Survivor Wiki:Discussion Policy

Discussion is an important in the Survivor Wiki, for it addresses suggestions to improve the wiki, and to facilitate general interaction between users. Discussion should be used before making any major changes, where practical, and consensus, defined as at least a supermajority in agreement, should be reached.

Conduct
Users are under the assumption they are civil in all interaction. Incivility is defined as being aggressive, which lead to conflict and unproductive stress among users. The following is a list of examples of incivility, and all are grounds for blocking:
 * Direct rudeness such as insults, intent of malice, profanity, or inappropriate suggestions
 * Personal attacks, such as racial, sexual, homophobic, ageist, ethnic, religious or other epithets (e.g. people with disabilities)
 * Deprecate a fellow editor, even including the use of judgmental and personal edit summaries
 * Deliberately provoking users to the point of breaching civility even if not seeming to commit such a breach themselves
 * Harassment, personal or legal threats
 * Lying, or misinterpreting a truth
 * Deliberate maligning the decency, credibility and overall character of another user
 * Attempts to silence differing views of users
 * Accusing a user of misdemeanor without supporting evidence
 * Deliberate vandalism
 * Threats of off-site violence

Wiki editors, registered users or otherwise, are human and capable of mistakes, so a few minor incidents of misunderstandings is perfectly normal. However, a studied pattern of incivility is disruptive, unacceptable, and is subject to disciplinary action.

Message Walls

 * Message Walls are not primarily intended to be a facility for social interaction. They are to facilitate individual messages relevant to the users' activity on the wiki. As such, utilizing them for the purposes of social interaction is expressly conditional, and moderating action may be taken if threads do not meet the following guidelines:
 * The given topic is inappropriate, and does not follow policy or the principles of common decency and maturity, as is encouraged and typical of any wiki community.
 * The discussion is consistently off-topic with the site, with no meaningful elements relating to the show or the wiki, and will most likely grow to unmanageable proportions if allowed to continue - such that other editors may be unjustly inconvenienced.
 * The subject matter is leading to sharing personal information.
 * For the purposes of prolonged social interaction, which usually does not fall under the above criteria, please use community chat room or private emails.
 * Message Walls must be the primary way to reach a user on-wiki. User space pages for the purposes of discussion are permitted, but their use may not diminish in any way the emphasis on or the functionality of Message Wall. This principle precludes practices including, but not limited to:
 * Indicating a preference for a talk page and instructing or encouraging users to post there instead, even where this is implicit (simply linking to a user space discussion page and presenting it as an alternative is acceptable)
 * Obscuring any part of Message Wall, even where there is functionality to unhide it
 * Obscuring interface links to Message Wall or otherwise complicating access to Message Wall

Comments
All comments must be relevant to their associated page topic. The comments section is for social conversations between users. They are to only facilitate interaction that is relevant to the topic of the article or blog post. Comments deemed irrelevant are subject to deletion by an administrator or rollback user.

Avoid commenting on topics of discussion when the preceding post is more than thirty days old. It is unlikely to attract any response. Consider creating a new thread of discussion instead.