Thread:Jamieb18/@comment-11220539-20190101165715/@comment-4651179-20190329193315

These messages are not meant to be demeaning and they are not written to be passive agressive. They are not a beacon for people to know what mistakes a user has made or to ridicule them. You're assigning them a purpose that is not inherent to them.

Yes, these messages are somewhat automated, but they are not copy-pasted from any help section. They are templates made specifically to be sent to users as messages. This site is big, and we get numerous new users every week. Since we have a pretty strict set of rules, administrators and moderators need to notify new users to follow them. There is a pattern of rookie mistakes new users make, and we found it was easier to create a template than to basically re-type again and again basically the same message to every user. Like I already stated, I typed them specifically to be helpful reminders. They are not a scolding, and no user has previousy expressed to find them in a negative light.

You have been sent two of these type of messages only once each. They have not been reposted in your wall. And if they are, is only because we found it necessary.

As I already explained, these messages also help the administrator team know if a user has been notified of something. They need to stay in a user's message wall. I'm sorry if it bothers you, but understand that we are not ill-intended. On a side not, there is not a private message function in FANDOM.