User blog comment:HerrMana/I'm not an admin, but... Proposal?/@comment-3530543-20140305163108

I completely support the idea of this blog. I can bear with people relegating stories & writing to the background of the community because no one is forced to be more or less interested in this or that, but having the drama from fanfiction-unrelated business be brought over here is where I draw the line.

There is only one problem, and that's in practice -- should we take the RPs and push them somewhere else, that could weaken our community as it is, because, let's be honest, most of our older users have all but lost interest in fanfiction by now. In a way, the RPs/games are what's keeping this whole community together. Just take a look at Wiki Activity -- I'd say 70% of fanfiction-related activity comes from newer users. And while it is by no means a bad thing that most people here have a safe backup plan to remain a working wiki-family in case everybody ends up dropping fanfiction altogether, that's also kind of a problem for the minority of users who have no interest in joining RPs, such as yours truly.

If another wiki specifically for RPs and all that were to be created, what would probably happen would be that a great deal of this wiki's established community (way to use the word "community" three times in a couple of paragraphs) would gradually migrate there, and then gradually stay there and stop coming here at all. And while that may, in a weird sense, be a good thing in that it would show who among us are actually interested in writing stories and who are only around because they have friends here, it would also be kind of a bummer for people who still like writing TD fanfiction and like talking to people about that.

Following that, two things could happen: either most of the remaining writers already rooted here would probably leave this wiki for FF.net (which is the grim scenario), or the younger users would (which they will anyway) solidify their place here and form a newer, refreshed community along with the few older users who remain. And while neither possibility is immediately bad -- everybody would survive and be happy one way or another -- personally I really, really, really would like you guys to stick around, because, honestly, this community is largely responsible for my insistence on writing Total Drama fanfiction. You're practically my second family. (Okay, maybe my third family because I've got some friends IRL.) So maybe sustaining a community around something they're no longer interested in is too much to ask of people, but, um, I don't know. Maybe just try to keep up the interest in writing? Even if it's, like, just a very minor hobby? I don't know. I'm probably not being rational anymore.

The point of all this is, I'm all for the new wiki for RPs in concept (though, um, isn't that what Camps Wiki more-or-less is? Uninitiated user talking), but I'm worried that it could take everybody away from here. And I'm aware of how selfish that is, but it's how I feel, so I'm just saying it now for the heck of it. What you guys make of that sentiment is not in my power.