User blog comment:Bourgeoisie/Little rant/@comment-5772846-20150410223103

I'm seeing a lot of people laughing at the users who are comparing policies to laws in the comments, and that's not cool.

Policies and rules aren't laws, and moderators aren't police officers. When users compare parts of a wiki to these things, they aren't saying that those things are those things. They're just pointing out that in most, if not all, serious situations in life where you've broken rules, saying "I didn't know" wouldn't really be enough to protect you. It's a terrible excuse. What's the point of rules, then? We should obviously go easy on newcomers, and I think really that's what this blog is about - not biting their heads off for breaking a minor rule. Common sense does apply. But rules also apply. They're there for a reason. You can't play nice guy to everyone. If you're here, chatting or using the wiki, you're expected to follow the rules. That's why they're even here to begin with...

Anyway. My two cents. Feel free to disagree. I'm just saying, if you're going to say "don't steamroll new users for not reading the policy", then you should not be reacting so harshly to users comparing this to laws in a country. :P