@vorticity
I just read the answer you were given, and to be honest, it reads like an attempt to not sound dictatorial and a lame dodge at the same time.
True, as webmaster, Fast Eddie does exercise final authority, but at the same time the very raison d'etre (reason for being) of a wiki means it's ownership is a collective one in that no one "owns" the articles per se, they are a mass donation to be caretaken by the site webmaster to further to spread of whatever knowledge the wiki is supposed to promulgate.
In this case, you actually caught the moderator with a trick question. He couldn't outright say "if you don't follow the rules , you're banned", because you had a totally valid point concerning the very point to hosting a wiki, but at the same time he refused to implicate FE's decisions as wrong, for reasons that should be obvious.
Honestly, I already feel the answer is obvious. A commons takes too much authority away from the moderators and especially the site admin, hence they don't want to admit TV Tropes is exactly that, despite its licensing.
I just read the answer you were given, and to be honest, it reads like an attempt to not sound dictatorial and a lame dodge at the same time.
True, as webmaster, Fast Eddie does exercise final authority, but at the same time the very raison d'etre (reason for being) of a wiki means it's ownership is a collective one in that no one "owns" the articles per se, they are a mass donation to be caretaken by the site webmaster to further to spread of whatever knowledge the wiki is supposed to promulgate.
In this case, you actually caught the moderator with a trick question. He couldn't outright say "if you don't follow the rules , you're banned", because you had a totally valid point concerning the very point to hosting a wiki, but at the same time he refused to implicate FE's decisions as wrong, for reasons that should be obvious.
Honestly, I already feel the answer is obvious. A commons takes too much authority away from the moderators and especially the site admin, hence they don't want to admit TV Tropes is exactly that, despite its licensing.