User blog:Drew1200/In all Seriousness...

For years this wiki has struggled with drama. People seem to think that the entire wiki is very dramatic. In a way, it's true. Often times it's different users, but there's always one or two people being dramatic about something. The problem I see with this, is that rather than just letting their drama die off, people generalize it into the entire wiki. If you see a really dramatic blog, instead of just commenting about how dramatic the universe is, if you just ignore it, it will go away.

When users constantly feed the dramatic users, they're essentially getting what they want. They have reason to continue being dramatic. If the drama is just ignored, the users won't have any reason to be dramatic.

It is just those couple unnamed users who start the drama, but it is fed by the entire community. Every blog you comment on saying "so tired of the drama", is just creating more drama. All wikis have dramatic users, dramatic blogs, and dramatic moments on chat. However, those wikis don't feed the drama, they just ignore it. Our wiki may have more dramatic users, but if we were to treat it the same way it's normally treated, it wouldn't seem so bad.

To be perfectly honest, I'm not tired of the dramatic blogs. I'm tired of the dramatic comments. A blog can easily die, but flame wars are hard to stop. Even if it's not that extreme, many of our blogs have just become battle grounds for dramatic arguments. Normally, there are several users involved who are not typically dramatic. But by commenting on that thread, they are feeding the drama, and allowing it to continue.

Let's just stop calling everything drama, and see what happens.