's questions about the poll and why they voted for said thing. The Imperialist 19:45, 14 September 2007 (CDT)

Shouldn't the poll be on article page and this stuff here on that discussion page? This section will just crowd up a already crowded page. --Alari 19:50, 14 September 2007 (CDT)
 * I'll move it ;) The Imperialist

Moving the entire advertisement here and leaving just "moved to blah blah" almost guarantees negligible partition, making the whole exercise even more futile than it anyway was. But whatever. I find that I am caring about this whole wikia thing less and less with each passing second. BftP 20:08, 14 September 2007 (CDT)


 * There's no need to clutter up and already excessively cluttered page though. The Imperialist

Discussion for Part 1
Does not classify whether commercial to raise money for server upkeep and maintenance or monetary gain of a person/group.--Alari 19:48, 14 September 2007 (CDT)
 * I'll add "for the benefit of the server host." Feel free to reword it ;) The Imperialist
 * I think there should be 2 sections, one asking if it is ok to make a profit and another for if it is ok to use adds and the like for server costs.--Alari 19:52, 14 September 2007 (CDT)
 * Feel free to add that in. I've moved the page, so it's no cluttering anything up The Imperialist

Absurdity of a poll
Fist off, what's the point? Votes can be manipulated, and don't be fooled by the touchy-feely "poll" name on this, it is a vote. On Wikipedia straw polls are used for the admins to consider when taking action. Who is supposed to take action from this? It's non-actionable and accomplishes nothing, other than splintering the discussions onto yet another page rather than keeping then centralized. Then there's the problems with the proposed poll options. Questions can be leading, and these certainly are, biased towards an intended answer. Also, they leave out a great deal. For instance, the comment about Gravewit being able to recoup losses. Great, no problem, except wait a minute, what about everyone else who contributed cash, or contributed technical services for server maintenance which would have cost money to have done professionally, or contributed the guildwiki.org URL under which this site worked for most of its life before Gravewit changed to the gamewikis.org domain? --24.22.225.85 20:53, 14 September 2007 (CDT)


 * While votes can be manipulated, pages have histories for a reason; anyone can check each edit and see if someone edits a vote, the same way I could check every contribution you've made to the wiki, and even use your IP to check your edits on just about any other site as well. No matter what, this isn't a "majority wins" poll; it's a way to find out, more or less, what people's take on the situation is. If the question doesn't apply to you, you don't vote. If there's a question you believe needs to be answered, it can be created, much the same way this poll was. --[[image:GEO-logo.png]] Ĵĩôřũĵĩ Đēŗāķō.> .cнаt^  21:16, 14 September 2007 (CDT)


 * Let me get this straight, you're complaining that discussion has moved to another page so you create a pointless statement containing nothing not already said?--Alari 21:19, 14 September 2007 (CDT)
 * No, I'm complaining that the vote was created in the first place. Sad that Tanaric gave up his admin abilities, he would've squashed it outright. The results are representative of the community, they're representative of the subset that patrol recent edits, actually followed the link to this page, and who were still misled enough to think that voting on it had some sort of meaning in any way on the issues or the discussions.
 * And the vote manipulation comment had nothing to do with editing other people's votes. I could get a dozen or more IPs and create accounts for each within the next hour, stuffing the ballot box. --24.22.225.85 21:44, 14 September 2007 (CDT)

No offense to those of you who drafted this to give users a clear, concise way to express their views on the situation, but what does it matter? This is a not a question of opinion. No matter how you feel about the move or what Gravewit is entitled to, the issue here is a breach of license. That's a matter of legality, not popular opinion, and no matter how many people feel that Gravewit deserves any remuneration for his 'work' here at the wiki or not, the legal obligations to the license do not change. - Krowman (talk • contribs)  00:19, 15 September 2007 (CDT)