Board Thread:Suggestions forum/@comment-26486187-20151127055954/@comment-4750818-20151127220726

LordDainTheAwsome wrote: Today, a trusted wikia member, Aramir, left the wiki. Why? because of the Religion thread. My suggestion is a simple one. A ban on all contraverial and official things (eg. religion, poletics ect ect). If anything comes it will be removed by the first admin who see's it will imediatly get rid of it, and give the person who wrote it a ban threat. This is highly necacery as it is just to out of place and bad for the wiki.

Thank you for reading

 LordDainTheAwsome, Lord of the Ironhills and King under the Mountain  (send a raven!)

What really needs to be done is that you need to fix your spelling. That's a far bigger problem than a few controversial forum threads. Controversy is fine; it doesn't have to lead to argument. If we ban politics and religion from the forum, it won't solve the problem; it'll just be moved over onto some other medium (i.e. the blog posts, page comments, Middle-Earth RP wiki, etc.), where it'll be even more of a problem. Banning controversial topics is against freedom of speech IMO, and it would really open up a whole can of worms.

Why?

Because, if we start banning all "controversial" topics, what's going to happen is that admins and moderators will not agree on what makes a topic controversial. Another problem is: what are the criteria for declaring something controversial? A simple suggestion or discussion can turn controversial according to some. Also, if we start banning "controversial" topics, sooner or later, will come up saying something like "hey, ban anything related to One Direction because I hate their music" (their music is actually pretty poor, but that's another story). That leaves the question...where do we stop? If we kept on going on this road, there'd be very little that you could say on the wiki without getting into trouble.

Really, the best way to deal with this is for you, the users, to change. Act responsibly and maturely, don't get your knickers in a twist about nothing, and all will be fine. Freedom of speech is a great privilege, and use it responsibly.

Glflegolas (admin) Send a Messenger  22:07, November 27, 2015 (UTC)