Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-5035900-20151108040946

Hey, Nk here. Unfortunately, the pleasantries stop here, as I'm going to talk about something that has gone on for quite some time on the Wiki and which as of today will stop.

I'd like to think that the second rule of the Wiki "All What-If? Death Battle's are to be respected, content and outcome included. Criticism must be constructive and outcomes you disagree with are to be respectfully disagreed with." has been followed and treated seriously by most of you here. Though every now and then, I've seen some users going out of their way to state how bad a battle idea or battle itself is, whether it be through harsh words or a video or picture whose intent is to degrade them, even going as far as saying an individual user and all of their works are bad.

I've thought of adding to the rules on this matter, but due to this being an occasional and contained issue, I have been all-talk regarding that... until what I saw today.

On a page created by a first-day user, both for the user's own comments and the idea as a whole, comments mocked and ganged up on this person.

"HEY GUYS, JIN IS FROM TEKKEN. HELP ME MAKE THE PAGE." and "Did you guys know that Jin is from Tekken?", mocking the users own comments.

"This match is stupid and makes no sense", mocking the user's match-up.

"...nobody thinks this battle is a good battle. So Get out and think of better ideas, loser." and "Shut the hell up, loser.", which frankly needs no words.

There was plenty more vile to be read, but now I'll just cut right to the chase: entirely unacceptable. It doesn't matter if one person had started this, if the battle idea was "stupid", and it DOESN'T MATTER if the user was of a young age. This was unacceptable behavior from Wiki members here and it took an event like this to make me realize it was finally time to enforce the Wiki's second rule, which has frankly been glossed over for too long without consequence.

For starters, a link to this blog has been added to the page, which as far as I'm concerned should be a required read before posting a single comment:

http://deathbattlefanon.wikia.com/wiki/User_blog:AgentHoxton/Quality_Time_w/_Agent_-_Wrong_Battles_and_the_Appropriate_Reaction

And to make it perfectly clear what constructive criticism and disagreement is: you are telling them your issues and why you disagree, but you do so in a way which encourages improvement and treats the writer with respect. You try to degrade the person and insult them and their idea? You're clearly doing it wrong.

Disrespectful comments are no longer acceptable and if any are posted from this day forward... we admins will take action. Absolutely no exceptions. 