Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-24583896-20160615201315/@comment-27002181-20160705032939

There are still some rules that need to be revised and I have the gist of what needs to be said. Yes, this is gonna be an essay.

For starters, I want to talk about User Rights Promotion. The way we currently do promotions is great. It allows the community to decide on who should be promoted and who should not. However, I have noticed that users have greatly taken advantage of this privilege. You see, out of ALL of the rights requests we have received, only 2 (at least I know of) have been officially opposed. The one with Mrboy and the other with Juxo (and that's only because he broke a rule). Why is that? I have noticed that users don't give appropriate reasons to support a user being promoted. I've seen "You're a good friend", "We need more of (insert right here)", and literally simple supports. That is not acceptable in my book. And in the past, we have had users who were promoted for reasons such as the ones listed above, and they proved that they were not at all fit for their position. I feel like we should do a few things about this.
 * 1) Keep a limit on how many users can have special rights Seriously, at this point, users are going to keep posting requests the minute they are eligible to do so. And once that happens, everyone is going to be an admin. And all hell will break loose.
 * 2) We need a Moderator to make sure the reasons are acceptable . This does seem somewhat contradictory to my above reason. A moderator is there to make sure posts & comments such as the ones in the forums and blogs are acceptable. With a moderator, they will make sure that once a right request is up, they will make sure that users will give ACCEPTABLE reasons to support or oppose a user.
 * 3) Raise the number of supports . This one may not sit well with others, but to me... it's needed... desperately. Why should we leave the fate of only a user to 5 users to decide if a user is getting promoted? It's so quick and easy for 5 people to just put support and end the request just like that. I say we raise the Support/Oppose ratio up to at least 10. And yes, we do have more than 10 users on the wiki...
 * 4) Adding and Subtracting . I feel like this is something that should be taken really seriously. As I've said before, it's so easy for 5 users to put support on a request and be done. But, what if we did it like this. Say there is a request with 4 supports and 2 opposes. That would total the user's score to 2 supports. Because currently, it's basically a race to see which could hit 5 first. Support or Oppose. It's better for every voice to be heard in a discussion or a request, it's what's fair.

Going back to my statement about "Racial Slurs & Sexual Slang". I personally don't see the words "bitch" and "fuck" as sexual slang. I see them as simple bad words. I could be wrong on this... if I am... blame it on California for teaching me wrong. Anyway, I think we all know what actual sexual slang is. Such as this and this. And before any of you ask, I typed "sexual slang" on Wikipedia and these came up. Again, I could be very wrong on this. Anyway, I don't really need to touch up on Racial Slurs because I'm pretty sure we all know exactly what NOT to say about someone's skin or ethnicity. But yes, that part of the rules does need revision. We should actually put the words that aren't allowed so people will understand.

The episode section needs revision BADLY. Out of all the drama that there have been thanks to the creation of some episodes, you'd think that there would be more rules that just 2. Such as making them appropriate (for HTF standards at least), plagiarising, etc. I could go on, but you probably understand what I'm getting.