User reception wikis
User reception wikis (comprising of The Outcast Network, The Fandoms & Hatedoms Database, and The Scratch Reception Wikis) are reception wikis that generally focus on internet users. Most of these wikis were a part of a wiki network named The Outcast Network, which closed in September 2020 due to severe violations of Miraheze's Content Policy. These wikis are infamous for causing drama and harassing users.They were a major contributor to Miraheze's reputation declining.
List of Wikis
Wikis marked in bold were a part of The Outcast Network.
- Atrocious YouTubers Wiki
- Amazing Youtubers Wiki
- Horrible Vyonders Wiki
- Marvelous Vyonders Wiki
- Unfavorable Wikis and Users Wiki
- Incredible Wikis and Users Wiki
- Toxic Fandoms and Hatedoms Wiki
- Healty Fandoms and Hatedoms Wiki
- Crummy Scratchers Wiki
- Astonishing Scratchers Wiki
- Atrocious Deviants Wiki
- Talented Deviants Wiki
- Bad Scratch Wiki
- Garbage Memes Wiki
- Appailing Tik Tokers wiki
- Awful Tik Tokers wiki
- Pitiful content creators
Why Most of Them Were Tiresome
- Above all, these wikis, along with the the media reception wikis that would later be known as Qualitipedia, significantly damaged Miraheze's reputation, as stated above. It got so bad that at one point, Miraheze added a question in their FAQ explaining that they're not toxic.[1]
- And while this has nothing to do with the page, the irony is that Miraheze was worried over the controversy surrounding the Outcast Network even though they could have just simply stopped them by shutting down the entire network, which they somehow should have done two years ago when the drama started to become more noticable.
- Speaking about the toxicity of the community, the users were edit-warring with themselves very often to this point, any other wiki on the Miraheze like Polandball wiki, Real life villains wiki,Cunt Wars wiki or Pizza Tower wiki hadn't that toxic community.
- Most of their pages were very poorly-written and/or unprofessional, some of them didn't even have basic things such as a sentence explaining who the user is.[2]
- Some of the pages were also very short, containing three pointers or less.
- They often criticized users based on their reputation instead of their actions, which are one of the main reasons why these wikis are/were despised.
- Speaking of which, this behavior obviously also violated Miraheze's Content Policy on harassment.
- They were so biased and bad that they made the media reception wikis/Qualitipedia look like reliable sources. To make it worse, pages often had little to no sources which led to the allegations the wikis had regarding rumor-spreading.[3][4][5][6][7][8][9][10][11][12][13][14][15]
- A glaring example of this is Unfavorable Wikis and Users Wiki; the whole wiki was an unsourced mess with lots of biased, rant-like pages that attacked users instead of properly criticizing them with some people even going as far as to consider it to be an "Encyclopedia Dramatica Lite".[16]
- Incredible Wikis and Users Wiki was very egotistic, especially since users could make pages about themselves.[17][18]
- A lot of pages also had little to no redeeming/bad qualities, which didn't help.
- Much like Qualitipedia, several of these wikis had an Anti-SJW, Anti gamer gate, right-wing bias.
- Their staff was incredibly corrupt and horrible and couldn't take any form criticism and some of the admins even had double standards, they could also false ban a innocent user who did nothing wrong, and sometimes the admins had disagreements with themselves. Because of that, the vandalism or spam wasn't removed for a long time.[19]
- Amazing YouTubers Wiki's former administration was infamous for being lazy and awful; it got so bad that most of the administration was demoted by a Steward and new admins had to be elected.
- On Toxic Fandoms and Hatedoms Wiki, one of the admins was demoted simply because they didn't want to support a disruptive user.
- Some of the wikis had a lot of unnecessary categories that messed up the pages and the wikis overall.[20]
- Some of these wikis even received imitations/successors/Reboots that were even worse.
- Bad Scratch Wiki was a ripoff of Crummy Scratchers Wiki; it only lasted around one month and the drama it caused actually led to Miraheze adopting its "no hate wikis" policy.
- Garbage Memes Wiki was a cheap ripoff of Toxic Fandoms and Hatedoms Wiki and it was so bad that even the other receptionwikishate that wiki(and for good reasons).
- These wikis took themselves too seriously, which was a main cause of one of the biggest dramas in reception wiki history. This was especially more glaring on the Atrocious YouTubers Wiki, where many of the pages contained a lot of horrible and unecessary bias and nitpicks.
- Several pages on these wikis were infamous for the issues outlined above:
- Horrible Vyonders Wiki:
- AA_ElSexyBlocky5677SiRJJakobsNo69
- Atrocious Deviants Wiki:
- Zenko Controversy (despite not being related to DeviantArt)[23]
- Crummy Scratchers Wiki:
- Toxic Fandoms and Hatedoms Wiki:
- Kink Shaming[26]
- Unvaforable Wikis and Users Wiki:
- Just Leon
- Atrocious YouTubers Wiki:
- ZONE TOONS[27]
- Horrible Vyonders Wiki:
- Some of the reasons were also incredibly abused in these wikis. Because of that, they became very repetitive and even worse, they were on almost all pages.[28][29][30]
- The comment sections were the biggest offenders because the toxic users could harass the poor user on the page.
- These comments weren't also (mostly) removed by the stewards and the users weren't also banned, so this method of harassment was very popular and doesn't get stopped.
- The wikis are hypocrites: most of them say that they're against harassment, although the comment section have been harassing users on pages themselves.
- Another case of hypocrisy: As for the Unfavorable Wikis and Users Wiki, they criticize other wikis for being "poorly written", "not reliable" or "causing drama" even though the wiki itself has had the same problems as well.
