User blog:Ultimate Mega Gamer/ The Final Curtain

Introduction
Of course, I'm still using a structure for a blog post like this. Classic me I guess. Anyhow, this has been a long time coming. Over the course of the past year or so I've been steadily watching the quality of this wiki decline. I've watched good users leave only to be replaced by absolutely god-awful users who make this wiki worse with the things they do, the things they say & the way they act. I've tried to be patient. I've tried to give the wiki time to improve but it seems that the more I hope for it to improve, the worse it gets & my patience has finally run out & thus it's time for me to leave. I always said that if it ever came to this I would go out the same way that Nocturn did, making clear the problems this wiki has & what steps need to be taken to fix them & by god I'm going to attempt to do that. However, unlike Nocturn, I'm not going to be so kind as to not name names. The people responsible for this wikis downfall aren't good enough to deserve the discretion & as such, they won't be getting it.

The R Word
There's been a lot of talk about respect on this wiki as of late, with people citing a general lack of it among users & as thus the respect rule detailed here has been much more heavily enforced. And that's fine, asking people to be respectful is fine, I do not have a problem with that whatsoever. What I do have a problem, however, is the fear that it incites. It stops people from being willing to speak their minds. If somebody wants to call out something shady or crappy that another user is doing the enforcement of the respect rule always keeps them reserved & unable to fully convey their thoughts because they're afraid that they could get a warning or even a ban for saying what they want to say. It's a stigma that needs to be killed. Nobody can be expected to kiss the ass of the people they hate because they're too afraid to tell somebody that they dislike. Don't mistake me here, this is not a problem that can be blamed on anyone. The rule is solid & is enforced just as much as it needs to be by the mods. But as I said, it's a stigma that needs to be killed. My suggestion, everybody needs to let people speak they minds when they want. If they're being overly rude or disrespectful then yes, stop them, but if everybody jumps on them for saying one small negative thing about a user then that's when it goes from upkeeping to censorship of ideas. And that IS NOT okay.

The Name Game
I can sit here & pretend that my biggest problem with the wiki is the respect rule but realistically, it's some really crappy users that are the reason I'm leaving. Now, of course, as I said above, the respect rule is enforced pretty heavily so, of course, I need to be careful with what I say because I don't want what will likely be one of the last things I do on this Wiki to get deleted because some people don't like what I have to say about them & can't take it when someone says something bad about them.

Fox-Shock
Jesus, we're starting off strong here. Fox-Shock is commonly said to be one of the nicest people on the wiki & I'm an asshole for disliking him. Fair enough, think what you want to think. As long as you know that I literally don't give a shit what you think about me. Fox-Shock is supposedly 28 years old or so he says. Yet for whatever reasons, if you tell him that you don't like him that apparently breaks him in two & he feels the need to think that just cause one person doesn't like him that nobody likes him like a child & then send his sister to the wiki to fight for him. The bullcrap that has been going on with him & all the hate people have been throwing at me for it shows just how much this wiki seeks to stomp out any negativity, no matter how right or wrong it is. I don't recall why but at some point myself, Fox-Shock & some others were in the Wiki chat & Fox was asking literally every single person there if they like him or not. Most of us made the choice to not respond to him or to tell him that they do just to shut him up. Eventually, he asked me again for what would have been the third or fourth time & I chose to respond with this: I thought that Fox would take the second option & choose to not care about what I thought. I thought that the 28-year-old, which mind you would make him my elder by 10 years, would be adult enough to ignore me. However, he left a few minutes later without ever responding in the slightest. I thought that would be it, he'd never talk to me again, not that I had a problem with that. However what followed is what I can only describe as pure insanity. It's worth mentioning that all of this came after a thread which had a lot of people calling him out for censoring his swearing (Found here.) which frankly, I don't give a shit about. I think his censoring is stupid & he should just not swear as opposed to censoring himself but that's not the point. He started acting like the entire wiki was against him & we got insanity from him like this:

