Board Thread:Wiki Discussion/@comment-5172448-20180512204912/@comment-1073312-20180512212920

As far as the old SporeWiki hub and SporeWiki-contributor servers are concerned, they are official channels that are moderated by the admins. Therefore, I don't think rule 8 is likely to be repealed in the interests of moderating minimal channels.

However, with the case of unofficial channels that are affiliated with SporeWiki and the main server, the original idea was that yes, users can create and moderate channels as they wish (and have done anyway), providing more freedom because those channels can be coordinated by consensus. People will migrate to what channels suit them. However the administrators on SporeWiki do not moderate nor do they endorse the content on those channels, so none of our rules apply. If users from those channels violate rules on the wiki, then of course they fall under the wiki's jurisdiction. This means that yes, rule 8 does not apply to unofficial channels because they are external platforms that are owned by users (we can't moderate anymore than we can moderate comments on other wiki's, or on Twitter, etc.). The two official channels of SporeWiki are owned by administrators who want to keep rule 8 and the others in check for obvious reasons.