Thread:AustinDR/@comment-34055410-20180930000319

Lately, users have been blatantly and conveniently ignoring the proposal rule and adding pages to the PE category/removing the PE category without making a proposal. And when the category is removed/added back, they would edit-war over it. While it was initially easier to ignore, the issue is getting more and more irritating IMO.

Today, this happened. A user tried multiple times to add a character to PE without making a proposal, and when the character was removed numerous times, the user made a discussion post just to sternly complain about the category being removed (you can also see that I kinda lashed out at him in the comments).

Originally, the proposal rule was literally made to avoid further edit-warring over the PE category, and also to further distance us from TV Tropes. And then of course, only a week or so after the rule was officially established, a user (now permablocked) added a character to PE without making a proposal, and his reasoning? "TV Tropes says so, and therefore, WE MUST ALSO!!" And of course, Grizzhly got rightfully pissed off and copy and pasted the rules.

So I came up with a new suggestion. Rather than simply removing/adding back the PE category, if a user tries to add/remove the category once, he will be given a warning. And if he does it more than once, he will be blocked. This will teach users to take this certain rule more seriously, and to avoid further edit-wars and abuse. What do you think?

PS: I also discussed this with Valkerone and some other admins. 