I'm sure I don't need to explain it but this is obviously a massive overreaction to the censorship thread & that's only two examples, there are many more I could give. But it got even stupider from here, soon after what I had said in the chat, I received this message on my message wall.(Found here.) Truth be told, I never found it unreasonable for Fox to seek out an answer to this question. I sought to respond as respectfully & calmly as I could from the second I received this message. And that's why as I was writing it I reached out to both ROLVeBloxxer & two of the Admins of the wiki: Timefreezer4 & UTF to ensure that the response was not in violation of wikis rules & they both cleared the response. I'd have liked to provide evidence of this but the Discord channel that the messages were sent in has since been deleted & the messages were deleted alongside it. But I'm sure they'd corroborate that story should they be asked, not that I encourage you to do so. Anyhow, my response was this: Now whether or not you think my reasoning for disliking Fox is good or not is beside the point. The point is that the way he reacted to all of this just made him more & more unlikeable. To make a long story short, he disappeared from the wiki & sent his sister to the wiki to try to make everyone feel bad for what I said to him, either that or for the censoring thread (Found here.). At some point, she even tried to accuse us of being the reason for him possibly having suicidal thoughts which, I don't even need to tell you how fucking scummy, despicable & disgusting that is. I don't want to address the present too much in this blog but if Fox is having problems with depression then he should have stayed away from the wiki for much longer than a week like he did if it upset him as much as it did & sought out professional help as opposed to coming back here almost straight away where people being negative towards him was a given. But regardless of all that, if I disliked Fox before, you can be damn sure that I have nothing but feelings of pure disdain for him after that display.

Codytlane
If I were to try to give every single reason I cannot stand Codytlane & every evidence showing & explaining why I think he is a shitty user, I'd probably be stuck here writing this blog up to the moment I die. That means I need to pick my moments carefully. Let's start with the Raven vs Twilight attack. I call it an attack because it felt almost exactly like a troll attack. But I'll just tell the story. When Raven vs Twilight was made public on YouTube, Codytlane, a brony, infamous for constantly defending MLP no matter the circumstance & being an obsessive fanboy came to the page reacting to Raven's win with this: Now let me just say this up top. I don't hate MLP, I don't hate Bronies & I don't think that Bronies are obsessive & sad man-children like a lot of people seem to. In fact, one of my oldest friends is a Brony & that doesn't change my opinion of him in any way. The bottom line is this, I don't give a shit what you like, you can like whatever you want, just don't shove it in my face. But I fully understand that that is unfair to ask of somebody on a public website. But when your behavior becomes obnoxious repetitive & annoying then that's when it will start to get on my nerves & piss me off. And that's exactly how I would describe Cody & the way he talks about MLP, obnoxious, repetitive & annoying. And by the time he made this post, Cody had been acting like this since the second he joined the wiki in September of 2016. Anyhow, to get back on track, Cody made that post & almost instantly about 50% of the wiki dogpiled him & calling him salty & the like. (Found here.) At the time, I felt like it was a little bit over kill. But looking back at the way he acted. He was asking for it. I think the word that would best describe his behavior would be delusional. He acted like Twilight should have won simply just because he thought she should have. Going so far as to call the fight unfair. I would provide screenshots but he's since edited his comments so doing so would show you nothing. The best I can do is link you to the comments & you can check the history yourself. So you'll find them here, here & here. Suffice to say, he was acting crazy & if it gives you any indication of the kind of user Cody is, the second First members found out the Raven won, they knew that Cody would react like this. There are three other things I want to mention about Cody. Two are more pet peeves than scummy or obnoxious behaviour & the other is blatant rule breaking. The pet peeve is just that whenever somebody asks the wiki a question that an answer would require a small list of like five or six characters, Cody always feels the need to create a massive list of upwards of 25-30-50 characters. It's painfully annoying & I really don't know who he expects to read these behemoth lists in their entirety. The other pet peeve is that Cody constantly, unendingly, talks about creating infoboxes for characters. You know, these things: What is so special about these fucking things? Ask him. Cause I have literally no idea whatsoever. Now let's talk about the rule breaking. So if there's anything Cody loves more than MLP & Infoboxes, it's categories, Cody edits categories on the wiki religiously. Almost to an annoying degree. Actually, I take that back, it is annoying. Anyhow, the point that I'm trying to make is this: the first note inthe guidelines section of the Death Battle Wiki Rules & Guidelines page is that you are to seek the express permission of the wiki at large or an Admin before you create a new category. However, if you look through Cody's contributions, you'll find that Cody has created a number of categories but you'll be unable to find a forum post or a message to an admins walls asking for permission to create said catagories. Now, regardless of whether or not these categories are relevant now or at their times of creation this is still a direct violation of one of the wiki's guidelines. Which means that Cody has broken that rule multiple times & faced no punishment.

