That's not the intent of that rule. How are we supposed to establish that a person being contacted "feels harassed or pestered" by you in particular?
Then what's the point of saying off-site behavior aren't relevant unless they do harm? Does that mean anyone who asks authors a questions aren't allowed on site? Again, I find it a bit unfair to ban all WoG because of me when most of WoG statements aren't from me
Such a standard would be asinine and nigh-impossible to meet. That's why the end of the paragraph you quoted says "Thus, it is frowned upon to bother them over these topics."
No other staff commented on whether your justification made the asking of questions not against the rules.
You initially claimed that questions were allowed to pass due to regular Q&A events. I argued that was wrong, and now you are saying "they answer Q&A questions sometime".
I did not argue they "answer Q&A sometimes". I said they still do, and always do. And according to site rules, we allow supportive or clarifying WoG statements, which are what the ones I used on site were for
- Author statements will only be accepted when they clarify what has been shown or implied in the series itself, and will be rejected when they contradict what has been shown to the audience. Statements that technically do not contradict anything shown in the series will still be rejected if there is no evidence that they are accurate.
That is a different claim; what you just did is a
motte-and-bailey fallacy.
Okay, you've pushed the date of Q&A events to 2022.
Read again what I said about the newer writer. Tommy is the older writer of Ninjago while otherland/Doc is the newer one, and he said everything answered before was canon. I think the author using a plateform mainly to answer questions from fans should be relevant
You initially claimed it was a regular Q&A event. I argued that was wrong, and now you are saying "they say they enjoy answering questions". This is even further removed from anything that would be relevant.
Actually, Q&A or not, the specific question u pointed out isn't leading at all
"Is Source Power stronger than Elemental Powers/Essences"
"Source Energy is the Source of Elemental Power"
(Zero relation to strength here and besides its stated in the show too)
I can prove the same for the other statements from
me used in the wiki for justifications for Ninjago:
1.
Zur speed amp: Legit used to confirm the validity of a statement from a secondary source guidebook (the other answer questions in the pic aren't used on site btw which is why I don't address them)
2.
Grasslands being BDE: Asked the writer a question about higher plane for clarifying something said in the show (which was that Nether Space was more more permanent than the Departed Realm), with him answering that its due to people not returning from it cuz it was outside the Realm (yet again, the answer has 0 connection to "higher plane of existence" and is also supported in show, which is why I think it fits for "
Author statements will only be accepted when they clarify what has been shown or implied in the series itself")
Every other WoG stuff used on site for Ninjago aren't from me
Your initial claim was that none of them were asked by you. I demonstrated that was false, and now you've retreated, to saying it was only that one.
I precised "especially the magic one"
Well, looking at the other WoG in the thread (a difficult endeavour, since they were directly linked, without providing the screenshots and archive links we prefer to keep good record of these) I find
this answer, where the original question post was deleted, yet I see a reply from you, seemingly continuing on to ask a different question.
The deleted question isn't from me
Out of four linked bits of WoG, I could confirm that one was from you, could confirm that one wasn't from you, and the origin of the other two are unclear, but one of those does have you continuing to ask another question.
There genually not anything wrong done with my question here
I don't find pointing out, at worst, a 1/4 rate to be "nitpicking for the sake of banning".
The claim willingly ignored everything said after the message where the final staff decision was made. Yes, its nitpicking
Go ahead and report 'em, we receive and seriously consider reports even from banned members.
How am I supposed to contact staff while Im banned (if I do get banned) ?
I have literally no idea what you're talking about. All I can think of is
this thread but you weren't even in it. Plus I wasn't one of the staff members that initially reviewed/discussed this decision.
Its due to me saying in a LMK thread that I wanted to make a staff thread cuz I disagreed with your hax reasoning, and the opposition "mysteriously" reports me 1 day later (not the first time for 1 of them), but ig its another story I won't extend too much on since its not on topic with my case
Admittedly, our written rules do perhaps seem to be missing context. Of course, it is especially harassing them that violates our rules. Also, pestering is more so a tamer version of harassment as harassment refers to giving someone severe trouble or intimidation. Where as pestering is a synonym for bugging/bothering them or distracting them from more important duties or more personal life styles. And even if someone was genuinely polite to the author or if the author doesn't mind the question on a personal level, a psychological manipulation to basically get them to approve something that isn't really any of there business for the sake of massively highballing or lowballing a verse is against the rules as well. There's nothing wrong with asking simple questions to get simple responses; such as a character's official height and weight or the dimensions of an iconic ship or steed. But the first thing we need to realize before contacting authors is that they are not debaters/powerscalers themselves and probably dislike the battle boarding community altogether.
Ah alright, I really dont think it's my fault tho that I percieved the rule differently since you mentioned it's missing context