Board Thread:Wiki Improvements/@comment-4146635-20131207205009/@comment-4146635-20140102222427

Red Compassion, Red Love, Red Hate wrote:

Okay, well first of all we’ve had some transcripts for who knows how long, and not many people even go and edit them anyways (kudos to you DanTD). And also, is a few words are incorrect, that’s not necessarily “vandalism”. I go pages and I see spelling mistakes/word mistakes/grammar mistakes and who knows what else, and that’s not vandalism either. I mean, do you really think that some diabolical person will be like “Hahaha, I’m going to mess up the transcripts everyday so the whole wiki is screwed over!!!!” Yeah, no. SO it’s not going to be as often as you make it out to be. You're like, countering you're own argument. Exactly, not many people even go and edit them. So why have them when they're just gonna hang there the entire time? We can't just rely on DanTD and the few other users (who may not even exist) to finish transcripts. Red, did you read the solution I put? There shouldn't be any grammar mistakes once they're check over and if they're are, the user will have to message an admin. I don't think there are users who will make it a point to vandalize transcripts all the time BUT there are users who WILL vandalize them and they will pop up every now and then and it WILL be very hard to find those vandalized areas of a page due to the length of the page. I mean I have seen plenty of users change the smallest of things for a cheap laugh. "Austin, we need to write a song" can very easily be changed to "Austin, we need to write a thong" and it will go unnoticed.

Red Compassion, Red Love, Red Hate wrote:

Some pages haven’t been edited in who knows how long, or some of them have only like 5 edits. At least we have one person who edits it once in a while (thank you again, DanTD). And for the users who CAN’T access the episodes, isn’t that more of a reason to have them? And that makes it okay to have more pages that will rarely be edited? At least those pages have material on them and are mostly just information. Transcipts are different and they are the actual transcripts to the episode. We can't just leave those unfinished for a year. And honestly, we don't have many DanTD's. And as for accessing the episodes, I honestly feel like the reasons against transcripts overrule keeping them for users who can't access the episode. The episode is all over YouTube and reading it is not the same. I honestly, would love to have a poll and see how many users actually read transcripts.

Red Compassion, Red Love, Red Hate wrote: Also Matt, for the future: If you ask someone what their opinion is on whatever, I suggest you leave yours out. By giving your opinion and asking what other people think, it’s kind of like you asking them if you’re right or wrong, and by giving a negative/opposite opinion, it makes them seem as like they’re disagreeing with you and not your opinion (at least, that’s what I think). Opinions are opinions and they shouldn’t be looked at as agreeing with a PERSON, but how you specifically feel about a topic. Your first message asking for others opinions should be unbiased, or at least should contain both the pros and the cons.

Well I mean I started the thread to discuss whether or not we should keep transcripts because I feel they are unneeded. I should be able to give my opinion and contribute to the discussion. This thread is for the wiki not for myself.