Board Thread:Special Admin Messages/@comment-35439862-20180817172725

Hello.

I'm just going to get straight to the point; This wiki seems to have defective rule systems.

So that's why the rules are going to be changed. Starting with the following:

1: Repent trials are no longer supported.
I've been thinking about this for a day now.

Repent trials were originally made so that permabanned users could have another shot at contributing to the wiki by going through a test of hard restrictions and monitoring. Nowadays, repent trials are just hard to organize. The restrictions for repent trials seem to be quite strict, also. Sure, some people might think I'm joking since I CREATED repent trials and their restrictions, but a creator can destroy their own creation if it's bad enough.

Only five or six users have had/is having a repent trial at this very moment (EnderChas, Archyve, CannibalCarrot, etc.) I think only one has succeeded.

Repent trials seem to be overstretched and pointless. This is why repent trials are going to be fully removed some time near September 20, 2018. From that point forward, offences will be punished just by bans/discussions.

Why September 20? Well, let's not forget the one user who is currently facing a repent trial: EnderChas. The things Chas did during the Chas/Minefictions war were appalling and unacceptable. I'll leave a short list for newcomers:


 * Got two administrators of this wiki permanently FANDOM banned (Yoshfico123, BlitzFire34)
 * Dragged the war forwards for two months, possibly longer.
 * Got three wikis involved, making the war's DEFCON rating a DEFCON 1 (The DEFCON rating is also dead; the smaller, the more intense the war is).
 * Caused massive panic and outrage in the wikis, like all wars do.
 * Caused lots of retirements due to his extreme negative reputation and the war itself.
 * Commited multiple offences and got away with them prior to the actual war.
 * In eccense; Pretty much forced us to give him an unban.

...Yeah. You get the idea.

Like I said above, Chas' wrongdoings are just too much to let go unpunished. And since the user is currently retired, I was thinking that Chas would be the one to recieve the first, and last, permanent repent trial.

On September 20th, Chas' account will be closed. This will mark the end of repent trials, and they probably won't ever be implemented again.

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I think I said enough/

2: Believing in creepypastas will be less punishable.
Due to a recent talk with Karl, who was a creepypasta believer, I began to look at the front page once more.

And I thought; "Why do creepypasta believers have to get a permaban again? Sure, they're stupid for believing something clearly fake, but is it really worthy of a permaban?"

This is why believing in creepypastas will be less punishable than before. It will still be punishable, but not as much as before. First offences will not result in a permaban, second offences, probably not, third, maybe and fourth, yes.

This makes it so that we can both punish people for believing in something fake, and at the same time we can not completely kill off half of our income.

...That's all that needs to be said. You already get the idea.

3: The wiki style will be changed.
The classic red and black is good enough on it's own, and, let's honest, probably doesn't need to be changed, but I thought it would be nice to take it one step further by changing it to the sign of the bee; yellow and black. Yellow and black is a good mix and it does great as a eye-appealer.

The font? I'm not too sure about changing the wiki's font, since we've had it for quite a while now and it's already good enough as is. Plus, I'm not sure if Daddy Deadlock would approve of a font change.

This is why I'm going to ask for community input. And, of course, to prevent sockpuppetry, I'm going to use the Support, Neutral and Oppose templates implemented by our lovely friend Popstar.

Oh, and those will also be changed, I guess.

So, type if you support the font change,  if you don't care or just feel genuine about it or  if you oppose the change.

You can also suggest what the font should be changed to. For example:

 Georgia.

So? What are you waiting for? Go down and spread your opinion!

4: The rule system will be revamped and recycled.
I still think that some rules are unnecessary and/or over/underexplained, so I am going to change the rule board on the home page. Additionally, I am also going to add specific rules for commenting and communicating in threads.

I thought that I'm also going to ask for community input for this change, too. So, You can also suggest in your reply what we should add and remove. Your reply should now look something like this:

'' Georgia.

For #4, I think that the advertising rule is pointless, and we should add a rule for highlighting threads. We should also compress the believing in creepypastas rule and the inappropriate rule into one.''

And if you're asking that if the example is going to be put into effect, then maybe. The highlighting rule will also be put into effect.

Oh, that reminds me...

5: Guaranteed rule changes (Necroposting, highlights, etc.)
Necroposting will now become more punishable. Granted, it wasn't necessarily too punishable to begin with, but now that I'm seeing more and more people post on dead/inactive threads, I thought it would be wise to prevent that and to fix that up.

Necroposting will only be considered if a thread is inactive for thirty days or more, in which an automated script would close the thread in that case. It can still be frowned upon, and punished, if done earlier. Ten days, for example.

Regarding the highlighting rule. Normally only Discussion Moderators and above can manage threads and highlight them. This isn't enough to prevent it from becoming it's own rule, though, so highlighting threads will also become more punishable.

Any unnecessary thread that has been highlighted will have it's highlight taken down, as well as the user who created it subject to punishment, ranging from talking to permabanning. Permabanning may seem kind of excessive for a false highlight, but nothing's impossible.

...

Well, I'm done.

All of these changes, excluding #1 and the font part of #3 (which will be put into effect probably next week, or September 20) will be put into effect within the next 24 hours.

What do you think about these changes? Do you think they're bad or do you think they're for the good of the wiki?

...Anyways, thank you for reading this long post that took me almost 45 minutes to write, and I hope you have a good day. I might post more, but I don't know for now.

Goodbye. 