Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-25786152-20160105222048/@comment-452-20160107172302

Leadblast wrote: I used that word according to its definition. To refer to a fictional character (not even an actual person) which definitely has at least some of these traits (female, promiscuous).

The connotations to this word ARE vulgar and pejorative, IF AND ONLY IF used out of context.

Had I used it as an insult in the thread, to refer to someone who was/is NOT a slut, I would certainly deserve a ban, and you would have been 100% right.

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Now, if the administrator decides to forbid certain words, even those that would otherwise have been legal, and he doesn't even directly change the rules for everyone to know, he should have at least warned a possible transgressor before proceeding with a full ban. You are 100% correct.

Contextual use of such words is allowed by Wikia.

Unfortunately, individual admins are allowed to do whatever they want, without warnings, without rules.

If a wiki decides to implement language restrictions above and beyond the TOU, then they should write a policy page about it. Unfortunately, they are not required to, and many don't, because many admins assume that the rules as they see them in their head are facts known to everyone.

To combat this type of assumption, I've actually written up a policy page to do the opposite: I specified all words which might otherwise be assumed to be banned, to specifically address the fact that they're allowed in context. ("Slut" is one of those words, btw.)

Yes, the ban is unjust, but Wikia doesn't care about justice, and the only things you can do about it has already been mentioned in the first reply to this thread.

Incidentally, despite the TOU seemingly forbidding insults, Wikia also allow users to openly insult one another (off Community Central), but I've never been called "slut", so I can't report whether they allow that to be used towards other users.

While I don't want to repeat the things that Wikia Staff have allowed people to call me, in September 2014, I reported an admin for saying:
 * "Learn your place, shitbug."
 * "Can't you just fuck off, shitbug?"
 * "Do us a favor and fuck off."
 * "Don't you asswipes have anything better to do than fuck up good work?"
 * "Don't you motherfucking shit brained asswipes have anything better to do than fuck up good work?"

And was told: "we don't have global rules for bad language. It's up to the admins and community to decide the level that's right for their wikia."

Meanwhile, Wikia Staff described my use of the words "irresponsible" or "incompetent" as being "over the line".