Board Thread:Support Requests - Community Management/@comment-4979063-20200519204659/@comment-4979063-20200519221806

Fandyllic wrote: You also don't have to be nicer to them, because you think they are below the allowed age. Sometimes short blocks can have more influence than any explanation. I'm really strugling with this at the moment and in my eyes I often feel I'm less nice to the younger users than the older ones. Or at least less patient.

This is mostly due various different incidents with young users (vandalism, spam, (pre-)teen drama's. Most of them got banned btw). Sometimes I really have to remind myself I'm talking to young people and that they can think totally different, which is not wrong.

But over the past five years I and a bunch of other users put a lot of time at our wiki. It's a fandom full of stories and a fantastical place with wonderful young writers (I love to see their stories grow), but then you have these (very) young users who can't even be bothered by starting their sentence or writing their name with a capital and end it with a period. It hurts.

I know this young writer in person and she seems to enjoy writing from time to time, but she really doesn't care about anything else (grammar, punctuation, etc).

So yeah...I'm a bit bummed.