Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-1251315-20140820175011/@comment-1251315-20140908183914

TheUltimate3 wrote: To add, me and Omni tried to establish some rules and the like to prevent a lot of the things you yourself are constantly on me for not moderating. You told us that would stifle creativity and ruin the fledgling community. So there is that. The rules Omnibender were trying to implement would have made people not bother to actually post and pushed people to keep going to Naruto Answers, as he even admitted himself that he would "be as draconian as he saw fit". The rules we have are decent, yet are not being enforced (the reason I created in the first place: so that people would be aware of the forum rules) because I don't think anyone has actually read them in the first place. I've always said, point me to an actual problem and I'll be happy to address it. But I will not go into each and every post and stare at every editors posts for something that may or may not be wrong with it because quite frankly I don't even know the criteria of what you consider to be spamming. The threads with 100+ posts tend to be the ones needing moderation. At best, it's really a case of merging double posts (eg, the same user making multiple posts in a row) and removing pyramid quotes (like the post by Munchvtec above), and closing down discussions which are nothing but flame wars and well off-topic.

@Windstar: I very rarely contribute to the wiki as a whole, most of my time is spent keeping the forums clean by merging double posts, removing useless messages and removing pyramid quoting: if I'm not moderating the forums, I'm making sure images are tagged with the appropriate 720p/1080p upload templates. Whenever I see a talkpage discussion spamming my feed, I just go into said talkpages to make a warning and tell people to lighten up or risk being reported.