User blog comment:JustSomeDude.../JSD's "Secret" Agenda/@comment-3423357-20150206030654

As much as I hate to agree with SeaTerror, I think this wiki has a rule problem. I speak as a newbie (to this wiki) and as a bureaucrat (on other wikis) when I say this wiki has too many rules or even imagined pseudo-rules. The Diablo Wiki has only two enforced rules: no fan art in articles and no links to fan sites outside of talk pages/blogs/forum. Every other "rule" is governed by common sense. Now, I must concede that the Diablo Wiki is not as active as the One Piece Wiki right now, but even when Diablo III was released and our activity skyrocketed, we didn't need more rules. Red tape doesn't make a wiki better, it just makes it hard to access. In my opinion (and I suppose experience as well), the few times when a strict rule would have helped is insignificant compared to the many times when a strict rule scares everyone away from doing anything at all. While I never planned to be a consistent editor here, I feel even less motivation to contribute when I comb through the long pages of policies here.

Image rules is a good place to exemplify the problem here. The first image I uploaded was deleted because it was unused at the time (I was waiting for a dispute started by guess-who to be resolved before adding it). I'm not saying it was wrong to have been deleted as the rules do say unused files can be deleted, my point is that the rule is extreme; my image was unused for only eight hours before deletion. I would think 24 hours should be a minimum.

Secondly, I'd like to point out that the image rules state: "There isn't a general rule on which format use, however, the PNG format is strongly preferred over JPGs or JPEGs." Yet &mdash;and correct me if I'm wrong (just going by what I've seen)&mdash; jpgs are deleted on sight, no questions asked. At what point does no general rule and strongly preferred become a no-toleration policy?

You don't need a What New Rules Can We Add? forum topic, you need a What Rules Are Excessive and We Could Do Without? topic. Your problem isn't just the fact that some of your editors are hostile to newbies, the wiki itself generates hostility, or perhaps more accurately, elitism, through the supersaturation of overly-high standards.

Anyway, this is only the opinion of one. Do with it as you will.