Hello.
As a wiki contributor and admin, Yandere Sim fan and just someone who likes to go into small and obscure details, I certainly do appreciate that we can ask the developer any questions directly and get a response pretty quickly; and I certainly do appreciate people sharing their insights and interesting trivia about the characters and other aspects of the game.
However, we have to talk.
Lately, a lot of post published under the "sharing trivia" category in discussions... Well, they basically share obvious answers to boring questions, if we're being straight.
Our wiki has an FAQ and Manual of Style pages, both of which have "trivia policy" section. However, I know that many of you never visit these pages, and it would be pretty naive to tell people to read them and expect they'll actually do it, so I'll repeat it here and expand it a little.
What kind of question we do not publish and highly advise against asking in the first place?
Any questions that most likely have a pretty obvious and straightforward answer, given what we know about the character so far. ESPECIALLY if the answer isn't surprising or contradicting what one would reasonably assume it to be.
An example of a boring question would be:
How would Ayano's parents react if she dies?
We already know that Ryoba adores and actively helps her daughter, and Jokichi seems to love her as well, as shown in videos about her childhood. Given this already known information, there're no reasons to assume they would react differently compared to average parents.
This "trivia" doesn't provide any new information an average person wouldn't be able to figure out on their own and doesn't offer any insights into previously unknown sides of their personality.
An example of a similar but more interesting question would be:
How would Osoro's father react if she dies?
We don't have the full picture yet, but so far, we know basically two things: he's physically abusive but at least has been caring enough for her to survive and not end up in a foster house in the first place.
Him being abusive doesn't necessarily mean that he wouldn't care about his daughter's death at all, and I hope most people here are smart enough to be able to figure out that his reaction would probably be far from happiness.
However, there's still some ambiguity about how exactly he feels about his daughter: does he truly not care about her to a certain degree (not high enough to abandon her altogether but enough to not care if she actually dies), or she is important to him, and he simply has extremely questionable parenting standards?
Other examples of boring questions and trivia include:
Average reactions to various situations; if there's no reason to assume that this particular character would react differently to a normal person - and there has to be a really good reason for that - ask AI if you have any doubts.
Minor preferences, like music, food, and so on, if they offer no insights to a character's personality. Some of them are kept for characters who don't have much trivia, but please stop adding more. This is what headcanons are for.
Birthdays - the dev will most likely not even answer such questions, and they won't be added on the wiki (with the exceptions of the rivals, whose birthdays are basically their release dates).
Past crushes of minor NPCs, often times "what club would X join if not their mane one" (it's often pretty obvious if you take a look at their interests).
Questions already answered on the wiki, even if they are not answered in a literal and explicit way.
Another important thing to keep in mind: basic etiquette!
Make the title of the email clear, ideally following this format: "A question(s) about X regarding Y". Or the question itself in the title. Not "hello", not just "a question", not anything else that doesn't make it clear what the topic of the email is.
Don't ask too many questions at once, and yes, "one" question about all rivals/some other group is not "one" but actually 5, 10 or however many characters it involves questions.
If you have any doubts, ask an AI first and then decide if the answer is worth asking or most likely gonna be the same but shorter or a suggestion to ask an AI.
If your question(s) is ignored or answered "rudely" (I've never seen any actual insults in the screenshot - only slightly annoyed at the behavior responses, and I find it immature to take annoyance with your behavior as a personal attack), please keep in mind that you're not the first and not the last person with this kind of email and certainly not the only annoyance. This problem started back at 2015, as you may know from Yandere Simulator article, and there're no fool-proof ways to filter such e-mails.
And last but not least, for everyone who's adding the trivia to the articles: please, pay attention to the text as a whole. Do not shove the trivia in the "trivia" section without examining the article first and making sure there're no other, more appropriate places to put it, and avoid making a whole new paragraph for only a few sentences. Read the actual text, see where it fits best, summarize with other information if needed and possible, make a small analysis without stepping into headcanons territory if you're feeling confident.
It's not a requirement, but it takes off the load from other contributors.
Thank you for your attention.
I apologize if I sound too stern or somehow rude in this post, but it has been something that annoyed me and other admin team members for quite a while now.
And if anybody is wondering, the next recap is planned for midsummer.
