User blog comment:AmazingAncientWorld/Some rules repressive: too much restriction on freedom of speech./@comment-27191743-20150301041845/@comment-24101790-20150301044341

Starting with the basics, please do not tag your blog with "Staff Blogs" as that is more for this wiki's administration and disseminating important information.

Rule # 1: To prevent users spamming old threads and trying to revive blogs long since resolved. We do this to prevent users from bringing up posts/questions long since answered. For example: one user posted a comment on our first collaborative writing project (that was finished months ago) suggesting a topic for a thread long since done away with. This also saves time as administrations/rollbacks have to check every comment and it can distract from more important issues.

Rule 2: While a more recent rule, this is for severe offenses such as plagiarism, sock puppetry, and massive vandalism. This is also to save time and really to protect the site itself. If a user is going to make multiple false accounts on one site, it's likely they will just move on to one of our sister sites and do the exact same.

Rule 3: That means changing content, altering storylines, or otherwise pointless edits. (changing words into contractions, adding in ellipses, adding irrelevant photos, making region-specific spelling changes, etc.) we keep it nondescript as there are way too many possibilities to go on listing.)

Hope that answers your question.