User blog:Alemas2005/What the hell is going on here?

This is a rant at the current general situation of the Wiki...

What the hell is going on... Since a few months, the Wiki has become... a far less enjoyable place to be in, and a sadder one as well. In 5 months, we've had two declarations of suicide (one survived, the other... we don't know yet), we discovered sexual harassment here, we've had retirement blogs of a way more hostile nature than usual, way more arguing across the Wiki than ever before, votes to unblock words have become proper soap operas of discussion (which end up nowhere anyway, so aren't strictly needed), admin chat discussions on bad behaviour/bans/blocks have increased dramatically...

I mean... do people saying that this place is obnoxious actually have a point now? If I couldn't see it earlier, I'm seeing it now more than ever before. My God, what has happened? It wasn't like this one or two years ago. We could all get along with each other pretty easily, everything seemed rosy, and our biggest problem was Nigma's dupes and the occasional troll. But honestly, if we had to put this Wiki under some curse for whatever reason, I'd rather have his dupes than all the strife, grievance, and obnoxiousness we have now. At least we could all laugh at them! Something which we can't do with the problems we have now.

I find this all quite... dispiriting. Back in December, I asked the people "Is the Wiki dying?. But that was because of a lack of people in chat, blog comments, and edits. Now we have a healthy number of active people again, but now I must ask myself... not "Is the Wiki dying due to inactivity?", but "Is the Wiki dying... due to us?".

As I've already said, this blog is just a rant. Felt like I should put down my thoughts on the matter on something... you may or may not feel like the same way, it doesn't really matter. Just keep the comments civil.