User blog:John Breasly/Concerning Users and Edits

Hello there, you lovely wikialonians.? Ho-

Okay, screw it, I'm not going to be flattering.? I've noticed several users entering chat here without the proper amount of edits.? Users like Slappy, Sven, and Al (or maybe it was someone else) had to regain the edits to get into chat, but others like Prefrence use the argument that they "forgot" their password.? Well that's all fine and dandy, but he's not even editing.? He's on chat with an account that has zero edits.? In fact, he shouldn't be on chat at all, because User:Themasteraccount that he got his "edits" on only added categories.? He didn't contribute anything, he didn't sort any pages that needed categories.? It was useless, and letting him on chat without real edits defeats the entire purpose of having the "100 edits" rule.? He's obviously not here with the intention of editing.? There are people who lost their accounts and regained the edits fairly, yet others just get a free pass.

Here's the problem - you're being hypocrites and biased by changing the rules for some users but not others.? This isn't the US government, their aren't any specific "circumstances" that influence the rule - I learned that the hard way.? 100 fair edits means 100 fair edits, and you're currently letting users bypass that on new accounts.

Do something about it.? The rules don't rest on "circumstances," they rest on hard, ground-in ideals that were put on place to help this wiki.? And as long as you bypass those rules, you are clearly not working in the best interest of the community.

-- John Breasly ,   Savvy Designs Member  23:16, November 24, 2012 (UTC)