User blog comment:Zer0TheNinja/I'm Addressing the Elephant in the Room/@comment-4735418-20130827021651/@comment-5931267-20130827024411

If I may step in and offer my own 'two cents' on the issue. Despite being fairly new to this wiki I am not new to wikia as a whole. I've been in the same situation on two other wiki's. (Now I know that no two wiki's are exactly alike, but in this case all three wiki's share similar policies and codes of conduct.)  In both cases multiple attempts were made to solve the issue, and many of those attempts failed. The one method that did suceed in both cases stems from one word actually, discipline. I've noticed that disciplinary actions are taken where seen fit by the administrators, even against other users who hold positions of power on the wiki. What has been frequently missed though is disciplinary actions, or even warnings, against regular users pertaining to chat. Now when a new user comes in I always see warnings when policy is broken and appropriate actions taken when those warnings are ignored. WHat I haven't seen a lot of is regular users (besides WG and Bane) get the same warnings and same actions taken against them. Now this may be because I haven't been here long enough to truly know what I speak of, or because I'm not on chat for when these events occur, but this is my own personal observation from the time I've spent in chat. I'm not saying crack down with an iron fist, but taking action a bit more than I've seen wouldn't be a hinderance. Now on the other side us users who know the policy really should follow it a bit more than we actually do (I can admit I'm included on that side as I tend to go into A CAPS FRENZY from time to time). So yeah I just kinda wanted to say that and perhaps it'll be helpful to the users in power, or I'm a complete moron who has no clue what he's saying. Either way I just felt like saying it!