Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-2059440-20170416192505/@comment-1705775-20170416210349

basically Austin, there's been incidents both recent and in the past that have made it clear we need to make it clearer to admins what is acceptable behavior in running a wiki and what is not.. it's not a big "you suck" speech to our admins, who all work hard to make the wiki better.. it is simply a "we need to make sure everyone is aware of how our actions may alter the wiki and its users".. name-calling especially is a proven way to turn good users into trolls.. it's also not acceptable to target new users as "newbs" etc.. even if they may appear "unhelpful", often new users don't know how wikis work and need help rather than ridicule.

these incidents are rare but have been going on for a while now, I guess Misery (as ever) decided to be the first to just kick the topic up.. love or hate it she doesn't back down from controversy and this is controversial but probably necessary (how we run the admin side of the wiki, a topic rarely discussed).