Disclaimer: this response is more emotional than logical, so take the wording and tone with a grain of salt. I also don't mean everyone on the thread (since that means I am antagonizing myself :( ) but rather just from a quick skim-read. That is all.
AquaticPanic wrote:
Neutral
I do agree that it's gotten boring but we don't "Use it just to get edits". We normamly use it to interact with each other, just a place to be off topic.
That is fine. However, there are places designed specifically for this purpose. An example is the wiki's chat and its Discord server. They're both "live chats", so there are no flaws, right? Doing it on the wiki is what gave Twizzzler their conclusion since it does indeed give edits.
AquaticPanic wrote:
Besides, I see no harm it could possibly cause. Hit And Heal was banned because drama. Roleplaying was banned because of flooding the wiki activity too much. However, I don't see any reason to get rid of BTP, since it's really harmless. Sure, it may be a big string of mainly pointless threads, but that's why it's on the Off-Topic board, and there's a big time in between each thread creation
The harm would be spikes in activity which can disturb the activity in the RC, making it more difficult during events like Wanted. This is a personal reason in particular, but I also hate how uncreative the thread always is. There is a reason it had become boring: lack of creativity; it is using tired jokes in an attempt to be funny. Outside preference, it is also using "i ban you because" more as a prefix for a sentence as if a conversation is supposed to be happening (which the chat and Discord are for). There are people like me who say, "I ban because I am sick and tired of seeing this pointless, redundant, pandering crap on my RC during work duty." It is the core of intended stupidity which eventually becomes second-nature to people or less bad a place that people can express carelessness for the sake of satiating whatever compulsive habit they have. I simply don't like it and every other wiki game out there, and I personally want all of them to go away.
AquaticPanic wrote:
I really see no gain by removing it.
Nothing to gain other than a peace of mind when the thread suddenly becomes active and it spams the RC. Nothing to gain other than to erase tired, old, generic, uncreative, pandering, effortless "ban" jokes. Nothing to gain other than people looking to do something different and perhaps be creative enough to make something trendy as well as fun and "helpful".
Agree or disagree, but it will be better to me if it were gone forever. That's all.