User blog:Squidnerd/The Damn Policy Is Too Big

Our policy is way too big.

Let's take it byte-size. At the time of Travis' election to the administration position on April 25, 2016, the policy was 4,049 bytes. Look at it now: 17,428 bytes. It has quadrupled in just an year and a half. However, the amount of "bad" incidents have stagnated or decreased, which pretty much destroys the good part of what rules do. But what rules do though—they hamper the democratic process. Just look at ESB. I'm an honors student and English yet I have no idea of half of the stuff AMK is talking about. If we don't change our ways now, we shall be the Democratic People's Republic of New SpongeBobia by 2020. But we can stop this, by tearing down all unnecessary rules. Now, I'm not saying we should go full-on anarchy—protecting spin-off's and community consensus are vital. But you know what's not vital? Inactivity policies, most proposal policies, voting policies, strict rating guidelines, need I go on? Anyways, let's make the SBFW be the epitome of simple and traditional values, just like it was in 2012-2015.

What This Will Do

 * Repeal Rule #4 From the Main Guidelines - SBCA recently passed a content ownership policy that pretty much covers the stuff in Rule #4, get rid of it.
 * Repeal Rule #6 From the Main Guidelines - This rule sets up an automatic rights review if a staff member violates SBFW policy, and the charged staff member would be barred from voting. However, this is really vague. If a staff member changes something rated R to PG-13, even though it qualifies as R, should there be a whole "hat and pony" show about it, because it's violating SBFW Policy? No, it's stupid. However, staff members are still role models for the wiki, and should have their block time extended by 50%. (For example, if a two week ban is instated on an admin for writing bigoted statements, it should be extended to three weeks.)
 * Transfer the Rating Guidelines to another page - It shouldn't be lumped into the whole policy, it's way too big.
 * Repeal the Promotion Policy, except for Rule #2 of the Application Process - It further hampers the democratic process. The entire section will be deleted, and Rule #2 of the Proposal Policy Application Process shall be transferred to be Rule #9 of the Proposal Policy.
 * Create the SpongeBob Fanon Ratings Administration as a successor to our hybrid MPAA one on February 13, 2017 - The SFRA will be created to be in charge of what is rated what, and determining if our current system is flawed. This would be created on February 13, 2018 to coincide with the first automatic user rights review, and the election for it's chairman will commence.