User blog:TheEmbracedOne/Announcement - Comments Have Been Disabled

Dear Contributors and Readers, After many months of battling a constant surge of comments that go against the Rules of Conduct, the admin team has made the decision to turn off comments on the wiki.

You can use Discussions to talk about strategies, builds and other, wiki- or game-related topics. Please be mindful of the Discussion Guidelines however.

Not knowing the rules will not make you exempt from punishment.

Editing Rules

 * Registered users may receive a month ban for first offences, depending upon the severity of the vandalism and mod discretion.
 * Vandalism includes both the addition of objectionable items, as well as destructive deletion.
 * Do not leave messages in the article.
 * Do not include opinions in the article.
 * No edit warring. If you and another editor disagree, discuss it on a wall message thread or on the Wiki Discord.
 * No use of bots unless authorised by an admin.
 * Do your best to use proper spelling and grammar when editing. Please refer to the terminology section of the editing guidelines for reference.
 * If you are unsure if something should be added to the wiki, post it in the comments first or address it on the Wiki Discord, and let the Wiki team or community decide.

Discussions Rules

 * 1) Not knowing the rules will not make you exempt from punishment.
 * 2) Be nice and treat people with respect. Keep discussions civil.
 * 3) Threads and posts that solicit upvotes will be deleted.
 * 4) Off-topic conversations will be deleted.
 * 5) Impersonation of other users will not be tolerated.
 * 6) Spamming, trolling, or vandalizing of any kind will lead to a ban.
 * 7) Posts of "First!", "I did it" and similar behaviour will be removed.
 * 8) No advertising of commissions, services or any social medias (youtube, twitch, twitter etc)
 * 9) Jokes, memes and otherwise unhelpful discussions are not welcome on the wiki.
 * 10) Piracy is not to be advocated or otherwise encouraged on this wiki. This includes links.
 * 11) Fanart, OCs and fanfic are not allowed anywhere on the wiki.
 * 12) Users who repeatedly break these rules will be given a warning or may be banned.

Explanation

 * Capacity: we have one comment moderator, and we've announced in all our channels that we were looking for more; but we had no applicants.
 * We have issued 7 blocks since the start of this year and approx 22 warnings, some of which resulted in bans.
 * I cant seem to get the rest of the warning logs but in 2019 October-Dec we've issued 80+ warnings, and from March-Dec 35 bans.
 * Might I point out that this is during a rather "dormant" period - we anticipated a much bigger impact with the coming of Silksong.


 * All of this effort, and all maintenance and upkeep is run by the wiki team and contributors in our free time. Time that's spent going through hundreds of comments to root out shitposts and memes could be spent on more useful efforts, especially once Silksong is out.


 * Some content just doesnt belong on a wiki; "I did it", "first", memes and shitposts will always be removed from the wiki, and so will OCs, fanarts and fanfics, because there are already proper channels for posting that kind of content. We care deeply about the quality of this wiki and that's why we set up the Rules of Conduct, to keep it at that quality.


 * This was a long time coming. As mentioned above, we have looked for a commend moderator for months, and on the wiki discord we've made announcements in October about the intent to disable comments:

We discussed with @Pauolo the feature of article comments. We've tried to get a comment moderator but couldnt find one. We dont have capacity to regularly moderate comments, and the vast majority of them dont contribute to pages

Yes, there are some users who make interesting posts, there are some bosses who have great comments sections with people talking about strats and charm loadouts, but right now the shitposts outweigh the useful posts. We are considering disabling article comments and instead encouraging the use of Discussions https://hollowknight.fandom.com/f - how would you feel about this change?

We encourage discussions about this to happen in #wiki-general

--- The entire purpose of this decision and these guidelines is to uphold a certain level of quality in the Discussions. A topic titled "I did it" or "Finally beat [boss]" may spark conversation, but most replies will just be "congrats" and the thread will die quickly:

https://hollowknight.fandom.com/f/p/3102122304340512354

https://hollowknight.fandom.com/f/p/3102122304340512358

Instead, imagine the topic titled instead along the lines of "What did you find the most difficult about beating [boss]?" or "How long did it take you to beat [boss] and what tactic finally did it for you?" - the discussion will now be about the tactics and boss behaviour:

https://hollowknight.fandom.com/f/p/3102122304340512930