Board Thread:Important Stuff/@comment-27178869-20140529232310/@comment-24574398-20140530132838

Knowledgeable Marksman wrote: Because people still don't get it. If you post a comment on an article and it has nothing to do with it, your comment is irrelevant and it will be removed. However, your comment can be random so long as you're still talking about the subject of the article. A joke in response to a joke on an article is also irrelevant because this inevitably leads to an off-topic discussion. Now, let's list some examples.

On an article about birds:

"Cool monkeys."

Irrelevant.

On an article about a character:

"He smells."

Irrelevant (UNLESS the article talks about the character's personal hygiene).

On any articles:

"Hey [User] go on chat."

Irrelevant (we have message walls for a reason).

On an article about anything but has images:

"Hey what do you use to make those pictures?"

Relevant (the images are part of the article, and thus comments relating to them are relevant).

On the Bagel article:

"I eat bagels."

Irrelevant (you're talking about bagels, but you're not talking about the character Bagel so it's irrelevant).

On an article called Peter (the page doesn't exist):

"Peter."

Relevant, although this would technically be considered spam and get removed anyways.

If people keep violating this rule, It'll become a blockable offense. If you wanna joke around, we have chat (amongst other things). If you all think chat is useless, tell me now so I can disable our only true way of instant, coherent communication that connects the community. we always have the cloudsdale that i made