User blog:The RPG Gamer/The truth about Mariowiki

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So, in my previous discussion about the wiki on another wiki, users (particually Unnamedgoon) mocked me and ridiculed me saying that the admins would clearly know better than I. Well that was the last straw, I've decided to double down and prove that I was right all along...

Okay so, the truth about Mariowiki (just to be clear we're talking about Super Mario Wiki (www.mariowiki.com)), one of the most unfair rigged wikis wikis. A wiki I completely wasted my life on. It's been exactly a year since I quit on them after the last ban. On the surface Mariowiki appears to be a generic site about Mario but upon close examination there's a lot more to this site than meets the eye. Upon creating an account, you are in for a nasty surprise so that's why I am here to expose the dark secrets of that so-called site and I will be doing this in 10 points. After this, you will learn a valuable lesson and that is to never judge a book by it's cover. Like the site may seem friendly on the outside but on the inside it is run by cold heartless monsters.

Just to be clear it's not the site I don't like I love the site but the same can't be said for it's community.

Reasons
1. The rules on the wiki are so damn strict and many of the rules are very ridiculous and dumb. : Okay so the rules are super dumb yes it has the usual no spamming or vandalism rule which is completely acceptable but it has even more dumb rules. Like you can't make too many edits to one page in a short period of time, you have to mark minor edits as minor, you can't make major changes to pages without approval, and much more. There is just way too many rules and the list just goes on. They also limit the amount of fanmade/non-Mario related images you can have but there's many more too numerous to be listed here. They also make it pretty much impossible to become an admin on that wiki. There is no system where you can nominate yourself and people vote. Apparently, if you do that people on the wiki (like admins) will get suspicious (why? what are you hiding)? So you just have to wait and they almost never come around.

2. It is so easy to get blocked on there, I've been blocked too many times some of which weren't even my fault and others were for such stupid reasons. Instead of trying to reason with the user, they just immediately consider him/her a threat to the wiki and block them. : Many of the reasons I was blocked for were either 1. not my fault or 2. stupid reasons. One ban was for edit warring with vandals which was I was reverting their edit (which is what you're supposed to do) they blocked me for that, so in other words they blocked me just for solely doing the right thing, I was also banned for violations of the policies which I barely did, I only just helped someone with something that day and they banned me that night. That was exactly a year ago (from me writing this) and is when I decided I had enough and decided to move on from that site after 4 unjustly. I thought to myself, "Meh they clearly don't want me, they were trying to get rid of me this whole time what's the point in even staying around. I think it's best if I leave permanently which I did."

3. Every time I try to make the wiki a safer place for kids and/or more understandable, they use their strict power to shut down my ideas. : I tried to help the wiki by censoring swear words on a page (which they should be the last to add swear words) and the edits were reverted, another one was I made a voting system to revive image maps and it failed as many people disliked the idea even the admins who used their strict powers in it to shut down my idea. So I cancelled the system before the deadline. In fact while I've been gone, they changed their representative logo with Mario and some gameplay to a logo with just a mushroom and the logo. I think the bureaucrat who's obsessed with Super C or something like that changed it because he think's Mario is just Mushrooms only. NO, there's more to Mario than just Mushrooms and stuff.

4. I hate it when I put in the time to make new pages with full info on missed characters just so they get deleted overnight and what's more is that some very dumb users just enjoy removing valuable valid trivia for no damn reason. : This part makes me angry as it is one of the worst offenders. I have put in the time to make pages on the wiki on characters or things that have none like the Grates from SMG2, the Blooper from PMTTYD (as it's clearly different from your average everyday Blooper), and more. They said I was making major changes without approval or something like that which I was doing the most harmless and most beneficial thing for the wiki, helping it by adding new pages. To add more insult to injury, they did it overnight while I was asleep. I could've been doing something else with my life but I decided to help the wiki and they did not accept it. They also enjoyed removing trivia from pages just because they though it was right. There were several instances like on Kersti's page it stated numbers of good trivia and they just removed nearly the whole section just because they though it was unnecessary when all info is necessary. Mario fans look up to your site, you should be the last to pull this off. I tried reverting most if not all back but some were re-removed by a those cruel low-lifes who just spend their lives monitoring a website. While I sometimes do this, I also do many more things with my life and let's just say it's probably more exciting than their's. It also seems as though they've gotten a massive pleasure out of reverting my particular edits while I've been gone as they most definitely despise me. They also don't like any form of speculation which there's nothing wrong with a little speculation. It's not false information it's saying it could happen NOT it is going to happen. They want everything for new games sourced and there to be no speculation. Mario Wikia treats Mariowiki as a reliable source but don't you know they get their sources from other places too so they could be wrong in some places. I speculate all the time. They remove a lot of info in fact, many users' edits consisted of red numbers in their edits (which means they removed content from the article). I did this for sometime but realised they were being stupid before long and tried to challenge them on this. Also there is a dumb Trivia template for if there's too much Trivia on an article which isn't necessary in the slightest. One time me and another user fixed some spelling and grammar errors on a Help page and it got reverted by some jerk who said that only admins should edit this and demanded it be protected in the summary. The admins also like to delete unused images despite the fact that some people would want to use them and they limit the amount of images you can keep for yourself too. I also encountered several similar users outside that wiki but their edits were without problems.

5. Some users try to act like they have as high authority as the admins and try to enforce some even dumber made up rules (telling you that something you did is wrong despite it not being listed anywhere in the rules pages) to threaten and mislead you. : There are several times where users on the wiki have made it out like there's way more rules than there really are despite what they said not being mentioned anywhere in the massive rules page. Like no uploading low-quality images. There was this image-obsessed user who was obsessed with the quality of images on the wiki and stated that you have to use an emulator to upload images (which I can't get due to the process). His rule wasn't mentioned anywhere. I was one of the few (if not the only) people attacked for making these types of images when other users did it to a larger degree. Another thing I was attacked for is talking to old messages. I got in trouble off 1 user for that who was just a regular user. They just try to intimidate you but thankfully I left and don't have to put up with those shenanigans.

