User blog comment:Imhungry4444/One Piece Wikia Podcast - DP Edition/@comment-972068-20131219051800/@comment-1595565-20131222072216

It was quite different. Some rules were more strict compared to now, while others were more lax. Things sort of just took care of themselves. There were very few conflicts like there are now. Any problems extended more from users' attitudes than things like edit wars or disagreements over how something should be. The system sort of set itself into place. Granted, because of that there were a lot of unwritten rules and procedures, but people picked up on them relatively quickly and without any resistance. We didn't follow rules and guidelines as much as we followed a way of life, if you will. No one really questioned how things operated because everyone was fine with it. It was nice, but on the flipside, we are far more up to date now than we were back then. If a certain editor was away, a weekly update might stack up with the following week's. It was less social (ie fewer blogs) and more editing-focused. People joined because they wanted to contribute first and foremost, not because they liked the blogs. There are definitely parts of that old way of doing things that I missed.