User:SOTO/Forum Archive/The Panopticon/@comment-26285319-20170104192003/@comment-4028641-20170305033646

I don't mind when Admins step in to bring a discussion to a close, and I think usually it's done with a reasoned head. I think Czech is an example of an admin who usually does it with a very level head, and doesn't over-step his authority very often (although I'm sure you could find many emotional quotes from me claiming the opposite).

But I can think of a couple instances where an admin shut down a discussion very quickly while saying something that just isn't supported by policy. I won't list them off because I don't take it personally, but there are debates that I would very much like to re-do just because the entire point was over-looked and some new "rule" was invented by one person in one comment when it really has no backing at all.

Back to the discussion tho, I agree that we shouldn't allow extreme tangents to be valid just because there is some loose connection there. The BBV policy is a good standard for that. But I disagree that we should expect all authors of barely licensed contents to directly say if a story is DWU or not. Some authors just don't care what we think, but that doesn't suddenly make all of their work invalid.