Board Thread:News and Announcements/@comment-7424710-20170111015758

So as of the coming months, it's come to my attention that there's been many instances of shitposting on regular threads and discussions. If you don't know what shitposting is, it's the random act of posting nonsense or gibberish either through text or forms of visual media. And if you're a moderator or Admin for another wiki, you should know that those words are similar to one of the default reasons to use when blocking someone. You should see where I'm going with this, right?

On serious discussions, whether if it's someone violating a rule, or just a serious debate in general, there have been records of people invading these threads with such nonsense. Stuff like posting random memes, .gifs of Oliver O'Hare from the Lorax Movie, that kind of stuff. You know what it is? Worthless, meaningless, annoying, and breaks the rules. And it's at a higher rate than we've seen before, even up to today, so I'm going to make it clear and say fucking stop.

I've had to warn people numerous times and even block one person because of it, and frankly I don't think people are learning from their mistakes, because maybe a few days after they get told off, they go at it again with even more memes and nonsense. It needs to stop. Now I'm not saying all jokes or shitposting in areas where it's just fun and games isn't allowed anymore, that'd be cruel of me. What I'm saying is if you're going to post memes and shitpost, do it in a place that isn't a serious conversation, because that's where it is occurring the most.

If you shitpost in a serious conversation and it is your first offense, you will be given a warning for the sake of keeping it fair. But, violate it again, and it will come with heavier consequences. I'm putting pressure on this right now because of the sudden rise of the incidents, so I'm going to have to be a little more harsh to enforce it for right now, at least until I can rewrite and revise the Rules & Guidelines to start really cleaning up this place.

That's all I got. Later, and remember your boundaries of where you can and cannot shitpost. 