6. They don't like any form of funny stuff or jokes or anything like that they just treat the wiki like a company where you have to be serious in fact their sense of humour is so dry that the website's background is a bland full white. : Ever wondered why Mariowiki's background has no detail to it and has just a bland white background. Well wonder no more. There was once a time where the site had a background of some Partner's In time gameplay (back on September of 2015) but they changed it back about a day later. They never decorate the site for seasons or events or holidays. Not even Christmas. They don't allow any jokes on the site or funny blogs (or blogs altogether) or anything like that. I told some funny jokes and also replied to old messages (when I see other people doing it and having nothing happen to them) and got in trouble for it. They need to understand that this is not a company it's a website and we don't have to be serious. You should let users have their fun admins normal conversations go off topic too, the users aren't abusing anyone (except maybe you since you feel so disrupted about all this). They also say that comments sections MUST be related to improving the article and nothing else (which other wikis (mainly fairer ones don't have as a rule). They also say that if you want to talk about that stuff, go to the forums. Which doesn't even look like part of the site. I don't care what the forum is for okay, it's not like when I go to hang out with my friends, I only have fun in one spot and everywhere else I just talk like a robot to solve issues in a heartbeat. I would probably do a lot better of a job at running that site than they would because I am actually a lot more friendlier and I would be much more tolerant and not so picky about the little things. Seriously this wiki is meant to be fun and groovy. It's those admins' fault. They've made us into a pyramid

7. Users on that wiki get a big thanks for stopping vandalism and making good edits as for me, I got no thanks and even a block one time. : Okay so this point I have to point out, it's just funny how some users who work their darnest to stop vandalism (like this one user who was just constantly thanked for doing so he was like the admins' pet (y'know like teacher's pet)). Other users were thanked too. But me, I was helping the site too and they don't give a damn about my hard work and just look right past it. Let's just say this, I used the noticeboard for trolls and the same user did too. Everytime admins cleared the noticeboard, they thanked that other user and as for me, they rollback my edit with that rollback summary (translation: Don't bother idiot we just appreciate this user's hard work not yours so give up dumbo.). As mentioned above, they even blocked me one time for this. The admins usually thank users for making good edits on their Message Wall (or talk page rather as they don't like that stuff). They never did that to me despite the fact that I work my butt off to do good edits and stuff and they just look right past it. They basically play God deciding who stays and who get's blocked. It's almost like I am nothing more than a punching bag to them and I had it with being treated like that so that's why I left to here and people are a lot fairer here. Also a nitpick about the admins, they are just so unfair. They can practically get away with everything. They have no rules at all and they can control literally everyone as mindless drones.

8. Many messages I sent to certain users or admins were all ignored I felt like I was talking to myself, many of the users on there were very rude and enjoyed ganging up on me especially in those dumb voting polls they don't want you splitting two pages without making a voting poll for it for very stupid messed up reasons and even one of the unfeature ones, when I stated why it should stay they thought it wasn't good enough and 6 users all ganged up against me to shut down my idea and remove my vote I felt majorly bullied. : I have sent several messages to several (active) users and about 50% of them were ignored like they don't exist. It's almost like as if I was one of the guardians in Rise of the Guardians. Even for important wiki-related matters like blocking a troll or something similar, they just pretended they never got a message which is super rude, what's worse is sometimes not only don't they respond but never get around to what I told them to do. I already covered that voting system thing earlier but it goes even further as they will sometimes attach it to your rule-braking history they undo your changes as well and delete said pages. A user (who bases his whole life around unfeaturing pages) also wanted to unfeature a page and I wanted it to stay featured I voted for keeping it and the user who started the whole poll didn't approve of my reasoning (for some reason they think all reasons should be in super, perfect 100%, massive detail). This particular user didn't want any opposes despite the fact that the supporters look like they'd win. He then put my vote in the petition to remove votes and before I knew it, 5 other users came in and formed some sort of gang against me and my vote and made me feel super vulnerable. They clearly have a severe lack of empathy.

9. The admins on that wiki just always have to hold a grudge over something bad that you did regardless to how long ago it was. : The admins on the wiki are pretty unwilling to forgive any past mistakes you may've done. They just hold a grudge and attach your past blocks to a record. And after like 3-4 bans you ban is infinite. They did the same to Fawfulthegreat64 on the forums. The other strikes were like years old and weren't even the same offense. The third ban wasn't his fault all he said was was the Mario RPG Characters should appear in Mario Kart before non-Mario characters and then the entire forum just started jumping on him telling him that his opinion was wrong. After responding a few times, he tried to do it again but he got an error saying he was banned. Yep a ban over something that he didn't even start. They were just so rude to him and refused to revoke the ban. They did similar stuff to me too. When a few users tried to object to my bans, the admin (usually the same one) got all defensive and hostile about it and yeah.

10. The admins on the wiki hate Nora Thunderman (Addison Riecke) and are obsessed with order. : This part also goes to show that they can't respect opinions. I just stated I liked certain stuff (like Nora Thunderman) and they pounced me saying that said stuff was bad and stuff on the forums. Also, they just worry about the small things and just want everything on the site straight and for there to be nothing funny or cool or anything like that.

Conclusion
Overall this is a very bad site and I don't recommend it to anybody. Go on there if you need to get information or cool photos but if I can give you any point of advice, Don't ever create an account on there unless you like living by some dumb rules with no logic whatsoever you can do it if you want to but don't say I didn't warn you...