Thread:ElsaRules!!!/@comment-28082245-20170101023549/@comment-5782071-20170209055351

I didn't assume he was a kid ONLY because of the series! I've read a bunch of books with a younger target audience. I assumed he was young because of his reading choices COMBINED with his poor grammar, attitude, manner of speaking, and his lack of understanding and coherency. He acted very young.

While i did find him taxing, i didn't want to push him away immediately because, guess what, i joined this site when i was around 13 or so. A little baby. If i was treated the same way he was i wouldn't be here today, i'd think you guys were a bunch of overly strict jerks. I didn't want to push someone who was only just starting to get into this fandom away because they might come to see this place as a family like i have. I've had a little experience with groups that were really strict (SCP wiki and Rhodochrosite's Court on DA) and instantly put me off. You can't blame a kid for acting like a kid, can you? Younger people don't have the same grasp on rules, grammar, logic, etc that we do, and you can't expect that of them. Some of you guys thought i was an adult when i joined because of the way i spoke, but i think I was just an exception to the normal behavior younger people exhibit.

Griff was, yes, a little annoying. But consider the idea that he was merely trying to show his interest in something new that he had no clue of how it worked by trying to combine it with something he did know, like his other shows. Our canon, our rules with grammar and such, aren't listed on the front page! Not like anyone actually looks at that anyway, but still. The way we do things here is extremely complicated, it would take most people days if not weeks to fully understand what we do, what we've done, and how we do it.

Another possibility is that, rather than being a kid, he's actually on the autism spectrum. I've had several people at my school who are in special needs programs and a lot of the time they can come off as a little annoying, but it isn't their fault and we can't hold them accountable in that case. People on the spectrum don't always do well with other people, but they do have a great interest in particular things like TV shows.

I'm just always wary about banning new people because, Per, Draco, not everyone can meet your standards and not everyone can act as reserved and mature and calculating as you like. I wouldn't be here if i acted any less mature for my age, and then where would i be? Where would this wiki be?