Wiki and Forum Policy - General Discussion

Note: The thread currently has a limit of one post every two hours for non-mod users. Currently, this is hard-coded by the admins, but there are plans to give mods the ability to toggle it without admin intervention. After mods are given the ability to do that, the time limit may be further reduced or removed entirely.

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This thread is for discussing the following topics:

• Questions and clarifications about the site's rules and policies pertaining to wiki editing, forum posting, trope launching, and so on.
• If you have an idea for a thread on another part of the forums but aren't sure if creating it would be allowed, feel free to ask here.

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This thread is not for any of the following:

• Reporting complaints or concerns about specific moderation decisions (e.g. suspensions and thumps). Report these directly to the admins via the contact form. Selecting "The Staff" sends your message to the admins only, without making it visible to moderators.
• Queries about thumps applied to your own forum posts (reply to the relevant moderator via PM).
• Ban appeals (use the "Edit Banned" thread in this forum).
• Reporting problems or requesting moderator action in the wiki or forums (use Ask The Tropers or Hollers^note The "holler this" entry in the dropdown that opens when you click the button with the three dots in the upper right corner of every forum post or specialized threads such as "Locked Pages").
• Queries about locked On-Topic Conversations (OTC) threads or banned discussion topics. OTC has its own moderation discussion thread here, and the latest statement on the locked US Politics thread and other banned OTC topics is here. Bluntly, when certain OTC threads and topics have repeatedly caused problems, we're not going to provide forum space to discuss them again until the moderation toolkit is equipped to handle those conversations.
• Cut List challenges and queries (they have their own thread here).
• Requests for changes to the site's code or discussion about such changes', as mods cannot change the code; only the admins can do that. Please direct tech requests to Query Bugs or Query Wishlist, and take other tech-related discussion to the Changelog thread.
• Crowner actions. Please use the holler function instead.
• Discussion about changing or implementing policies. Please use Wiki Talk for that. (Asking whether it's OK to make a specific thread is acceptable; using this thread in place of such a thread is not.)
• Asking about the whereabouts of inactive mods (or other inactive users) before they return, if they return at all. Use the Absent people thread for discussing inactive users.

Posts that use this thread in place of the sections listed in the bulleted list above are off-topic.

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We're aware that the Edit Banned thread has a Non-Indicative Name, due to it also covering non-editing suspensions. We're not sure whether the name for that thread can even be edited without breaking the special coding that keeps posting restricted to mods and suspended users, so we're leaving it alone for now, because better safe than sorry.
(Edited Mar 28 2024, adding bullet about OTC and amending layout a little)

Edited by Mrph1 on Mar 29th 2024 at 10:55:20 AM