Thread:IFLOATEDINMSM/@comment-24577221-20160616184116/@comment-25404524-20160618213907

BunsenH wrote: Not quite. BBB has no official authority here, in terms of wiki "chain of command", so to speak. They can't dictate policy; they can't tell me/us how to manage the wiki or its users. I doubt very much if they would try, unless we did anything to make the games look bad. Obviously they want people to get as much as possible out of the games, so I suppose if we did things that interfere with the smooth running of this wiki, they might call attention to the matter to the wiki higher-ups, as a "you might want to look at this" rather than a "you must do something about this!" That isn't going to happen over a wiki user who persistently uses profanity and abuses other users.

BBB has absolute authority with regard to their material that is copyrighted or trademarked, worldwide, and that includes here. We must respect that. In this respect, they can tell us what to do, and could create a lot of trouble if we disregarded their wishes. As a matter of courtesy and minimizing trouble, we are proactive about that; that is, we don't wait for them to object.

On the whole, I think that BBB and this wiki have a pretty good working relationship. We add to the players' enjoyment of the game, and essentially provide another aspect of social media for the games for them for free. They provide us with some content such as good pictures. I don't know much about how this wiki started, but if one looks at the earliest history of some of the articles, it's clear that BBB was involved early on -- some of the monsters' descriptions come from BBB people. If you look at the ancient history of the Noggin page, for example, you can see that it was created on September 8th, 2012, and Myles added to it on September 19th. He added the stuff about the Noggins' hearing on the 24th. (The wiki was founded by No Numbers, who pretty clearly was not a BBB employee given that s/he misspelled the name of the company.)

Since I'm writing about "who orders whom", I must point out that semi-officially, I'm the deputy admin, deferring to Belthazar451. He has overruled my decisions once or twice. I am very sure that he will not in this case, assuming that someone were to bring the matter up with him.

How about that BBB copyright policy that I posted up?