Thread:Dchallofjustice/@comment-1398253-20131226230159/@comment-691135-20131227132807

People are going to simply ignore that. If they ignore postings stating the rules, they wont bother reading anything else either. 99.9999999999% of all forum posts are ones that simply do not belong there. There is little forum collaboration on anything, and it isnt expending resources on a bunch of spam. When we first opened the forums i not only expressed my displeasure, but also why they were a very bad idea. Since then, everything i predicted would happen has happened, perhaps to a larger extent than anticipated. There is only one way to salvage the forums and i dont think its doable within Wikia's mechanics. That would be to create a new category of users and drop in anyone who can follow the forum's rules and only users in that group can use them.

We already delete non-wiki ops threads but doing so does not stop people from making them again and again and again. I can start blocking on the first offense, as Ive considered, but the amount of blocked users would render the wiki rather quiet thus defeating the purpose. In all honesty, it is time to shut them down as a failure and find another means of collaboration. And no, I dont mean a noticeboard.