Debate:What would we do without CP?

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Proposition

I may be new here, but I have always wondered. Would RW be able to survive without CP?

Before answering, think about it. WIGO@CP is by far the most trafficked WIGO. "Articles of the Weak" occasionally use CP for our weakly (if that's a word) amusement. Andrew Schafly, TK, Ed Poor (etc.) are sort of like recurring characters in a comedy skit, with them being the butt of the jokes (and I'm not saying that's a bad thing). Those wackos seem slightly less sane than your average inmate of a mental hospital are sometimes accused of being A. Schafly in disguise.

I'm not sure if we would be able to survive if CP self-destructed tomorrow.

So I invite your opinions. That other guy out (talk) 23:13, 18 February 2010 (UTC).

It would be a blow, but with Palin, Beck, Teabaggers,(nuttier) truthers, birthers, Rush, Hannity, YEC etc. there is plenty of stuff to explore on site.--Thanatos (talk) 23:16, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I'd invite Andy over here. Aceⁱ⁹ 23:19, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

There are plenty of us who rarely pay any attention to CP. Without CP we'd lose an odd few members in the short term, but could become more productive in the longer term with a shift of focus. ΨΣΔξΣΓΩΙÐ^{Methinks it is a Weasel} 23:24, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

If WiGO CP vanished tomorrow, I probably wouldn't notice until next week. Take that as you will. --Kels (talk) 23:30, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

I take it to mean you are stupid and unobservant. Aceⁱ⁹ 23:34, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Precisely. --Kels (talk) 23:46, 18 February 2010 (UTC)

Something has happened in the last month which makes me think we are going to be okay. For the first time in as long as I have been here the majority of the regular users are not only saying, but actively working on improving the mainspace. Before it seemed that we mostly paid lip service to the idea, whilst the majority of activity was still WIGO CP, but over the last two months more people were saying it and more people are acting on it. So long story short, you are about 2 months late to this debate. - π 00:19, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

I have the RC menu set to 175 (for some reason that made sense to me at the time), I count 6 CP related edits, although Nx's spree has something to do with that. - π 00:24, 19 February 2010 (UTC)

Don't get me wrong, I'd rather RW stay away from CP related stuff, as it get's a little repetitive, but I'm still not convinced. Something tells me that when CP goes down, so will we. Granted, there's a lot of non-CP related stuff, but, let's face it, a part of our identity is still this CP watching engine. Maybe I'm not seeing something, and like I said, I haven't been here very long. But again, I'm still not convinced. That other guy (talk) 00:57, 19 February 2010 (UTC)