Injustice Night Terrorizer
Look, I don't think I need to go far into why this guy is a terrible user. It seems like everybody already knows. Injustice Night Terrorizer hasn't done a whole lot of things on the wiki other than soil the name of an amazing game & have roughly 50% of his contributions be him begging for people to go into the chat with him. The post he made the other day about Fox (That has since been deleted & I wasn't smart enough to grab a screenshot of it) was only made to start drama, which actually fucking worked which is disappointing. Even though admittedly, I was involved in a lot of it & I do apologize for that. But outside of that, this guy has tried leaving the wiki on like, two separate occasions, insulting all of us with blanket statements on the way out, calling us things like 'wikiots' & 'baiters' & 'catfishers' & if you know what any of those insults mean, feel free to hit me up cause I'd love to know myself. There was talk going around that Injustice had made a death threat to CallMeKnuckles, however, this has happened in chat so evidence of this is scarce. However, Internet02 was able to provide me a screenshot of exactly what he said: Obviously, this small screenshot doesn't provide context as to why Injustice said this as is its status as a death threat. With no disrespect towards CMK, I personally don't think this is actually a death threat so much as Injustice being an asshole, which is unquestionable. Also worth mention is the time he decided he wanted to build himself up to become an Admin on the wiki, (Found here. ) only to throw those dreams out in less than a day & try to insult all of us again. (Found here. ) After he got his warning (Found here.) he tried to make out both there & on the main pages that it was just a prank which, obviously, is a pathetic attempt to make out like he didn't mean it that he came up with to save face.

Alexey de Greit
Now, one of my dreams after being on the wiki for almost three years was to build my way up to becoming an admin, needless to say, I never got there but I'm not salty about it, I'm disappointed but there's nobody who can be blamed for this. However, I am pissed & annoyed that someone like Alexey de Greit could manage to make it to content mod in less than a year. Especially when all he's done in that time is display rudeness & a hatred towards the wiki that makes you question why the fuck he'd even want to hold any position of power here. Alexey has made it pretty clear that he thinks very little of the wiki: So as you can see, Alexey has never thought that this wiki was great, which makes you wonder why the fuck he'd even be here at all, let alone pump over 13,000 edits into it or take up a position as a Moderator which, mind you, he on multiple occasions has made threats to abuse the powers that being a Mod gives him, but we'll get to that in a bit. Apparently, I'm not the only person who saw this post & thought it was bullshit, you'll notice the part at the bottom that state he only made the comment to try to piss people off. Well, that was added in response to this: On an unrelated note, thank you Knuckles for saying what pretty much all of us were thinking. After CMK made that comment, Alexey made that edit to his comment & then doubled down by saying this: So, Alexey's logic is that he acted like a dick to bait someone into being mad at him. Okay, cool. But here's the thing, if you're being an asshole, that means that you are still being a fucking asshole. It doesn't matter if you're trying to get a reaction. I said at the beginning of this blog that I was going to be shaming users, do you think that means that if somebody gets mad at this post I get to use the excuse that I was trying to get a reaction out of them? No, it doesn't. That's just one example of Alexey being an asshole. Here are a few random others. Also worth mention is that fact that Alexey has made multiple threats to abuse his powers as a mod. On multiple occasion he has made threats to remove threads & posts, citing no other real reason other than his own personal annoyance. Once more, CMK coming in with a banging response. But this again begs the question, why does he care? He thinks the wiki is crap right? He said it himself. So why does he give a shit? Why try to fix something that according to him, can't be fixed? But of course, this is an obvious threat to abuse his powers. Thankfully, the mods caught wind of this & issued him a warning. But shock horror, he tried to make out that it was just an "empty threat". (Found here.) I'm sure that you can guess what I'm about to say. A threat empty or otherwise '''is still a fucking threat. '''Who gives a literal shit if you were going to do it or not? You're still making a threat to abuse your powers as a mod. Powers mind you that somebody who had displayed the attitude that Alexey did should never, ever have been given. But hey, I should probably cover my ass. Alexey, I've had this entire blog checked by Time, UTF & Bloxxer before I made it live but I know you love the idea of removing threads & comments that you don't like so I don't have a doubt in my mind that you want to remove this one. I say go for it, you'll be proving my point for me. You'll be proving my point that you're a rude, abusive & power hungry user bent on spinning your own narratives & lies that doesn't deserve that role on this wiki that you've been given.

