People taking wiki posting too seriously: A rant post, which I've not done for awhile

I haven't done a post where I rage and moan about something mind-bendingly stupid in awhile, so here goes, brace yourself for me bemoaning galaxy-brained individuals being foolish.

Recently, some evidence came out some people were sockpuppeting, and I advised who gave me the information to report it to Wikia Staff.

For the crime of doing so, I got comments on this blog (which I have site moderation on to prevent) and my DeviantArt account saying I need to be lynched and got middle finger emojis, all for having the audacity to give some common sense advice to someone.

Apparently, just doing my job on Wikia is enough to get people to want to see me swing from a gibbet.

Honestly, if that is what I deserve for that, I'd love to know what these insanely butthurt people think should happen when I do something that is actually wrong.

I also got another instance where someone I blocked for being a raging jackass contacts me on Reddit to alternate between asking me to unblock them and acting like a total douchecanoe at the same time. Ironically, they almost had me convinced to do so until they just couldn't wait for me to respond (I wanted to think it over for a day or so) before they followed up their appeals with being insulting, which makes me hope and pray they never become a diplomat, they will certainly cause another World War with that attitude.

The sad part in both cases is people getting absurdly angry over posting on WIKIA, of all places. It's got some good wikis and some good editors, but it's also chock full of insanely angry children (and in some cases this is quite literal, others are just highly immature adults) who take their precious posts so seriously there that any threat to their continued ability to post whatever they please means they honestly believe the targets of their ire deserve death and abuse, no matter the legitimacy of why their edit ability may have been restrained.

I don't know what to say to this, aside from the fact that if these people are taking something like that this seriously, they could stand to find a much less stressful hobby.

Minetest and why I prefer it over Minecraft

One game I enjoy on Linux is "MInetest", a free, open-source clone of Minecraft, and in some way, I deem it superior.


1. It's FREE: Might as well start with the best aspect, I pay nothing to play. Granted, I don't regret spending money on Minecraft when I did, it was worth it, but you cannot beat absolutely nothing in terms of price.

2. MODS. Yeah, I know, Minecraft has mods too, but unlike Minecraft, I pay nothing for all of Minetest's mods, and the modding feature is way more granular, meaning I can strip a Minetest game down it's barest essentials if I please, while I can't do the same to Minecraft

3. Open-source. When Notch sold Microsoft Minecraft, all hope the engine would ever be completely free for anyone to mess with to whatever extent possible died. Prior to their acquisition of Minecraft, modders had been doing a lot of fun things unfettered by limits, now it comes with oversight by a third party over the core source and price tags on mods not released on approved storefronts for free.

4. Cleaner, more lightweight codebase. I find Minetest starts faster and runs better than Minecraft especially after hours of play, and given how much Minecraft can become a system hog over time, that makes it quite good from where I'm sitting.


I could go on, but honestly, if you want to switch from Minecraft to Minetest, it's not a difficult switch, both play about the same, but for the reasons stated above, it's why I only play the latter now.