Board Thread:Administrative/@comment-1713281-20130730145643/@comment-61022-20150627132819

I think that's the only way we can "force" people to read their walls. The way that I see it is if they aren't regularly checking their message wall (especially now since we have the notification bar at the top) and replying to serious inquiries, a ban on edits is the only way you're going to elicit a response.

It's been my experience that most people who are just going to ignore the rules and ignore messages are also the type who are going to flip out and scream bloody murder.

I've found that more often than not people like that don't tend to offer much of value. They spend most of their time nitpicking over power ratings, or the definition of a character's powers and other trivial facts. They never provide anything that I think is of value, IE: filling in missing issue summaries, adding to character histories, that sort of things. Those rare exceptions that they are doing those things, it's some of the worst additions or its entirely focused on whatever came out that week.

Frankly, I am not a fan of these Laissez-faire users who squawk the loudest and contribute the least. They aren't serious about the Wiki to begin with. It's all fun and games to them anyway, so I have no problem being a little heavy handed (like blocking edits) when they don't listen to the rules.