Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11458028-20140813114306/@comment-10777624-20140823200837

This is out of my jurisdiction now, so I'm not abusing any sort of "authority". I am speaking as a regular contributor, just as you are, but on a somewhat opposing side.

I'll try to level with you, since you're making some good points. If you read the administrator page (which I highly doubt, but you'll go and read it now since I just mentioned it), it will say "Administrator powers should be used to help keep the wiki clear of vandalism, spam, and users who make malicious edits..." Since you continuously point out that any vandalism and spam and malicious users can use the channels still open, this--technically--means that the admins are free to close every single communication channel right now, at any time, and without warning you, for the safety of wiki.

This is when a compromise comes into play. You have probably two options here that would be a compromise: 1. You can petition to ask the admins to bring back the comment sections but close another channel of communication; or 2. You can let it go and keep things the way they are now, which is also a compromise since comment sections are closed but other ways to communicate are still open. If you're asking to open all channels, that most likely won't happen because I cannot stress enough that it really is true that when there are fewer ways of people communicating it is easier to monitor activity. And if you sit there and say "Well just constantly watch the 'Recent Edits' page," you probably don't realize you are condemning another person to sit there and go through hundreds of comments and threads every day mixed in with legitimate edits. You're not seeing it from an admin's POV, you're seeing it from your own as a regular contributor. You're pretty much implying that you think it doesn't matter that an admin has to deal with these things just as long as you are free to do whatever you want.

If you truly want comment sections to be opened again, consider everything that's on the table here and find a way to compromise with the admins because if they're the ones who ultimately have to deal with everything to keep this wiki cleaned up. They're not in charge of the wiki, but they're the only ones who can clean it up if no one bothers to keep it clean in the first place. Please keep them in consideration not as "people of authority" but as people in general.