Board Thread:Policies/@comment-10473115-20150611004425/@comment-61022-20150701185456

Actually yes, my opinion is of more value to you people who have not been around as long, especially in my capacity of an admin. Is it infallible? No. But I am speaking from far more experience than a lot of the rest of you, which despite the wounded egos by my apparent comments, makes it more valid. It's called seniority people, look it up.

But there is a reason why my opinions are more informed than the rest of you: it is because the rest of you guys have no concept of the back end of things. Namely, the website structure, how edits constantly affect the overall quality of the site, how they effect organization, and what admins have to deal with.

I have been around long enough to see that, in my opinion, both fan grids and alignments are of little value in the grander scheme of things. The constant edit wars are long, energy training, and waste resources of the site in terms of server storage and bandwidth (not a lot in individually, but consider that every edit and every change, even if it's to undo something already done, is logged and preserved on the site in perpetuity so all of these edit wars add up)

As Ed so gracefully pointed out there is a LOT of missing data on this website which people could be focusing their time and energy on updating instead of the more trivial data.

Fun Fact: There is a massive gap of Issue summary updates from 1939 to the last 10 years because people don't bother updating old comic summaries. A majority of our character profiles are missing heavy data because people have chosen to gloss over or become uninterested in older material (Something, I believe Commander Kazugeta was complaining about the OHOTMU also suffering from)

Well people, these things need to be updated.

Now I am a little more harshly spoken than the other admins, but in all honesty, if for whatever reasons (be they ethical, financial, or whatever) cannot do the necessary research to contribute to the many information gaps on this Wikia site, then maybe trying to be a contributor to the site is not something you should undertake. Power ratings, character stats, and all that over trivial stuff comes a dime a dozen. Anyone can do it, and the information can be found anywhere. In fact, that information is on Marvel's own official Wiki page on Marvel.com.

The reason why people come here, and choose to return here, is not because of your piddly updates of character stats, or alignments, they come here because we're slowly becoming the place where people can find out when specific events happened, what comics, how they tie into a characters chronology.

THAT is what people are looking for here. So for those of you who are arguing over the validity of alignment and power grids, I want to reiterate that that information can be found anywhere. In the grander scheme of things, to the people who actually contribute things that are substantial, the lot of you who want to fight to keep these things are not contributing anything of value to this site, other than endless debate and wasted time. I mean seriously, look how long this entire thread is and over something so trivial.

That's my final word on the subject. You guys can continue debating it further, I'm going to spend the rest of my afternoon doing something constructive.