User blog comment:Darkcloud1111/Woof/@comment-6493589-20140729204705

Darkcloud, first of all, titling this blog woof and talking about dogs, though it is you opinion is clearly a stab at Lizzy's Meow blog. If you mean for us admins to take your opinion and ideas seriously, that is a really really bad way to present them.

Next, I responded to your message on my wall specifically asking you drop that, clearly you haven't, so yet again I find myself having to repeat a few things.

The wiki you started on has clearly put a lot of time into making those policies. I can't say for certain but I'm sure that wiki has been around a lot longer then this one and has seen more situations that have driven them to put the policies in place. But as far us unwritten policies, we have all we need. Our Policies combined with the Wikia terms of use are what we rely on. Blog policies aren't a thing because we don't need them. It's obvious that a user can do what they want with them and if what they want is causing other users offence or obstructing work here then it's reported and dealt with. It's mostly common sense. We don't aim to run this place as a dictator ship with rules restricting everything, it's a community made by users for users.

It takes time to do things mainly due to the avaliability of our staff, we try to get everyone's opinions on things before setting them in motion, some Admins are not on as often as others and that slows things down a little, and for the record, we're human, we sometimes forget things. We often don't fix what isn't broken because we'd rather spend our time fixing the broken things.

Examples like our wiki's coding, it was servearly messed up my Rain and Grif is always trying to fix that first and foremost. Also things like this, users acting out and refusing to accept an admin's ruling no matter how many other admins agree, they take up the time we put into fixing the wiki.

Now to repeat the Varzan situation.... "a user was banned for giving his opinion by calling another user out on her opinion" Varzan's opinion was harassing the user, he was doing just what I'd hilighted to the whole wiki is wrong. He got blocked for it because he was on a final warning from grif after the repeated swearing at people. Yes, Lizzy posted somthing potentialy flame baiting. But the users who rose to that are also at fault, rather then responding to the "bait" and just escelating the problem. You should have contacted one of us expressing your distaste with it. Please do not raise this again as I'm getting a little tired of repeating it.

We'd rather not have a long unreadable list of rules as that would become like Terms and Conditions of most products, skipped just to get on with it. It will cause the opposite effect where more people get in trouble due to not knowing the core rules. And as for those long lists.... common sense dear, most people have it. If it needs further defining then someone can help define it for you, and until you need that there's not much point in a 100+ item list of dos and don'ts.

Fan content: Speculation is to be kept to a bare minimum, all cases of speculation are to be labeled as such using the speculation template. Speculation must be moved to the forums or blog posts. RWBY_Wiki:Editing_Policies

New pages: If making a new page please refer to others of its type for the layout, the best way would be copying the other page over and replacing its content. If no pages of its type (or similar to it) exist, contact a staff member for advice. RWBY_Wiki:Editing_Policies

What to put on a page: [See above]

What is offencive, spam, harassment? If you can get to wikia you can get to google.

Spam, noun 1. irrelevant or unsolicited messages sent over the Internet, typically to large numbers of users, for the purposes of advertising, phishing, spreading malware, etc.

offensive, adjective 1. causing someone to feel resentful, upset, or annoyed.

harassment,noun aggressive pressure or intimidation. (and in the terms of causing Varzan's ban, he was pressuring the user into removing/moving her blog)

Now if you're quite done I'd like for this to be over with. I apologise for getting condescending there.