User blog comment:Obi the LEGO Fan/Policy discussion/@comment-5381241-20140117150314/@comment-4041224-20140117163709

Oh my, some things here are pretty messed up, especially some that I haven't noticed myself before. Let's do this.

General Policy:

Using the same rules as the MB's: 

* Personally, I believe that things such as "Don't pretend to be another user" aka "Don't impersonate" should not be included in the policy, because heck, it's obvious you shouldn't be doing that, and if people do, then it's not because they're unfamiliar with the rules but rather because they don't care.

Bad language:

Couldn't care less about swearing, but some people obviously do. While I'm fine with not promoting the use of actual swears, things like TSA mentioned as well as things like "Oh my god", "what the hell" etc should be allowed because this is not a Christian community, whether you like it or not, and every person who is not offended by this should have the right to use it as much as they like. (Also those are allowed in guidelines for PG-13, thus every member of the community should be mature enough not to start crying when someone else employs either of these expressions.)

Trolling and teasing:

I don't agree in the slightest with the example TSA has given, but yes, spreading negativity excessively is not welcome. However, the decision if something is ban worthy or not is up to the moderator who is dealing with the situation on chat as the rules cannot be specific enough.

Spam:

Don't see why this should be a huge issue, I've seen everyone who did serious spamming receiving their respective punishment in the last months, so that's working well enough as is. Also up to the moderator, that star isn't just for decoration.

Flame war topics:

Just no at this. I've seen a lot of people shouting "NO POLITICS" in my face after I made a harmless remark about basic economic theories or something similar, it's just ridiculous at this point. If a flame war escalated, sure, go ahead to stop it or kick / ban the responsible users. Don't hinder friendly discussions.

User requesting you to stop something yadda yadda:

Kind of agreeing with you on this, no admins required. Every person who is mature enough to get CM should be capable of dealing with that, also unreasonable requests can be classified as trolling, which I've covered above.

Dupes:

I've said that impersonation should be removed before, as for dupes, yes. Nice rule, even though it is covered by the global Wikia policy already, you can't stress it enough. It hasn't been done a lot as of late, but meh. All in for that.

Logs:

This used to be done a lot more, guess we can live without it, if someone removed the rule now nobody would even care.

Responsibility for your account:

YES. Seriously, seen so many people trying to circumvent a ban for something by pretending they got hacked, it's really becoming old.

Blogs:

Same rules as before apply here, I don't really see a need to specify even further. Would kind of like to see the part about profanity elaborated, because IMO that's fine as long as it isn't a direct insult or doesn't violate any other points of the policy.

Chat Policy:

Viewpure:

I suppose that's better than no YT at all, even though I don't force you to go read comments by posting a video.

Respect and stuff:

Towards trolls? No.

Censoring:

Whatever.

Personal Information:

Covered above, I believe. General agreement with what TSA said.

Controversial issues: 

Covered above.

Spamming:

Covered avove.

Non-English languages:

I really couldn't care any less about this one. Guess we can keep it.

Requesting to stop:

Covered above.