User blog comment:Sambrook the otter/What has happened to the wikia?/@comment-986811-20090929064314

Agreeing with this would probably make me a hypocrite, considering the fact that I put up not one, but two completely non-Redwall stories. But I regret putting those up until this day, and everytime I remember I want to smash myself into a wall. But that's beside the point.

I wasn't impressed at all by seeing that some of the "fanfictions" here had things like guns and humans in them when none of them have anything to do with Redwall at all. And I have to admit, I am sickened by the "anthropomorphic" art going around. My definition of anthro was: animals walking erect, and acting like humans. In short, what the Redwall characters are. I groan whenever I see humans given animal features like tails and whiskers, and when they are called "anthropomorphics".

I'm not sure about the Shoutbox, nobody ever said they could only talk about Redwall-related stuff. They're basically free to talk about whatever they like as long as they abide by the standard "no swearing" rules and such. Like what Zaran said, majority of the users are homeschooled, too young, or are prohibited to get a Facebook(like myself), so this is probably the only place where they can chat freely with others. So we should just leave it alone.

My pet peeve was fanfics with magical stuff and including species that were never mentioned in the series. Okay, maybe they thought of animals that COULD appear in the Redwall series, but I've seen things like dogs(domesticated ones) and lions and tigers, and it's just not right.

And when we had roleplays(this crashed the Wikia down, I didn't enjoy them much myself even if I participated in them), there were mentions of guns, electricity, ninjas, and a lot of other things that are not Redwall. I was relieved beyond words when LordTBT deleted them, because at least the wiki would go back to what it was: an info resource. I admit, I enjoy roleplaying from time to time myself, but doing it here felt so off.

Yeah you can call me a hypocrite now, because I had a couple of blog posts that didn't relate to Redwall, but that is over now and I do think that there is a time and place for everything, whether you like it or not.