Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29521428-20180513212720/@comment-17698791-20180514150949

ChocolateElemental wrote: TheTwinkleBeast wrote: I feel you're taking this personal. I feel like you're only saying this because your power was almost removed. I don't think this wiki will be going downhill just because they merge or remove super similiar Meta/Omni/Absolute, and Transcendent Powers. It's not an abuse of power to remove certain powers, and not to ask users. If that's so, people could make absolutely any power, no matter how trollish it is and the admins can't do nothing but ask the person, and the person would say no and they can't do nothing about it.

As you said there are rules, and this wiki has certain rules, that it goes by. Not all wikis are the same. There should be no reason why an admin has to have permission, or any reason needs to look for permission to delete a page, they should only have a reason why they deleted a page. For example, if the page is very similar to another like the Meta/Omni/Absolute/Transcendent Powers rule.

I like the mechanic of Admin Stripping when most users are just as bad as supposed admins who "abuse" their powers. As if say you wouldn't remove the adminship of one of them because they deleted one of your powers, or one of the myriads of trolls, and lets not forget the users who are just born salty when they don't get their way.

I highly doubt the wiki will be going downhill anytime, and I highly doubt this one little change is gonna break the camels back. Powers come and powers go. This is my opinion and mines alone, I don't speak for the admins. To a degree I disagree with you, but at the same time I do agree with what you've said at the same time. While I understand your point of view, I'm not necessarily taking this personal, I'm just trying to do the right thing for the sake of other certain people on the site being disappointed and/or angered that their powers have been erased, even me also. I have to admit though, the Transcendent Poltergeist Physiology can be the reason why I've launched this discussion, but that's not the main reason. It's because of a certain category that has been made.

Again, I don't mind if the housekept articles are merged, as long as the administrators ask the creators of the various power articles beforehand. While I understand the admins are just doing their job, my fact still stands, they still have to follow their own code of laws. Still, the administration staff has to keep in mind that they have to ask permission and wait for a go ahead from the power creators, otherwise they'll may get some backlash from the ones not in charge of this wiki. I will not allow that. There's always a better option apart from removing articles without a lesser user's say so. There's nothing wrong with similarity at all, as long as there's some differences to keep them from being repetitve. And that's the exact definition of similarity.

And as for your compliment for the admin stripping mechanic itself, I thank you, I really do. I mean the category isn't exactly wrong. Alot of the powers on there are just mirrors of other powers, or just a combination of some of them. Those powers almost always have there bases covered for some reason, as if they could maniuplate everything, or destroy anything. There's over 9000 powers on this wiki, and I'm sure there are powers that fit one of each of those requirements on the category, but those Almighty powers are more visible.

Then we have this, the Admins don't under any circumstances have to ask your permission on anything. You (not you but the user) put your power in a public wiki. All they have to do is give a reason for removing it. Admins always get backlash for removing pages, regardless. That's like saying a user has to ask permission from another to edit the power, once you put it out there, it belongs to the public, no permission is required. But, you see, it works different on other wikias like Roleplaying ones, where you have to ask permission of users to edit certain things, because it's their Wiki rule. There is no rule like that on here.

By you saying that, that means I could make almost the exact power but just change the structure and some words. True there is nothing wrong with simularity, but it's clear the admins don't wanna keep seeing the same similar pages popup every few days. Especially when the most similar are Godlyish powers. It becomes very saturated.