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| ::::::Well, largely because it's a "slippery slope" argument. Assuming a chain of events will be triggered by a single action is usually no more than, well, an assumption. There's no way it can be proven or disproven, and when presented in an argument is usually ignored for this reason. | | ::::::Well, largely because it's a "slippery slope" argument. Assuming a chain of events will be triggered by a single action is usually no more than, well, an assumption. There's no way it can be proven or disproven, and when presented in an argument is usually ignored for this reason. |
| ::::::It's no different from saying, for example, allowing homosexuality will result in everyone in the world being influenced into becoming homosexual. Can you prove this will or will not happen? Not until it does. <small>---Preceding unsigned comment added by [[Special:MyPage|you]]. Or maybe [[User:DatNuttyKid|DatNuttyKid]].</small> 22:41, 4 February 2016 (EST) | | ::::::It's no different from saying, for example, allowing homosexuality will result in everyone in the world being influenced into becoming homosexual. Can you prove this will or will not happen? Not until it does. <small>---Preceding unsigned comment added by [[Special:MyPage|you]]. Or maybe [[User:DatNuttyKid|DatNuttyKid]].</small> 22:41, 4 February 2016 (EST) |
| :::::::[http://skepdic.com/slipperyslope.html These guys say it better than I can.] <small>---Preceding unsigned comment added by [[Special:MyPage|you]]. Or maybe [[User:DatNuttyKid|DatNuttyKid]].</small> 22:42, 4 February 2016 (EST)
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| ::::::::Eh even then, Serpent does have a good point about the fact that they haven't been vandalized much. I haven't seen many myself other than the examples he listed. [[User:Disaster Flare|<span style="color:Green; text-shadow: 0px 0px 3px green">'''Disaster'''</span> <span style="color:Blue;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px blue">'''Flare'''</span>]] [[File:Disaster Flare signature image.png|20px]] ''[[User talk:Disaster Flare|<span style="color:SkyBlue;text-shadow:0px 0px 3px skyblue">(talk)</span>]]'' 22:43, 4 February 2016 (EST)
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| (reset indent) I do see why it would be unnecessary and am fine with it not being protected, I just don't like it when people use improper arguments. (Or improper anything really.) <small>---Preceding unsigned comment added by [[Special:MyPage|you]]. Or maybe [[User:DatNuttyKid|DatNuttyKid]].</small> 22:48, 4 February 2016 (EST)
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| :Perhaps you should review your own behavior then...I'm sorry, I just find this very hypocritical. <span style="font-family:Monotype Corsiva; font-size:12pt">[[User:Serpent King|<span style="color:#083">'''Serpent'''</span>]] [[File:SKSig.png|16px|link=]] [[User talk:Serpent King|<span style="color:#ed0;">'''King'''</span></span>]] 22:52, 4 February 2016 (EST)
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| ::Context would be nice instead of just claiming I'm a terrible person/hypocrite. Can't exactly improve if I don't know what you're talking about. <small>---Preceding unsigned comment added by [[Special:MyPage|you]]. Or maybe [[User:DatNuttyKid|DatNuttyKid]].</small> 12:47, 5 February 2016 (EST)
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| :::Might as well explain. ''Why'' are we letting IPs and the like edit? Policy pages are very important. If changed, it can affect the very behavior of Smashwiki.Now, change a paragraph of a page, that doesn't change that,does it? Also, we pretty much enforce this already. When was the last time an IP edited a policy page that didn't get reverted? Also,DatNuttyKid,I think Serpent thought the proposal change was hypocritical,not you. [[User talk:Penro|Please leave a message for]] [[User:Penro|'''Penro''']] [[User talk:Penro|when you see something wrong I did.]] [[File:PenroDarkPitHead.png|19px]] [[File:PenroZSSHead.png|19px]] 16:43, 5 February 2016 (EST)
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| The general wiki attitude is "protect only when necessary". Is it necessary to automatically protect all policy pages? I don't think so. IPs and such can still notice and correct spelling mistakes and the like. Someone can add something because they aren't aware of the discussion protocol, which may spring discussion of whatever was changed. Because protection isn't the default, it'll be a pain to go through and change everything, and subsequently a pain to remember to do so for any new such pages. Compared to the relative infrequency that such pages get changed even by good-faith users, I don't think protection for everything is a good idea. [[User:Toomai|Toomai]] [[User talk:Toomai|Glittershine]] [[Image:Toomai.png|20px|link=User:Toomai/Bin|???]] The Rainbow 16:53, 5 February 2016 (EST)
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| :Makes sense. <small>---Preceding unsigned comment added by [[Special:MyPage|<font color="magenta">cupid♥</font>]]. Or maybe [[User:DatNuttyKid|DatNuttyKid]].</small> 19:45, 5 February 2016 (EST)
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