Thread:Da Clorax/@comment-4196050-20190909230811

Hi, Da Clorax! I was recently consulted by some of the other Roblox Wikia administrators to help out with some concerns about mini modding and disagreements with how we approach handling situations on the wiki.

I was looking at your comments in Thread:365910 and saw you questioning a block. I appreciate you bringing up your concerns, and I hope I can reclarify some things. On this wiki, we definitely are very strict about underage users. As Roblox is a platform targeted to minors, we understand that we will be getting a lot of contributors who are also <13. COPPA is a law that is especially important on US-based sites like the Roblox Wikia, and since our wiki is geared more towards kids we need to be extra careful with it (we could get into big trouble if they were to find out we were helping underage kids bypass Wikia's Terms of Use to use the wiki). We want to make sure that we are keeping our policies fairly implemented across all editors, so if there's any reason we think the editor may be underage we will block them. This is more of my personal opinion, but it is well-known that web.roblox.com is the <13 link, while roblox.com is the >=13 platform, so not changing the link to roblox.com makes it super obvious they aren't old enough to work with some of the complexities of our wiki (formatting, following "unfair" policies like our notability policies, keeping text neutral).

As for your concerns about our automated text, it was my idea to implement that system in the first place. What I've noticed in the years I've been working here is that messages can be interpreted in multiple ways. Of course, that can lead to some trouble for us, especially if the way one admin words something sounds more derogatory/insulting/threatening than another administrator's way of saying something. The templates also help us to make sure we are consistently applying the rules across everyone fairly and that we are covering the most important parts that need to be covered in that message (J cannot tell you how many times I have brain farted while writing out messages only to find out I absolutely missed something important).

Let me know if you have any other questions or concerns! 