User blog:LarryRawr/Club Penguin Quitting Policy by LarryRawr

There comes a time when a user feels that it is their time to leave. Here are some guidelines on how to quit. First of all, do not make a big deal about leaving; it is not necessary at all. Spamming the Shout Box saying that you are going to leave is not necessary to leave. There is no need to seek the attention of others. While you are making a decision on whether you will abandon the Wiki or not, make sure that you want to. For example, a user puts up a quit template yet they still are active in the Wiki; the user probably does not want to renounce his time editing there. Quitting in order to manipulate others into doing what you want is a horrible thing to do. If you are deciding to do that, you should stop. Also, there is no need to make a poll to ask other people if you should retire from editing or not, if you feel that you want to depart, then do it. If you see other users saying that are going to quit, it is best not to copy what they are doing. You will be causing an unnecessary chain reaction which will really hurt the Wiki. If you are ending your association with the Wiki to seek attention, you are doing it for the wrong reason. If you are constantly updating your user page to tell people millions of meaningless reasons why you are leaving, you should stop. I believe people should follow these guidelines because too many users have been leaving or have been threatening to leave lately. Everyone makes a commotion about this issue when it really should not be. This puts a lot of stress on users in the community and many new users who come tend to leave as well because of the instability in the Wiki.

This topic also brings up another idea into mind. What exactly those “quit” mean at the Club Penguin Wikia? To “quit” means to temporarily take a break for a couple of days from editing at the Wiki when other users did not do what you want or you disliked something that happened. While the user is “quitting”, they constantly check back and forth on the Wikia to see if things will go their way. After the community constantly begs for the user to come back, the user come back to chat on the Shout Box and acts like nothing happened. This needs to stop. First of all, it is not possible to quit from the Wiki because it is not a job. This is something you volunteered to do and nobody is making you stay. Editing at a Wiki is a hobby, unless you were actually staff. The correct term for what all these users have been doing for a long time is “inactive”. If one decides to become “inactive”, all they need to do is to leave a brief message on their user page saying why (not even this is necessary). For this Wiki, I suggest that we stop making polls, stop spamming links to blogs and user pages, stop spamming the shout box, and just stop seeking attention when it is in regards to being “inactive”. Overtime, we will be able to remove all the quit templates (which are overly unnecessary) and we will be able to leave the Wiki without saying anything at all. This is a huge problem that needs to be addressed. Once we take action on this problem, conflicts will be less likely on the Shout Box. Less conflicts means more happy users and most importantly, new users that will want to stay. Thank you.

--LarryGoesRawr!  LOL! 04:15, 14 August 2009 (UTC)