Thread:Sannse/@comment-4674838-20120131030049/@comment-1086824-20120201021745

Just thought I would leave my thoughts here: If I'm correct, Terraria was released in the middle of last year, which means that I have been using this wiki almost since Terraria was released. Now, if you were to look at my history, I haven't necessarily... "approved" of Wikia since they got rid of Monaco, but I've gotten over it. Ever since then, I try not to use any Wikia wiki unless I have to, and in the case of this wiki, I use it because it is more developed than the official Terraria wiki. I haven't played Terraria in about 2 weeks, but just today I got around 100 emails from Wikia due to some bug. I don't exactly remember how (I've been doing other things), but I discovered a forum post about this whole thing, and now I ended up here. However, enough of that.

Unless I missed something, there was never more than one video at a time on the home page of the wiki. Now, the front page of the wiki is nothing but videos. This is a huge turnoff for me; If I wanted to watch videos I would have gone to YouTube. I don't come to a wiki for videos. At best, videos should be an afterthought, a bonus, an extra, not the focus. In my opinion, this has led to very lazy editing behaviors, with a very large amount of articles that tell you nothing more than you could learn in-game. A great example, in my opinion, is the Mythril Hood article. This is what it looked like before it was edited (a very minor edit, at that): http://terraria.wikia.com/index.php?title=Mythril_Hood&oldid=213470&useskin=wikia By simply talking to the Guide, an in-game character, you can learn all of that.

In addition, Hero is taking advantage of the other admin's absence from the wiki, and is playing the whole situation in his favor to boost his reputation and feed his ego. http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:HeroGaming/2_sides_to_every_story.?useskin=wikia http://terraria.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:HeroGaming/The_community_has_voted.?useskin=wikia Posts such as these continue to persuade people that he has somehow thwarted a great evil from the wiki, and that he should be given more praise for the great acts that he has done. He actively monitors these posts and does not hesitate to reply to any opposing views left in the comments. "Our wiki has grown very large. I would like to think I have played a very big role in that by sending thousands of people here from youtube. I showed my stats and showed that the wiki was less than 10% of my traffic and that I help the wiki more than the wiki helps me. I helped push our wiki to the top spot on google by bringing in so many editors and I did it because I love the game and wanted to build a community." His job as a wiki administrator is to administrate, not advertise, and most certainly not create propaganda about himself.

I don't think I'm not doing a very good job at pushing my point across right now, so I I'm just going to come out and say that what I think is going on here is that he has let his fame and power over the videos get to him, and has banned these two administrators for attempting to circumvent his video monopoly. With the opposing administrators banned, he is actively making posts slandering the administrators (and in the process making himself look like he just saved the wiki) in order to cover up what is really going on. With no one with power on the wiki to oppose him, he is the only one left for people to believe and with the overwhelming positive responses he is getting such as "HOORAY FOR HERO HELPING THE WIKI!" "The people are all supporting you Hero! fight the good fight !" "HERO = Awesomeness, 'nuff said " ect., he is now feeling his ego inflated and is essentially declaring the wiki his own.