Forum:Changing the image blocking policy.

Hello and good whatever time it is where you live. I'm proposing a change to the image "blocking" policy, or rather the elimination of it. Let me explain:

I do not have the exact date of when this policy was added, but I feel a lot has changed since then. Thanks to this "blocking" policy that was added to the image rules, I have felt and seen that the user influx has died out (I'm not saying that's the exact cause, just a part of it). The fact that blocking users (most of them fairly new) after posting an image that wasn't correctly categorised/named/whatever has alienated whatever possible new contributors (not people who just go in chat and that's it, actual people who add actual info to the wiki), and most of all, custodians basically eliminating possible images that are useful and can be just renamed and recategorised (btw, which is basically what custodians should do). Following on, I think the use of a template when a wrongly named or categorised image is uploaded is not cutting it. I honestly think that a custodian should get in contact with the new user and actually walking him through the process of uploading an image. The template feels cold and mechanic, like saying "eh, whatevs, take this, have fun learning on your own, bye", and that's not what we should do to new users. It wasn't what we did to new users.

I hope that everyone understands what I'm getting with here. If you have any questions about things (you think) I didn't explain myself very well, post them in the discussion.-20:38, April 11, 2014 (UTC)