Prolly the decent amount of circlejerking that happens in the forums
About what?
Yknow, the Albanian SpongeBob thingy, but most notably creepypasta stuff. Not too recently a search for an unknown youtube video I was looking for was derailed and called a "creepypasta" just because it had some weird menacing music/sounds and references to nazis
"oooh, you're a- a freaked out child in the woods..."
I think the majority of people would answer this question with articles that are either poorly formatted or completely fabricated. This is also a lot of the reason people hate LMA, it falls into that category. Some people don't seem to understand that this wiki is for legitimately lost media, not campfire stories.
With that said, what annoys me the most personally are people who only come here for the one particular piece of lost media they're interested in, but don't care at all about lost media as a whole, not finding any of it interesting and only settling here because they want everyone else to help their particular cause. Admittedly, I arrived at this wiki because of one particular article - the 3D Groove article - but I find a lot of the other topics here to also be interesting, and try and do what I can if I believe I can help.
People who claim to have found something but actually haven't (or only are willing to give it out under a certain ridiculous condition) are also annoying, but I wouldn't say they top the list.
Last Edit: Apr 10, 2017 3:36:59 GMT by tomysshadow
The first three are pretty much a tie. Plagiarism is just incredibly annoying, and trolls can do a lot damage to the credibility of the LMW. Both are often combined to ridiculous effect.
As for (REDACTED), it is a disgrace in terms of that's where the community was and here is where the community is right now. It's very much Old Shame for those who have been with the community since the beginning.
Plagiarism is my #1 enemy for a lot of reasons, including the fact they are a pain to clean up to remove signs of the text being copied and pasted from another source (usually from Wikipedia or another Wikia related to TV show/Movie/Video Game etc.) and its essentially a lazy way of creating an article since the author didn't even write anything original about the subject and thought that copying the solid source's text would make for a great article because they don't need to change anything because its "perfect the way it is"(read my lips: it's not a way to write an article because you're expected to do research on the subject and provide references for each claim in the articles with of course, your original words). I'm glad the rules on plagiarism have been strengthened to combat articles that haven't had their plagiarism issues be fixed for a long time and pretty much put them up for deletion as soon as it's been discovered and the issue hasn't been resolved.
Also, I don't like trolls who lie about having lost media (some even go so far with fabricated and unnecessary reasons why they don't want to share it; for others, they fake finding the lost media in question), but it's by far one of my least concerns about the wiki.
Despite the frustrations of normal day life we go through, the best thing to do about it is still being happy for our friends and family.
Plagiarism is my #1 enemy for a lot of reasons, including the fact they are a pain to clean up to remove signs of the text being copied and pasted from another source (usually from Wikipedia or another Wikia related to TV show/Movie/Video Game etc.) and its essentially a lazy way of creating an article since the author didn't even write anything original about the subject and thought that copying the solid source's text would make for a great article because they don't need to change anything because its "perfect the way it is"(read my lips: it's not a way to write an article because you're expected to do research on the subject and provide references for each claim in the articles with of course, your original words). I'm glad the rules on plagiarism have been strengthened to combat articles that haven't had their plagiarism issues be fixed for a long time and pretty much put them up for deletion as soon as it's been discovered and the issue hasn't been resolved.
Also, I don't like trolls who lie about having lost media (some even go so far with fabricated and unnecessary reasons why they don't want to share it; for others, they fake finding the lost media in question), but it's by far one of my least concerns about the wiki.
It's a good thing all the lost media I'm interested in already have articles on the wiki.