- '''Other Hypocrisy"':Zenko was added on Unfavorable wikis and Users wiki for beign a vandal!Despite The community of these wiki were theirself toxic.
- These wikis seemed to be anti-meme and anti-porn considering they were criticizing the users because of their opinions.
- TFaHW was again the biggest offender due to being for example anti-meme and anti-porn(And also anti crossover).
- Atrocious Youtubers wiki was bordeline Anti-porn because It thinks that All erotic artists are bad!This is disrespectful for free speech!
Adegually praised Qualities
- Although a grand majority of wikis were bad, there were a few well-received user-based Reception Wikis such as Amazing YouTubers Wiki to name one.
- It was also the reason why the mentioned above wiki and also Astonishing Scratchers Wiki survived the closure of user reception wiki, because they weren't harassing anyone and were pretty decent.
- While most of pages on these wikis were awful, some were pretty decent and almost everyone would agree with them; some examples are the PKMNLivesNew page on Unfavorable Wikis and Users Wiki or Kaj on Crummy Scratchers Wiki.[34]
- Most of these wikis were thankfully closed in September 2020 because of the rampant violations of Miraheze's then-recent policy forbidding hate wikis.So means that it saved the reputation of the wiki farm
Reception
Much like Qualitipedia (2019-present), The Outcast Network was met with an overwhelming negative reception with many criticizing the wiki for labeling bullying as criticism as well as similar reasons to Qualitipedia's poor reception.[36] Some have also labeled both it and its sister service as the entirety of Miraheze despite other wikis being on the wikifarm (i.e., Weirdcyclopedia, Funvasion, The Pizza Tower Wiki, Polandball wiki,The now defunct Real life villains wiki,etc)[37][38]
References
- ↑ https://meta.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=FAQ&oldid=325813#Is_Miraheze_toxic%3F
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200809164124/https://unfavorablefandomwikis.miraheze.org/wiki/Madelinefan103
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200813235453/https://unfavorablefandomwikis.miraheze.org/wiki/Dream_Fiction_Wiki
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200716234810/https://unfavorablefandomwikis.miraheze.org/wiki/Checker_Fred
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200815172541/https://unfavorablefandomwikis.miraheze.org/wiki/Atrocious_YouTubers_Wiki
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20191212233532/https://atrociousdeviants.miraheze.org/wiki/1amayatakeru
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20191212233530/https://atrociousdeviants.miraheze.org/wiki/Wonderland-Rebel
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20191010225438/https://atrociousdeviants.miraheze.org/wiki/Brillyskchakan1cv2
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200529164903/https://crummyscratchers.miraheze.org/wiki/Alphabetons
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200529195749/https://crummyscratchers.miraheze.org/wiki/TommySchools26
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200529161513/https://crummyscratchers.miraheze.org/wiki/958000424
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200117212601/https://atrociousyoutubers.miraheze.org/wiki/CoolSuperMarioBros
- ↑ https://archive.ph/2QsQM
- ↑ https://archive.ph/BxfOV
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20191202171715/https://incrediblewikisandusers.miraheze.org/wiki/OldDirtyFoamer
- ↑ https://meta.miraheze.org/wiki/Stewards%27_noticeboard/Archive_13#Would_you_please_close_down_this_wiki%3F
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200819111613/https://incrediblewikisandusers.miraheze.org/wiki/Grand_Albert
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200718222705/https://incrediblewikisandusers.miraheze.org/wiki/TheKorraFanatic
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200812231235/https://unfavorablefandomwikis.miraheze.org/wiki/Topic:Vrxpsn207xopgr7y
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200917160908/https://horriblevyonderswiki.miraheze.org/wiki/MediaPowerRussianGalacticVideoMaker334_HD (Look at the categories section at the bottom of the page)
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200131153117/https://toxicfandomsandhatedoms.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Shoehorners
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200628075450/https://toxicfandomsandhatedoms.miraheze.org/wiki/Category:Worshippers
- ↑ http://web.archive.org/web/20200420035111/https://atrociousdeviants.miraheze.org/wiki/Zenko_Controversy
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200529155603/https://crummyscratchers.miraheze.org/wiki/Rebecca_Spark
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200529194142/https://crummyscratchers.miraheze.org/wiki/Newhungrymosquito
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200807103140/https://toxicfandomsandhatedoms.miraheze.org/wiki/Kink_Shaming
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20191102045725/https://atrociousyoutubers.miraheze.org/wiki/ZONE_TOONS
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200529165236/https://crummyscratchers.miraheze.org/wiki/FWKScratch
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200529192721/https://crummyscratchers.miraheze.org/wiki/Haroooold
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200529201835/https://crummyscratchers.miraheze.org/wiki/BorisERufusFanAgain
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200825041356/https://horriblevyonderswiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Marijn_Venhuizen
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200801133739/https://horriblevyonderswiki.miraheze.org/wiki/Canadian_Goanimator
- ↑ https://web.archive.org/web/20200208125153/https://horriblevyonderswiki.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Loserfan2018_/_BFBLover18&useformat=mobile
- ↑ https://archive.ph/XsD5w
- ↑ https://meta.miraheze.org/w/index.php?title=Requests_for_Comment/Topic_ban_Reception_wikis&diff=prev&oldid=136471&diffmode=source
- ↑ https://www.deviantart.com/adamirman/journal/Why-the-Outcast-Network-Community-is-TOXIC-846732569
- ↑ https://www.thetoptens.com/m/ShadowHawk18/321264/
- ↑ https://www.thetoptens.com/internet/reasons-why-miraheze-is-awful/
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