User blog comment:LongLiveLion/Leaving, need to get away!/@comment-32154022-20130425131537/@comment-5931267-20130425212225

I'm really in the same boat with OHF on this. The community is probably the best part of our little wiki! We're a tight knit community and most of us generally get along just fine. Of course there's the occasional argument or bad mouthing but we all usually get over it fairly quickly. But being new is always a bit of a challenge, even here on one of the most wonderful wikis out there. I mean when I was new *has only been here for four months :D* I was really nervous and kinda scared that I'd accidentally offend some one or do some other stupid thing to get an instantly bad rep. I was lucky enough to get noticed and accepted really quickly by y'all, it also helped that my personality and interests matched a lot of other peoples. Some new people don't have the good fortune I did and have not been able to fit in so well.

Mika (my apologies if this sounds even slightly offensive to anyone) was an example of someone trying really hard to fit in, and in their efforts have come across as slightly annoying (not my opinion). When Mika was Ottocrap she really did try hard to fit in with the rest of us... but many of us either ignored her or came across as rude  towards her. SInce she wasn't getting noticed Mika decided to do bigger and bolder things which ended up earning her a slightly bad rep. Tbh though this type of thing is natural for humans (ESPECIALLY TEENS) to do, if we aren't noticed then we strike out and try to grab attention in any way we can... even if it ends up being negative (not reffering to Mika in this sentence, reffering to humans in general). It happens everyday and all of us have done this type of thing at least once.

I guess what I'm saying is that we can't truly blame the community here on the wiki, in this instence we really have human nature to blame. This wiki is filled to the brim with some of the nicest people I've ever had the pleasure of chatting online with! There are always improvements that can be made in how we handle a certain situation, such as having a new user. In this case though there really wasn't any one problem to be ammended and we can't put the blame on any one thing. I know it kinda seems like I'm just rambling, but all of this is what I felt I should say.