User blog comment:Artimas Hunter/Even More IRC Stuff/@comment-24459516-20120926192321

Can I be completely honest here? I don't like this rule. And no one say, "Why not, Star? You're sure to be in the clear for edits!" I'm thinking of everyone here when I say it's just not fair.

Say you've got writers block. Writers block, can't write. So now you're being punished by being unable to go on the IRC just because you can't think of anything to write? Unfair.

And Arti, what, are you going to count every single user's mainstream edits to be sure they're over thirty if they're on the IRC? And if you say "No, Star, calm down, I'm just going to see if they've been editing stories in general." Well then that's not following this new rule. How can you be sure they're at thirty if you're just eyeballing the edits? You really can't.

Would anyone think of me as inactive? Heck no! But I've only had nine mainstream edits this month, on my stories. So technically I'm not allowed on the IRC. Does anyone doubt that I've been nothing but dedicated to this wiki in the last month? Contributing, even if it's not solely on stories?

I'm not trying to be disrespectful, or argumentitive, but I just don't think it's a very thought-out rule.