Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-1251315-20151018142559/@comment-1251315-20151018201748

Atvelonis wrote: Removing policies on the basis of common sense is not the best idea, because if it isn't written as policy somewhere then people who break those rules on purpose will be able to use the excuse of "I read the chat policy and it didn't say anything about it" to get away with breaking them. That's silly and is completely avoidable if we just leave those rules in.

Other than that, can you give some specific examples of what exactly you want changed? If you do that it'll be easier for us to revise the policy. I'm not saying to remove all the policies based on common sense though. It's just that some policies don't need to be explicitly stated. I don't know if I mentioned it previously, but mods should be able to think for themselves: if someone posts a porn link, a mod should not need any listed policy to know the user should be kicked. Same for any illegal links that people might post (eg "hey, i found this site that allows you to get skyrim for free "). These are policies that don't need to be stated, they are a no-go everywhere on the internet.

I would prefer that the community, like it did before, come up with better policies of what it thinks should be mentioned. There are policies listed that were based on one-off situations and policies that currently make it disallowed to criticise moderator decisions. But like I said: I want the community to come up with better policies. If the community isn't able to decide what policies it wants for parts of the site, then I see this as a problem.