User blog comment:Agent Spy/My thoughts on the wiki/@comment-4855766-20140328021852/@comment-1693968-20140329132359

I do have something to say about your comment on the policies.

Short policies may be great for small wikis. We used to have the same length policy when we were smaller. But as wikis, websites, governments, companies, or anything else grows, it's always necessary to have more comprehensive policies. The definition of concise is short and comprehensive. That definition is relative. The policy should be short for how much needs to be covered, not necessarily short altogether. Our policy is, arguably, concise. We do our best to keep it short, while keep it comprehensive.

Also, a short policy is unrelated to vandalism and blocks. Those users aren't going to read the policy no matter how short it is. Like I said, we used to have a short policy. Yet we got dozens of vandals, and tons of blocks. I run the Google Wiki, which has a very short policy. I've reverted hundreds of vandalism cases, and placed countless blocks. The subject of the wiki has much more of an effect on vandalism than the policy does.