Board Thread:Consensus Track/@comment-11649650-20140226024048/@comment-29461586-20140227095922

Speysider wrote:

EbonySkyrim wrote: That is not the point that they know already. I can be a mother and grandmother with my age. I wouldn't want my young teenager or grandson/granddaughter to discuss or take part in discussions about sex and porn on a gamerelated chat when they are as young as 13-15. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Letter_and_spirit_of_the_law

I'll quote the important part:

"When one obeys the letter of the law but not the spirit, one is obeying the literal interpretation of the words (the 'letter') of the law, but not the intent of those who wrote the law. Conversely, when one obeys the spirit of the law but not the letter, one is doing what the authors of the law intended, though not necessarily adhering to the literal wording." While it talks about law, the point of this quote still stands for rules. What you are suggesting is that everyone follows the absolute interpretation of the rules and not the intent which the rule was made, instead of taking it in the spirit and understanding why it was made.

Spey has a point. If we followed the rules to the letter, the chat will end up empty like a wasteland since almost everybody is gonna be kicked.

We don't want the chat or the wikia to be an authoritarian wasteland, do we?