Thread:Dayne Dariel/@comment-10733658-20160527123046/@comment-10733658-20160527152123

Well, part of the reason with having strict rules and some inflexibility is simply because of the larger volume of people potentially being dealt with. We're a moderately active wiki as far as I can tell, and in many cases Wikis have a large percentage of people on them that are teenagers or otherwise young-ish folks. The internet in general is full of immaturity and people that don't want to discuss things, come to a reasonable agreement, or even bother to see the points of another person.

The percentage of people that can debate reasonably, and handle things well is kind of outnumbered by folks that just want to call each other names and go LOL at each other. So we have to be kind of cautious when dealing with stuff, because you've seen how easy it is for a thread to go from healthy and spirited debate to a bunch of folks just going "LOL ur dumb" at each other. So many folks are just on the internet to, unfortunately, annoy other folks instead of genuinely chatting about stuff.

Sometimes, it's just easier to knock everyone in the head and tell them to move along. ^_^;;