User blog:ClericofMadness/I shouldn't have to repeat myself... (CATEGORIES RULE)

...but hey, here I am, repeating myself.

''' DO NOT ADD A WHOLE BUNCH OF MADE-UP, UNNEEDED, OR PREVIOUSLY NON-EXISTENT CATEGORIES TO PAGES. DO NOT DO IT. '''

One user tagged a story with all the categories he could find, one of which SITE MAINTENANCE. Seriously. Apparently I have not made it clear enough about this. Obviously this point is not being read in the rules.

One month to anyone who makes me or any other editor clean up any amount of BS categories.

I am tired of seeing new articles with 10 categories that are worthless and made up, and then three legit.

Seriously. That is creating unneeded work, and it's POINTSGAMING, which is a bannable offense.

This is a WIKI. You should be editing for the benefit of everyone, not to get all the badges as fast as possible. True, there were issues with this in the past, but they were mostly mitigated by the sheer volume of USEFUL CONTENT that came out of it. That, and I was predisposed and all the other admins quit for the most part. Use of that in an argument for anything in support of category spamming or pointsgaming is hereby rendered null and invalid. (That's a RULE now!)

This is an official rules post. Ignorance of the rules is no excuse.

If you break the rules and get banned, you have the right to remain silent. Any whining you do can and will be ignored/held against you in the court of LOL.