User blog comment:KommunistKoala AP/Personal Changes I Would Make to This Community/@comment-25802715-20151111022120

After reading this blog carefully, I do have some points to make.

While for the most part, I agree with most of suggestions you made.It sounds like you want a more clear detailed rules. From what I observed, it seems people lack the ability to solve problems after discovering someone who broke the rules. (Example: people accused someone breaking the rules. Doesn't show proof because they didnt' know they had to).

Therefore, if we make a guidebook on this Wikia that focuses more on what you've mentioned above, I think this would help solve the problem rather than creating large amount of rules. The more rules we have without guidance, the more questions we will have about the rules. I suggest a guidebook instead because  some of the suggestions you listed above are situations where it depends on what's happening. For example, someone asks you to stop talking about "History", "Map Games." Does that trigger something? Maybe a guidebook will help users guide through these situations.

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Now you must be wondering why did I mention "large amount of rules"? Your next point was that

" Instead of being smack in the middle of the users face when they go on the main page, they have to instead scroll down to see the rules. An admin told him they will be blocked for it, but the user said they didn't know about the rule. "

Well similiar to the ToU. It is all the way at the bottom of the Wikia. Although when the user registers on the Wikia, as you may know, some people just check it off without reading it. I don't know why. Too long, too lazy, we won't know. They are responsible for their actions and they should be aware that communities will always have rules. Just like school policies.

Not knowing the rules? It's more of an excuse to get away with it because I've seen that excuse nearly every SINGLE time. Although I do agree it happens; however, when people register they must agree to the ToU which includes:

 "  It is your responsibility to regularly check this page to determine if there have been changes to these Terms of Use and to review such changes."

Maybe they won't get punished for not knowing, they will be warned though. If people are already breaking the ToU because they didn't know  or they didn't read it, what makes you think they will read the local Wikia Rules? And then they say they didn't know? If it happened on chat, keep in mind that when users join the chat, the welcome message reminds the users about the rules(which links to the mainpage's header). Therefore, it is their responsiblity to read the rules.

Although I do agree that the main page needs to be reorganized, I wouldn't count on that excuse to get away with breaking the rules. And about it being unorganized, that's just one thing. Don't get me started for the large amount of pages that still have candidates for Deletion for more than a month.That is my view.

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Extra Point: Mark me if I am wrong, but other than the sockpuppet local rule, many of the violations are violations of the ToU or are spam.

Mostly these two: After checking my log, harassments(inappropriate content), spam, and discrimination was a large category.
 * Abuse, harass, threaten or intimidate other Wikia users;
 * Post or transmit any content that is obscene, pornographic, abusive, offensive, profane, or otherwise violates any law or right of any third party, or content that contains homophobia, ethnic slurs, religious intolerance, or encourages criminal conduct;

Last but not at least, since I'm not the owner or admin, I can't simply organize the rules because it clashes with certain areas where only admins and above can edit it. Example: The Welcome Message in the Chat. Additionally, I'll also have to discuss it with the rest of the admins/mods.

Regards,

CorrosiveDragon