L1zerd_guy
Query: How can a user get over 2000 edits on the wiki & have half of those be pointlessly responding to posts just saying 'ok?' I don't know but L1zerd_guy somehow did it so you should probably ask him. Like, I'll give credit where credit is due, he doesn't do it as much as when he first joined but like, his shit was so bad & annoying that it ended up shutting an entire Discord server down. Imagine that. This guy got on people's nerves so hard that they shut down a Discord server just to shut him up. But besides from that, he's a bit of a dick regardless. Take, for example, the time he picked a fight with Internet02 for seemingly no reason. Internet's replies were removed from it but on this thread, L1zerd was trying to make out that Internet had been 'mean' to him with, shockingly, no proof that this was true whatsoever & when Internet tried to ask L1zerd about this... Well, this is what happened: Yeah, I'm sure it's not required. Why give evidence when you can just treat your own words as fact? Anyhow, I forget what the straw that broke the camel's back was but eventually, a number of users decided to confront L1zerd in the wikia chat. As soon as he was asked a question about Internet, L1zerd made up an excuse to get out of the chat. He said that he had an oh so convenient meeting to attend. But less than an hour he was making edits on the wiki. Immediately, the people who were talking to him in the chat confronted him once more. (Found here.) Again, L1zerd made up an excuse to keep from being forced to talk about his problems with Internet, likely because he had no proof of any of the accusations he was making. Anyhow, to draw the story to a close, in the end, Internet almost left the wiki because he couldn't put up with L1zerd's lies anymore. He never ended up leaving & I'm glad he didn't because as I said then: That's just one, small example of L1zerds bullshit. Another example, one of my personal favorites, as a matter of fact, is this: First of all, it's spelled "You're." And secondly, as the screenshot shows, that message was sent on November 16th in 2017. L1zerd joined this wiki on October 19th, 2017. So when he sent that message, he hadn't even been a user on the wiki for a month. And yet he's telling this guy that he was "Going to be hearing a lot about him." Can you fathom how egotistical that is? None of the major users even knew shit about L1zerd at that point. Mostly because the only thing he ever had to say at the time was "ok." And mind you, this was not the only one of this message he sent. Going through his contributions show you that he had sent no less than 10 other near-identical copies of that message to other users. Who the hell does he think he is? Also worth mention is the time that L1zerd spammed the same identical message to somebody who is supposedly an IRL personal friend of his, telling her to stop sending abusive messages to people, as if he was an admin.

Nevermind the fact that he could have talked to her somewhere that was more private like IRL or on the wiki that he, Thea, her sister Kate & Fox-Shock have set up for conversations exactly like this. (Which everybody knows about but I don't think they know that that is the case.) But what the hell does he think he's doing issuing somebody a warning like that? He's not an admin & has literally no authority on this wiki. Luckily, somebody who actually does have some authority came in & shut him down.

Dio & DJ
Dio & DJ aren't here for their trolling although, that is a big part of it & fuck them both for all of the shit they put all of us through. Basically, the only reason I want to bring them up is that they were both given chances they should never have. Letting their newer socks stay on the wiki & giving them one more chance is bullshit & never should have happened. I've told this to UTF several times & we've spoken about it as much as we need to & honestly, I don't want to drag UTF through the dirt because he's one of the few good users left here so that's all I'm going to say about those two. I just wanted to cover that base. But I will give a special mention to Doom Elite 4 who was 100% a Dio sock & anyone who doesn't see that is legit blind. The dude had Yu-Gi Moto vs Yu Narukami on his profile. Literally, nobody wants that match apart from Dio. And what's more, the second people started catching on to him being Dio, he removed that thumb which pretty much confirmed it. He gave himself away right from the start like he has with every sock he's had before & since.

