User blog comment:JDTM/Bye/@comment-5392675-20181026165154

I'm sorry to see you go, but I feel the need to defend this Wiki's policy.

"Yes i know that some things users do for "fun" is considered as breaking some rules."

No one is saying anything about not allowing "fun". But, just as is the case in real-life society, there is a place for "fun" and a place for relevant discussion. Fun can be had in the Forum or in blogs or whatever. It would be much more conducive to hold these discussions in these alternative spaces than to clog up the article comments sections with off-topic conversations that do not add to the main topic.

"But has anyone else thought that maybe you could be more polite when telling people they're doing something wrong?"

I have yet to see anyone be explicitly rude in telling someone to not break the rules. As far as the comment warnings go, I think the template we use is pretty impersonal and gets the point across without being overly rude or b**chy. As for other users, please provide evidence as to these "rude" reactions to rule-breaks.

"So why get so angry at someone for accidentally "breaking a rule" they didnt know about?"

For the record, it is very explicit what the rules are -- people are literally told to read the Wiki rules, and commenting rules are present right above the commenting box. We are not censoring discussion, instead we are encouraging discussion in other places of the Wiki so that the main topic of discussion is not diverged from. Letting everyone make their own tangential conversations will steer the topic far away from the article's topic, and this would be a mess that can be avoided by having those discussions in other channels, e.g. the Forum.

No one is "angry" -- people always think the admins are angry for comment rule breakers. The fact is, comment warnings are 1/3 as serious as a formal warning. If the comment rule is only broken once, that hardly equates to a warning and we are more than willing to forgive one infraction, even two. But three is no longer an "accident".

Ignorance should not be a defense for misbehaviour.

"When i came back i was swarmed with negative vibes and surrounded by all the mean comments i was seeing - even from admins."

If you are speaking about me being "mean", I won't defend myself by saying anything I say comes from love -- that is facetious and false. Instead, I will say that the culture of this Wiki has shifted towards a more stan-based community that I think most of us are in tune with. Some people find this new culture mean or malicious, but I don't think there have been any mean-spirited or direct personal attacks. No, saying someone has no taste is not a personal attack.