User blog comment:Mrdaimion/Serious Sam Issue 1 - Abortion/@comment-1874924-20120212032117

Here's another reason why we should be wary of blogging on divisive issues here:

Since I became an admin, I've been privy to the daily reports of how many views this wiki gets (although I'm not sure exactly what constitutes a "view"), how many edits people make, and how many people join (which may mean actual registrations or may include edits from new IP addresses). On most days, this wiki's view count is in the range of 2-5K. In the first three days after this blog appeared, the view count was 50-60K every day, and over 40K on the fourth day. On the fifth day (yesterday, as I write) the view count dropped to "only" 15K, which is still far above the normal level.

Despite the huge increase in views, editing and new user activity remained at normal levels, which are typically 200-500 edits and 0-3 "joinings" per day. This tells me that the vast majority of the extra views were probably by people who have no interest in the Total Drama series and looked in because the blog showed up on abortion-related searches. Although these people didn't cause any disruption this time, the danger remains. If we go blogging on sensitive political topics, we run the risk of attracting the wrong kind of attention and/or turning this wiki into something that it was never meant to be.