Thread:PhoenixKenny/@comment-26865399-20160613203334/@comment-4423426-20160613223203

I know I'll wind up regretting replying to this, but as an admin I should pitch in too.

I see what you mean about the comment limit rule. The problem is, there are those who will specifically comment over and over for the sole purpose of boosting their edit count, and you can usually tell when it's not constructive too like, a simple comment such as "this is my favourite character" then proceeding to rank other characters in different comments "This is my 5th favourite character" I admit that  somewhere along the way, as John has pointed out-- we lost the original purpose, which was to prevent those types of uncessary comments happening more than 3 times a day by the same user. I personally don't want to do away with the rule altogether because there's a reason it's there-- in the past the wiki activity has been flooded with users commenting for the sake of commenting, but maybe a numbered limit is not a good idea. Maybe what should happen is we look out for obvious wiki activity flooding. Btw, the user you said mentioned that the rules were the same on other wikis, isn't an admin and is relatively new. He was most likely referring to necroposting as well. If there's an alternate way to go about this, I'm open to it. My idea is basically to do away with the  numbered limit, and just have it be when it's obvious someone's commenting for the sake of commenting, but that in and of itself has problems, because how far is too far? That's why we needed the limit. Anyway, I felt like since I'm the only admin online atm, some were expecting me to pitch in so there's my take on it.