Forum:Atmosphere

Just thought I'd take a moment to express appreciation for the laid-back atmosphere we have here. I was watching Star Trek earlier and I Googled a character I didn't remember. The first hit was for that big Star Trek wiki and I read the article and made a comment (signed with my IP address) on the Talk page about what a ripoff the character was of an earlier character. (For the record it was from some episode where a Ferengi was trying to fool Picard into believing he had a son. It works for a while, and Picard and his not-son have an exchange that was nearly identical to the one Kirk had with his son in Wrath of Khan.)

Then one of our counterparts bitches about how the talk pages need to be reserved for suggestions for improving articles, not "irrelevant" opinions. I told him to get over himself and he spat some regulation at me and then I said that all those rules are too stifling and I was leaving. He took a Parthian shot about how he didn't want to lose a contributor but how talk pages needed to be kept clear or encyclopedic-ness would become impossible, yakkity-yak.

I can understand keeping anons on a short leash concerning editing articles; we do that here, and with very good reason. But talk pages? For fuck's sake.

I suspect we're fairly unique in encouraging free and open discussion, actually. Seems to me I remember hearing other people having had similar instances on this, that, and the other wiki site. Turtle Fan 22:28, February 20, 2010 (UTC)