Soyjak Wiki:Undo the Gradingcaust

This topic relates to this very wikiHere be edit wars, censorship and template spam.

The Undo the Gradingcaust movement was a brief protest amongst 'ki users on June 13, 2026 that aimed to undo the effects of the Gradingcaust, which would've involved bringing back topic quality headers. There was a poll on this page, in which the results were 5 for the Gradingcaust and 14 against it.

After Cobblestone resigned and promoted Fenriris to take her position as wiki admin, there was some discussion about what'd happen with the Gradingcaust. Fenriris initially said that the Gradingcaust would be kept in place, saying that it reduced edit warring and discouraged unconstructive editors. However, after two polls in the booru and the wiki talk page which showed overwhelming support for its reversal, Fenriris decided to partially reverse it by only returning 2 templates: {{Brimstone}} and {{Iron}}, which can be used only as indicator for page quality, not topic.

On July 19th, the gradings finally returned in a form of gradingboxes, completely undoing the Gradingcaust.

Arguments

Below were some arguments used by either side.

For

• Quality headers were wiki kulchure and have been around since Soot.
• There was no real reason to remove them anyway, the Gradingcaust solved nothing.
• No one liked it except for a handful of people. The 'caust was originally voted against by a majority of users, but was implemented by cobblestone anyways.
• One singular person suggested it, and even doe everyone else was against it, Cobblestone did it anyways.
• The previous gradings signaled the general opinion of soyteens.
• Only a retard would let xis opinion get influenced by reading a singular template and thats it.
• Edit wars will merely take up entire pages as opposed to the template spam that the Gradingcaust is SUPPOSED to prevent. Even if this would result in users blocked, users could also just be blocked for template spam if the template spam itself was enough to warrant genocide of all quality templates.
• Edit wars still happened nonetheless, disputes happen due to the content of a page, not its grading anyways, making the change worthless.
• Entire pages are biased anyways, removing the templates changes nothing.
• The original idea wasn't even that bad, if the system was just reform to remove useless gradings such as "Margerald", it could have been gemmy
• The Soyjak Wiki was ultimately never meant to be a soulless, rulecucked 'ki like wikipedia with the same stupid policies and fun-hating jannies.

Against

• Quality headers were a prime catalyst for edit wars.
• The 'ki strives to avoid controlling public opinion.
• If the soysphere generally approves or disapproves of a given subject then it'll be obvious in the article itself, making the template redundant.
• Useless nigger protest, as Cobblestone/Fenriris have already stated their opinions on it.
• Quality templates often contributed to template spam on pages, which we here at soyjak wiki usually try to limit.

Compromise

As of July 15, 2026, Fenriris decided on a compromise to bring back {{Iron}}, and {{Brimstone}} but remade as a page quality rating. However, it finally got reversed in June 19, 2026.

Reception

Grading

Most soyteens currently regard Undo the Gradingcaust as a:

GEM

The project gathered massive support after Cobblestone departed. Many people in SoyBooru and the talk page of the project's article gathered to try reversing it. As of currently, the undoing of the gradingcaust has recieved positive reactions and praise for Fenriris.

81,6% of voters wanted to reverse the Gradingcaust while reforming the original grading system to reduce spam associated to it.