Thread:Light.Runner.Explorer/@comment-24808864-20160304053926

Hi Light Runner, I wanted to thank you for coming in and chatting with us this evening! I hope you have a better understanding of the inner workings of Wikia in general, and our wiki in particular!

I have not had a chance to confer with the other admins, but I can understand why some of your concerns might also be concerns of users, so I am going to respond to the best of my ability here and allow the other sysops to add anything if they can or want! If you (or anyone) would like to talk about it interactively, just let me know, and we can try to coordinate a time to meet in chat so that we can discuss!

I copy/pasted what you wrote, and so I will respond to them here in order:

1) There is not a rule that actually says "you can be banned if you are underage." However, on the first line of our "general rules" it says you must read and understand the Wikia TOU, and if you follow the link provided you go to the TOU. In the Wikia TOU, in the thirteen line counting from the top, starting at the fifteenth word of that line, it says "you confirm that you are over the age of 13." In the past, we just let it go, but we had an incident and Wikia Staff came in and said this cannot happen, so we just try to do our part on our wiki to keep aligned with Wikia TOU like good citizens!

2) Thank you for clarifying about the debate! I am glad that you like to be informed, I can tell that about you! Continue to be inquisitive, it will help you be a "learner for life," and learning is one of my greatest joys!

3) Pre-released material should not be on the wiki, but the spirit of the law is because KA needs time to make sure things are ready to be produced in the content (for example, partner content). The avatar, I believe was actually released (or leaked or used) by someone (maybe the art history dude?) but we have not heard any complaints about it, so we are just leaving it for now. The  real problem, and reason for the rule, is when exercises or material that is not ready for release is posted here. KA asked us to NOT post such information, and although we are not affilliated with KA, we enjoy their service, and  are more than happy to respect their requests.

4) Energy Point Management is not really a glitch or a hack in my estimation, although it may be debateable. To me it is an efficiency algorithm (or technique) that can be used to "maximize" point earning. Glitches or hacks are more about finding weird bugs or holes that people can exploit, for example, finding an exercise in which there is no content and just submitting any answer provides points. I believe for the most part the energy point management doesn't work as well anymore because of the set number of problems in an exercise, but I might be wrong about this. I never thought to purposely answer a question wrong before, seems illogical! Nobody has really talked about that page in a while, so it seems like it is not a big deal. We will see if you bringing it up makes it a big deal again, and if it gets too contentious, we will just remove it! No big deal!

I hope this helps your understanding a bit! In general we want all users on the wiki to have the freedom to exhibit their own creativity, but the few rules we have in place are just to align ourselves within the Wikia Community, respect the content of the KA, or to just help keep the general peace here based on our past experiences. If everybody treats each other as they would like to be treated, then we generally have a pretty good time!

Thank you and take care! 