User blog comment:Bourgeoisie/Thoughts on user rights and the like/@comment-5510093-20150227032700/@comment-25995065-20150227033837

It's not that you shouldn't enforce the policy or use it as an outline. That's what it's for: an outline. The purpose of it is what moderators are supposed to base their actions on however. A big example of where this is misunderstood is the YouTube/Viewpure policy. The purpose of the policy is to try to prevent users from seeing possibly inappropriate comments below a video. But I see moderators warn for any YouTube link; even ones with comments disabled. In situations like that, there's no point taking any action as a moderator. It doesn't negatively impact the community, the chat, or anyone individually at that point, so that policy wouldn't be necessary to enforce or reference. Policies are meant to keep things healthy and safe, not get in the way of people communicating with each other or contributing to the wiki.