Board Thread:Moderation Desk/@comment-644222-20150815034345

The Moon Guard Wiki was founded with the goal of providing a collective space for players to share their fan-fiction and chronicle their role-play without fear of their content being edited, deleted, or misused by others with personal grievances. To ensure that such an environment was made available to all players on the Moon Guard server, the administrators of the wiki have thusfar been extremely hesitant to judge wiki users on any field other than the content they posted to the wiki instead of their conduct in-game or elsewhere. While such a policy welcomed all to contribute from all corners of our server, it inadvertently turned a cheek to behavior that the administrators collectively found irreproachable. We administrators believe that users who regularly practice blatant hate speech while using sexual, racial, and impediment-based slurs do more harm than good to our wiki's image and standing as a friendly and welcoming environment to all.

Now this is a volatile subject. Why are we the people to make this call? Ultimately, the wiki is meant to be a medium for facilitation of RP/sharing ideas. The administrators of the wiki are a group of people that all have our own concerns; a group that should not allow the use of something we've built to help support the faculties of extremely prejudiced people. That cannot be done without actually putting a foot down and holding individuals accountable for their inexcusable conduct. While we can not force these individuals to give up on their personal beliefs, we will take notice and action should a user post genuinely hateful speech on a public forum frequented by the players of Moon Guard. It will not and should not be tolerated by people at large and we will not stand to support it as administrators.

If it comes into the public medium that a person has severe unabashed, unmitigated hatred against another group of people to a level as seen (antisemitism as an example), it is not to be tolerated. Each matter will be personally handled by the administrative team as a group; though in obvious circumstances the punishment will be clear. Users in question will have their editing privileges reviewed and potentially removed afterwards.

We hope this new policy will make the wiki a safer more welcoming place for its user base. Thank you. 