Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5714457-20151028143114

Hello all. I hope your day is well, because there have been some dark moments as of recently involving threatening users/chat mods and what-have-you. This update here is just to give you an idea of what's changed in order to help prevent these issues from happening again.

First off, two new chat mods have been appointed recently in the form of Derpurple and ImagoDesattrolante, after a discussion on who would be the most suitable candidates for the position as well as a call-to-arms in voting them in. We hope that they will be able to keep the chat a safe place for the users among the already existing chat mods and administrators that frequent, and I myself wish them the best of luck in this role.

Second is a new change to the rules to help prevent this sort of incident from multiplying in the future. Threatening users in any way - be they normal, administrator, chat-mod or whatever - is now deemable for an instant ban from the wiki of 1 week (or a permanent ban, depending on the severity of the issue, or if death threats are involved, which weren't allowed to begin with). This is a wiki for possible Death Battles as well as entertainment, and thus should not really be a warzone to throw threats like this at any user whatsoever.

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and apologies to those who feel that this change is a bit sudden, but given circumstances and how vulnerable the place can sometimes get when admins and chat mods aren't watching the site, I feel that this change is somewhat of a necessity.

Thank you again, and happy Halloween. 