User blog comment:Sannse/Welcoming New Contributors/@comment-25648422-20160725100517

Yet another wonderful blog from Sannse. Thanks for writing this!

Another thing I would like to share: assume good faith. Just because a user hops into a chat with zero edits, that does not mean they came there with malicious intentions. That's a problem I sometimes see. As a mod in the Plants vs. Zombies Wiki, I highly oppose having a certain amount of edits (mainspace or not) to get to chat. I often tell users in chat not to bite newcomers. I have been in wikis to know which newcomers really have malicious intentions and which newcomers don't intend to cause harm. And sometimes, these wikis I am sometimes in are those who had histories of being raided before.