User blog comment:ArtistOfTheDaleks/Before I Leave, I have a few questions./@comment-26116199-20200202075153

You're failing to realise one simple thing: these restrictions are on such simple things. Overloading characters, Kekkei Genaki spamming, power stacking, improper formatting — why are you chalking these BARE MINIMUM requirements for creation, to extreme quality control? This has NOTHING to do with actual quality control, since if we truly decided to crack down, there'd be less than 4000 articles on this site.

What people make is a reflection of the people running the site and the credibility of a site. An indication also of what we expect from our users if they choose to contribute to the site. I've been a member of this wiki for 10 years and a hunter-nin for 5 years now: so I've seen the site literally at its absolute worst — and our adherence to the MoS over the last year has clearly led to a site wide improvement in terms of article quality. The ends justify the means. The decision to eliminate certain troublesome articles removed that damaging influence and has effectively made it such that no users get a hall pass because of longevity.

The admins have never been adverse to criticism; users have always been free to recommend and suggest things both here and on the Discord. Say whatever you want about the staff but it's always the same people with the same complaints. The same troublemakers. I've also never seen any opposition to these rules except from THREE people, out of which two have already expressed their views on this blog.

Since this seems to be an indirect insinuation that the admins are ruling with an iron fist — which I strongly disagree with. Even now your blogs aren't shut down, even now people are encouraged to speak up about things they don't like. How are you still assuming that there have been MAJOR overhauls to the Manual of Style? Literally no such thing has happened, it's pretty much the same MoS it's always been.

The difference is that you people never read it and actually took liberties before we started ENFORCING them without PREJUDICE.

Any changes to the MoS are always announced, no matter how minor, and the community has always been free to discuss it. The fact that nobody but you and the esteemed fellow in the comments have chosen to hit out of them is rather telling.