Thread:Thailog/@comment-1037137-20130824023712/@comment-1037137-20131005083111

Well with all due respect, people had been allowed to talk for this long without fear of such strict discipline. And as much as it's an encyclopedia, it's a forum for the fandom, and one of the fandom's primary online locales. I think that by limiting it to the degree that it has been, you take away a part of what it is, not to mention seriously clamping on the right these users otherwise should have to speak, forcing them to rely on stuff like EmailUser or IRC which are cumbersome and such. I think it could drive away users if it goes too much further, these rules are becoming difficult to bear with. It's not just an encyclopedia. No, it may not be a social networking site, but you can't separate socializing and talking. Talking IS socializing, and vice versa.