Thread:AskaniSon/@comment-3434793-20120802054514/@comment-100066-20120805130614

It would be fantastic if you would warn users yourself. You are a user of this site and a contributor to this site. You have every right to use the site the way it was intended and not be annoyed by people who are just here to mess around. You are well within your rights to tell other people to follow the rules and policies here.

I am an administrator here, but I am not the teacher, the boss, or the dad. I am a user just like you. I have an extra set of tools, but the influence belongs to all of us. It is much more powerful when users come together to stand up for their site rather than having an administrator run around banning people. I only want to block people if they refuse to cooperate.

Of all the people I have spoken to in the last week, I only had to ban four of them. The rest of them agreed to clean up their language, post things that are more interesting, etc. You are right; this is a community, not a dictatorship.

I think that the Marvel_Database:Guidelines do address this in the section called “Stay on Topic”. It clearly states our goals and that we are Marvel focused (hint, hint, Frank West…). Do we need more specific rules than that? Do we really have to make a rule that says, “Don’t be annoying”? I would hope that people would see the effect that their pointless posts are having on the community and they would change their behavior on their own.

See…this is the way blog posts are supposed to work; good conversation between users.