Board Thread:Site Policy/@comment-4620507-20130621071053/@comment-23780813-20130629045018

LOLSKELETONS wrote: I would agree with you about this seemingly "minor" offense, but the thing about the Article Listing is that it's sort of needed to keep all of this site's sort of all together in one place. Unlike other wikis, this wiki uses very, very little linking to other pages within content pages (as content pages are primarily individual stories rather than a piece of the same whole), so pages can get very easily lost. Unlike most wikis, we NEED a sort of "table of contents" of all (article) pages, and we rely on all users to help make sure that table of contents is constantly updated.

Even though the rules are posted literally EVERYWHERE, it's kind of hard to blame new users for not knowing them and the repercussions for not following them upon just joining the site (both for themselves and for the site as a whole). I know, I know "IGNORANCE OF THE RULES IS NO EXCUSE". But most of these people are still acting on good faith.

So, while I agree that blocking them is sort of overkill, I also recognize that they are sort of adding on to a HUGE pile of work for everyone else.

Maybe if we used bots to update the Article Listing instead.... I am currently writting a bot for this. there is only one teeny tiny problem. I have no server...