Board Thread:Smashpedia Business/@comment-6684591-20180406235310/@comment-6684591-20180411052521

Physicsiscool wrote: I am going to open by saying that if it were not for my being here for 3 years and being a moderator, I would leave in response to these crazy restrictive rule changes.

For the most part I agree with Plasmaster. Firstly I will define rule 3 the way I see it. Off topic threads are okay and will NOT be deleted if they pertain to a person's well being, a current event, a wiki question, or a unique joke. Healthy digression is healthy, it prevents the wiki from becoming stale, and gives our community a soul. Also, there exist designated off topic threads. These are to be left untouched.

Now to tackle location, age, and face reveals. Location is in your bio so why worry about it? Posting an address is another story; don't do it. Age shouldn't be made into a huge problem. It is so hard to legitimately prove someone's age, hell they could be lying. The age thing is just a legal formality that Fandom, like other big companies, has to do. It's similar to how Google asks if you are 13 or older to make a Gmail. Now, to face reveals. These have not been an issue either. Why make them one? They help us get to know one another.

Ever since I joined this place, I loved its relaxed atmosphere. Do we really want to turn into the Pokémon wiki, where everything has to be uber clean? And are we really going to destroy our own fun because of some holier-than-thou, 13 year old stickler who didn't really care about "fixing" our wiki and really cared about ruining our happy community we have built over 3 years? Had he not have came here, we would have carried on just fine.

One more thing, the competitive smash community appeals to the 16-24 demographic and is full of jokers and memers. Ask yourself, would they like us if we changed to be like the Pokémon Wiki?

Cheers everyone,

Physicsiscool

Physics I should make it clear that your definition of rule 3 is precisely what I had in mind. When I said grossly off-topic, I was saying that things that are extremely off-topic should be deleted; so I have no problem with a joke here or there or an update on a person's well-being or a trip they want on, etc. I'm saying that if a person shows up and says "Swan Lake is getting a live action adaptation where the main roles are played by macaroni noodles", then that could be considered extremely unrelated and off-topic and should probably be deleted, but it would ultimately be up to the chat mods to decide. Sorry if I wasn't clear in my initial message, sometimes I go overboard with the vocabulary, its sort of a habit of mine :/