Hero of Darkness
I can sum Hero of Darkness up with one word: arrogant. Hero of Darkness is by far one of the most arrogant people I've ever known. I'll be honest, I never paid too much attention to most of what Hero did before say, February. But then I noticed that his posts were massive. I never bothered reading them because I knew I didn't give a shit about whatever he was talking about, but I noticed that he was getting aggravated by people who were doing very simple things like disagreeing with the posts that he wrote. Again, I didn't really care too much. I wasn't involved, his problem wasn't with me so I had no reason to care, but then he decided to leave the wiki & ho boy, was he going to be a cunt about it? This is the post that he made announcing that he was leaving the wiki. I think it goes without saying that literally every single word he used to describe the users of the wiki could be used to describe him in this post alone. The TL;DR of the post is that nobody liked what he was saying & everyone hated the things he had to say & that he thinks he's smarter, more intelligent & overall better than you. After that thread blew up with everybody telling he that he was being a pretentious & smug dickhead, as it should have, (Found here.) and was later deleted, as it should have been, Hero- Actually, I'm sick of calling him Hero. Cause he's not that, he's the opposite... So after the post was deleted, Villian took to some of the people who asked him if he was okay with them to confirm that the people who were asking the questions that they weren't the problem & post yet another massive wall of text detailing how he's better than everyone else & we're all jerks yadda, yadda, yadda (Found here.) Doesn't matter that literally nobody was agreeing with what Villian was saying, we were all jerks & he was smarter than us. Unfortunately, Villian wasn't smart enough to know when to quit while most of us were smart enough to give up on him very early on. Now, am I saying that these users should be banned? No. Well, not all of them at least. Hero, Injustice, Dio, DJ & maybe L1zerd should be, but that's not my call to make. The point is that these people & others that I couldn't be bothered mentioning like Blabby & Young-Jah are major reasons that the wiki is nothing resembling its former glory & they deserved to be called out for their awful behavior. Doesn't matter how long ago any of these incidents are, even though pretty most all of them are fairly recent, most of these users have failed to show a change in they're attitude & likely never will.

The Contest
So, those who participate in the contest might be wondering what happens to that now. Well, I've thought a lot about it & I have three options. I can either try my best to move it to Discord, I can keep doing it here & just focus on that & nothing else on the wiki or I can just end it right here, right now. I've tried to set up a Discord for it but I just can't figure it out & I want to cut ties with this wiki once & for all so I really don't want to stay here just for that. So killing it seemed like it was the best option. However, after I made my intentions to write this blog & leave the wiki known on a private Discord server, ROLVeBloxxer asked if he could take over the contest in my absence. An offer I saw no reason not to accept. As a newly appointed admin, Bloxxer won't even need to move the contest to a new location as he can edit the blog directly. So once this week, Ryu vs Jin, ends, the contest in its entirety will be handled by ROLVeBloxxer. I've made clear that he has complete creative freedom to change as little or as much as he would like to & he's already shown me some alterations he's making to the line-up of matches in the pipeline. I trust that he will keep it running to the standard I have set & I wish him the best in doing so. Don't fuck it up    you  cube motherfucker.

In Conclusion
I know that I just spent a lot of time pretty much slagging off the entire wiki & a fair amount of the most prominent users on it, but aside from recent months being literally garbage as far as my life on this wiki goes & everything I've detailed on this blog, I've had my share of fun on this website. I've spent almost three years enjoying myself here but since the enjoyment has ended, so must my time here. But it's not all bad, I get to walk away with some pretty solid friends & the memories of some kick-ass users on this wiki both past & present.


 * ROLVeBloxxer


 * Internet02


 * CallMeKnuckles


 * UTF


 * Timefreezer4


 * ARagingKid


 * Not Really a Person


 * DENSTIFY1


 * Silverboy300


 * KombatKid1


 * ArgeintinianDeadpool


 * Kingsly the Fifth


 * FEVG620

That's a way shorter list than I thought it would be but whatever.

And that's not even mentioning all the BAMFs who aren't around anymore. The point I'm trying to make is that although this break up is going to be pretty messy, it's for the best. And I don't have many regrets as far as this wiki is concerned. In fact, I have a tonne of memories that I'll treasure for a very long time. I've been trying to hold on for a really long time, hoping that I'll be able to make new, fantastic memories that can match the old ones, but I just can't do it anymore. Though I will try to hold out hope that the wiki will begin to improve. Though, I truly don't know what steps should be taken in order for that to happen. At the end of the day, maybe the problem is me. Maybe the wiki as it currently is is just tailored to people who aren't me or the others who I know has a general dislike for the wiki. Were that the case then I suppose most of my ranting & complaining wouldn't have any relevance. But it's time for me to wrap up. So it sucks that it's come to an end, especially such a shitty end for me. But it's finally that time.

Goodbye & good luck. It's been a hell of a ride. But it's time for me to get off.

