Board Thread:Policies/@comment-31722073-20181113022211/@comment-3361105-20190125020544

Koavf wrote: Well, I for one am glad we finally have rule by fiat. Thanks. If it's any consolation, we never made any illusions to the contrary. Policy is and has always been decided by admins; suggested by users.

Despite my some-time efforts to update old policy pages, we have been functional in terms of enforcing policies, by focusing on the practical side of maintaining good categorization, and a certain standard of quality. The rest is mostly common sense.

The vandalism policy is unneeded. We don't need a document explaining why we would remove spam or nonsense from pages. They don't belong on pages. Simply stating the definition of vandalism - deliberately mischievous or malicious destruction or damage of property - should suffice. If, by consensus, the admins should all agree that using the word "fuck" as an intensifier is not malicious destruction or damage - then it isn't.

Likewise, if - with new policy suggestions brought to our attention by our userbase - the admins don't feel confident that it's a good decision to make the change, we'll explain why, to the best of our ability, and if no more convincing counter-argument can be made - we're not obligated to make the change.

That said, in this case, we have certainly suggested compromises and alternative approaches, in line with a more moderate (and flexible) perspective on the naming conventions. The fact that those compromises and alternatives amount to a "no" for you - whose comparatively extreme position to simply do away with them altogether - isn't evidence that we're obstinate - it's evidence that you are.

Such is mango.