User:Pinsplash/(hopefully) final statement on VDC

Man, can we forget that shit? I know some of the stuff I did on vdc was bad looking back. Some arguments could have been avoided if I was less stubborn. I do regret the severe lack of discussion that happened regarding the entity article template, and I sort of regret starting it cause now that I've quit, everything's just more fucked up over there. I didn't want it to end like many other suggestions do: on a thin sliver in the middle of a talk page.

Incidents on VDC would have been much less severe if Jeff Lane or another admin had actually stepped in even once. Valve's philosophy for the wiki was essentially "the community decides everything" and to give very minimal intervention from admins. That doesn't work. A wiki needs present authority in order to keep it functioning and healthy, to carry out maintenance, to resolve disputes, to (maybe, just maybe) enforce a little quality control. Those things have not happened in recent times. They will happen here.