Board Thread:The Official Announcement Board/@comment-4869113-20150717174146/@comment-25152698-20150718055431

Shen Yi wrote: It's unfair to the admins and it's unfair to the users. It's unfair to the admins? The entire point of the position is for maintenance purposes. If an administrator isn't actively enforcing the site policy, which content quality is a large portion of, then they aren't doing their job properly, sad to say.

Berserkchart486 wrote: Problem is with most of those sites is that they don't really have a lot of users because they feel restrained, restricted, and generally helpless if they mess up. But, who is to determine what is a "shitty" page? Who has the right to deduce whether a page is bad, or good. It's all a matter of perspective. We had that happen to us, and like those sites, our activity decreased to extremely low levels. I was pretty sure my space had more activity than us. Anyone with a basic level of education can determine the difference between a good page and a bad page, in all honesty. It's like when a teacher at school grades papers; some students fail while others succeed. If you failed, that means you didn't meet expectations. Which means you try again and get better.

Users come and go, nothing lasts forever. If users leave because they are so easily offended by a mere guideline, then we shouldn't welcome to be apart of our community in the first place. It shouldn't be about how many people we can attract to begin with. Would you rather have 100 "friends"? Or 10 really close friends you can stick it out with? Following similar logic, would you rather have 100 users who make pages with nothing but jutsu, or 10 good pages with depth?

To me, it comes down to the quantity versus quality argument, which is highly controversial. Would you rather contribute to a wiki with many users? Or one with less, but those who place more effort into their craft?

What is a good page? I've spoken to you in private chat about this several times, Serk. We have very similar opinions regarding this issue, yet now you're drifting apart from it. There are authors here who are capable of determining the quality of pages. If there weren't, why is there a review board in the first place?

ShonenChicoBoy wrote: What's wrong with a very easy, very non-discriminatory regulation such as a byte count? The admins don't have to go out of their way to read pointless shit then, and not everyone who asks/doesn't put the effort into their articles will get the "locked" techniques added. Well, that wouldn't do us any good. Some pages are very long, though lack proper grammar, or any real logic, for that matter. Page length is not an issue here on this wiki, several pages exceed the 100k byte mark; it is the quality of that content. Not the quantity.