Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-4621372-20121206202014/@comment-32656-20121209112824

People leave all the time, Guns. Life happens. That wasn't a point in the least.

Edits are up, user numbers are up, even the number of timelines are up. And Map Games are down - with only the better ones remaining. Map Games and Other articles are in the same range of edits right now, and have been, except for a two week or so span when PM2 came out, for a while. I do count things up on occasion. And the Map Games have a lot more 1-2 byte edits, too.

Every promotion item Wikia has done, we've been signed up for.We get advertised in a fairly large blog regularly. And our rep on AH.com is finally starting to improve now that the map games are down in number.

We are doing fine.

Didn't say a single thing about "ASB Map Games." It's the map games in general being so large in number that did it. Now that that has slowed to more reasonable levels, things are getting better.

Map Game administration is fine.

That statement about DD is not even remotely true. There is a lot of ground that could be covered. Wasn't kidding when I said that I've made up lists on request before covering that.

There has been extensive gaps before in things being graduated. Life happens.

A new attempt at a community timeline involving some sort of magic would be a fresh idea. Though it won't go anywhere. Just ground it in reality like Oer has done with SV.

There is an ASB section, divided by the reason as to why it is ASB. There was weeks of debate over this, for pete's sake.

Actually, TB, those timeline PoD categories are being removed. And ASB already has them.

ASB does not mean a timeline is bad - or that it cannot be featured, theoretically. There's not a limit on what the PoD is for those - just that it follows logically from the PoD, whatever it may be, and is not biased. Almost no ASB timelines do this.

There is little need to tell someone the reason for the ASB tag unless they either ask, or are not a new user. The amount of people that make articles and never return here has never been a good number, after all, categories or no categories, explanations or no explanations. And usually they are either obvious problems like aliens or zombies, or they are incredibly biased. I can't remember the last one about WWII or the ACW that wasn't, for instance. Heck, most of them don't seem to know what it means anyways.

Really, new users tend to be calmer when you don't say anything/more stick around. Not what logic would tell you, but... seems to be the case irregardless.

ASB has not been suppressed in any form. It's actually doing better now then ever.