Thread:Ygjjgyfthfht/@comment-43604881-20190824103531/@comment-366087-20190824115554

"Infinite" is not only a number, it is ALL the numbers…

My best explanation about wikis so far:

Wikis are like countries. Each has its own set of Laws (Rules) and System of Government (Admins and such). What is true of one country is not necessarily true in another, even if "right next to each other" (of similar topic). The rules of one need not be the same, similar, or anything like those of another.

For example, in America and many countries around it, cars are driven on the right side of the road. Yet in England, they are driven on the left side.

Now, with physical countries where it takes time, energy, effort, cost to move between them, our heads often understand these differences may exist. With wikias, there is no such difficulties, so *mentally* we don't expect to find minor to blatant differences between rule-sets.

On top of this, there are the Systems of Government. Some countries are (allegedly) run by democratic process where some or all have a voice, some are governed solely by the whims of a few, to even one individual. Sometimes these individuals are mature minded. Sometimes they are less so.

FANDOM and Staff, in this analogy, are like the United Nations, which not only have their own set of Rules and Governance, but set some as Universal across all wikis. That's the Terms of Use, link at bottom of every page.

According to this "model", Blocks are penalties levied for breaking rules. One country with a certain government might treat an infraction a certain way and with a level of mature-minded leniency, while others come down like a ton of bricks for the slightest cross-eyed reason.

You can to ask Staff to review if something might violate ToU and they'll step in, but with over 300k wikias—with hundreds more created everyday—to oversee, they simply don't have the manpower or manhours to look at *everything*. So they rarely get involved in matters which are "local to a wiki".

No matter the type of wiki, no matter its topic, if Founders or Admins govern harshly, users will stop working there and they will wither away. Wiki fail.