Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-1682045-20170221180018/@comment-1705775-20170223221754

Grizzhly wrote: Inferno Pendragon wrote: if users abuse categories by doing NOTHING but adding categories to articles I'll consider starting a new rule that users can not simply add categories and NOTHING ELSE.. basically, users should contribute in other ways and if they simply add categories and nothing else, perhaps it's time to outlaw such behavior.

addiction needs a kick to stop, so do bad habits and if users don't want to contribute other than adding categories (and nothing else) they are unlikely to help make the wiki better in content. Wait, do you mean that users should not only make edits which add categories to an article, or that an edit has to consist of more than just the addition of a category?

Because the last one is actually neccessary sometimes and banning it would likely cause more problems than it solves.

I'm talking users that literally do NOTHING but add categories, they don't make articles, don't help clean articles up, don't engage in forums or anything.. simply add categories to articles in a manner similar to bots.. that's something we need to discourage.. users should try and contribute in multiple ways.. having accounts that just repetitively add categories is no better than having bots.