Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment--20150814190019/@comment-26402117-20150815140025

Listen, the moment people are allowed to swear, we will become a 4-chan/sub-reddit of questionable nature, not a dedicated commmunity of editors in a fanbase who actually wanna talk about something. We get your frustration Lord Kavepny. You wanna edit while Wikia takes care of domain, accounts and security. But expletives in a comment that does not try to adress the problem is not necessarily a good response. And justifying it after the user apologised is disrespectful to him as he's obeying the rules, Hedgeg.

Hedgeg wrote:

the natural right to Express own rage > any rules of conduct in the community

Stop trying to flame, you can express rage in many ways: "I am enraged" "This is highly dissapointing" all of those are civil without caps or swears; he used the latter. When Shining Armor says "This is a warning." he is not out to ban you, he just wants to not see swears spread across the page. When you join a site, you follow its rules & there is no freedom outside it. This is a community not a group of warring people and that rule maintains that existence and modus operandi.

OK, in any case, could Wikia consider unlocking Mediawiki:Licenses immediately and allowing the custom message tool to send welcome messages in time (hopefully this is possible). I've had users join and they didn't get the message so they started uploading untagged images and one used questionable behaviour in a comment etc. which isn't great.

 Speedit   ♞    talk   contribs  14:00, August 15, 2015 (UTC)

PS: I'd like to note that Shining Armor would probably message you if he wanted to issue a ban or ban warning directly. Which means that he is understanding of the frustration being a motivation for the message. So the user retains the right to express himself without the expletives.

 Speedit   ♞    talk   contribs  14:07, August 15, 2015 (UTC)