Thread:The S/@comment-995426-20160410215229/@comment-995426-20160411145709

You also asked why I still comment on a show that bothers me so much.

I like wiki editing. It's a collaborative documentary effort, and there's a lot here to contribute here, and I have contributed to a great deal of it. But there's also a social dimension to getting involved here. I don't just want to collaborate&mdash;I want to talk to people.

And the problem arises not only when a show most people are watching goes south (most of my friends have stopped watching it entirely), but it's still the only thing most users on the wiki want to talk about, and they seem to have a habit of talking most about the very things on the show that make my skin crawl the worst. Since I love TMNT, and I love this show for what it has done in the past, it is painful to see how the show is going, and I periodically feel a fan pain that compels me to comment on that.

But what's also painful is when practically no one is talking about the good TMNT that actually is still being published (by IDW, etc.). In so many ways as a TMNT fan, I'm alone on this wiki, and I'd like more people to actually be reading and commenting on all the other stuff out there. But not only do most users seem to be 2K12-only fans (or 2K12-and-1987-only fans), but they don't seem to have much of an inclination to read or discuss anything else in the TMNT multiverse. I've tried starting forum threads for other versions of TMNT before, and have been met with the deafening silence of crickets.

It's been suggested that I can just go to the Technodrome Forums if I want more people to talk to who like the same things I like. And yes, I'm already registered there. But the problem is part of the reason I'm at Turtlepedia to begin with&mdash;Technodrome is not a wiki, and what I want, again, is a collaborative documentive effort. Since not all my friends who have come to loathe 2K12 have this same documentary ethic, they aren't here on this wiki, which means we never hear from them. And I've occasionally asked some of them to become involved at this wiki, but they'd rather not. And why? Because they see this site as mainly for current fans of what 2K12 is doing lately, and all the attention and discussion is about topics that makes their skin crawl. Being in such a place would be joyless and irritating to them, as it occasionally has been for me over the past year.

But as long as this is Turtlepedia and not just 2K12pedia, I still have work that needs to be done here. And when being that fan comes with the occasional (or even prolonged) distress of fan disappointment, I need an outlet for those frustrations. And this site needs both such contributions&mdash;the documentive as well as the critical.

Can you see the logic in my words?