Board Thread:Wiki Discussions/@comment-25075055-20140603064633/@comment-28861328-20140603200448

IndxcvNovelist wrote: Speysider wrote: Plenty of other wiki's on Wikia have had their rights slightly tweaked to make it more manageable, I think this is a viable solution. Simply banning people because they remove threads and posts is an abuse of power and is not a solution whatsoever.
 * 1) Banning people for hiding posts is harsh, unnecessary and is power abuse.
 * 2) This has nothing to do with articles, so I have no idea why you think it has.
 * 3) No we would not need to redesign anything whatsoever.
 * 4) All this needs is a sysop to contact Wikia and ask them to update the permissions.

I read the thread again, so I have a question. How is blocking people for hiding threads a power abuse? It's the same for blocking people for vandalism, right?

I'm curious about the logic behind that too.

I mean, I agree, normal users shouldn't be able to just willy-nilly hide/remove threads, but why is treating that like what it is (vandalism) an "abuse of power"?

I think its high time we give up that chase and start giving actual reasons why certain things should be a certain way. "Power abuse" would be banning a user for speaking out on a forum/talk page/what have you. "Power abuse" would be deleting threads because the sysop in question didn't like the user who created it, or did it because they just hated the forums and wanted to screw people over. "Power abuse" would be protecting an article to prevent other users from adding information that a sysop against.

But blocking users for misusing their ability to remove threads, when, as you yourself stated, Speysider, is a problem we're already knee deep in? That is not an abuse of power whatsoever. Not even anywhere close.

Carry on.