User:SOTO/Forum Archive/Inclusion debates/@comment-31010985-20191101112654/@comment-6032121-20200110233558

First and foremost, User:Shambala108, I second User:Borisashton's queries.

Concerning the kudos thing… I see User:Amorkuz's point about a seemingly-large number of kudos being liable to give off a false sense of consensus, and to be honest, ultimately, I'm not sure kudos in general are a good thing to have in a serious forum at all.

But equally, I still don't think they constitute "expressing one's support for validity", even so. If this were a classic-style public, spoken debate (rather than a written forum thread), I would argue that leaving kudos on this or that post would be akin to the audience in the stand cheering or clapping at this or that statement from one of the speakers. It's not necessarily expressing an opinion on the issue itself, but, instead, equivalent to "well said!", "well-put!".

In such a classical debate, it would, of course, be the prerogative of the master-of-ceremony or whoever to bang with their gavel and call for the audience to stop cheering, if it's getting distracting. So by all means ask for kudos not to be added.

But I don't think it was at all obvious that posting kudos fell within the realm of what User:Revanvolatrelundar was being asked not to do. And we are getting into quite esoteric territory as policy-interpretations go — NateBumber may not be an administrator, but Revanvolatrelundar is; begging your pardon, but assuming (as one well might) that Revan shares NateBumber's interpretation of the Wiki's policy on kudos, why should one admin's interpretation (yours) trump another's?

At any rate, this feels like a good time to remind everyone (and myself) that future releases by Arcbeatle of which no more shall hopefully be spoken here, or any alleged misinterpretations of the Wiki's policy about kudos, aren't actually the subject of this debate. The subject of this debate is the validity of the already-released Rachel Survived, White Canvas, The Gendar Conspiracy and Life After Death.