Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-31256456-20190830060531/@comment-28112409-20190901182201

We don't allow wikians to do what they want. We don't let them vandalize, we have forum rules and guidelines specifically noting what they shouldn't do. That's not letting them "do what they want", that's providing rules, they abide by them, and staff intervene when one of those is breached.

Saying something happens whether I like it or not is nothing short of ignorant, that's not how behavior works in a given community. Mods and staff following the rules is not dictatorship, it's bloody moderation. Even in discord servers, you can find mods and admins assigned with the task of disallowing off-topic and unrelated commentary.

No, tendencies do not spawn out of nowhere like that, especially in a website with a solidified purpose revolving around a game title. Whether anyone likes it or not, a wiki is ultimately still a database for a given topic, arguing otherwise is delusion.

The reason they developed that tendency to do that is because staff control it about as well as a substitute teacher, of course they'll end up doing "what they want" because there's no effort whatsoever to define and reinforce the original purpose of the wikia. Punishment by aversive stimulus discourages an action from being done, reinforcement by literally making whole boards for an action will obviously encourage it, it's simple psychological concepts. What is so difficult to understand about that?

Any wikian that is here for what the wiki is actually for will continuously do wiki-related things, obviously. Otherwise, they wouldn't do so, they'll just stray into other irrelevant topics. Especially, and I'll keep repeating this till it gets through your thick skulls, when the wiki staff literally promote said activity by making entire boards for them.

Rules have a significant influence on the expressed behavior in a forum. Remove all the rules and tell all the staff to just not do their job at all, look at how the wiki changes.