User blog comment:Itachi4843/Is there a point to this wiki anymore?/@comment-1693968-20131030201133

In response to your questions about people editing, I don't think people's main motive for editing in the first place was to be helpful. I know mine isn't. I edit because I think it's fun, and it's cool to be able to try and keep things up to date, and to add as much info as I can. Of course my goal is to make it helpful, but even if it is helpful, I wouldn't do it if it was boring.

You do have some good points here, though. When the boards were updated, it did eliminate much of the need for this wiki. However, you're wrong to say that it's pointless. Sure, the LMBs can be better at providing current information, such as post count, activity, rank, likes, and all that stuff. But it stops there. They don't have any real information. There's no history, or no information about the actual person. If you get a new friend, and you want to learn more about him, you can come here to do that. You can find information about him from the old LMBs under his archive, or you can just read about more updated information. Some pages do only have post count and rank, but many of them have much more than that. Often, there's a huge text wall right there for you to read. Many of the pages can be very informative, and some even substantially helpful.

That's just covering the content side of the wiki. As you can see, it's mainly active as a community. Chat normally has over a dozen people in it, and our blogs and forums are filled with conversations and tongue smileys. People are actually having fun here, which gives the site a fantastic purpose to exist.