Looking at a recent alias request, I wondered: why is it that, despite being highly discouraged, users (especially those with basic privileges) are allowed to request tag changes/BURs without providing any reason towards them? Even for terms and reasonings formed in a previous post, reasons are commonly used just to link to "see post #blablabla." As well as that, staff and other well-integrated members will still give reasons about as well as everyone else.

Is there some worst-case-scenario factor that I'm not realising here, or is it just a thing that nobody's gotten to? An archaic import from the Booru architecture, perhaps?

P.S: Wow, some nasty drama came up when trying to locate any previous discussion on this topic. Doing such is a real walk down the memory lanesssß...

Reason: We are about to experience World War III.

funeralopolite said:
As well as that, staff and other well-integrated members will still give reasons about as well as everyone else.

Other people shouldn't have to do the homework for you.

I'd say the big reason why Reason-free requests are able to be posted is that no means of requiring Reasons to be part of the initial posting has been implemented yet. For now, we rely on the honor system to get users to add them in. However, if a user is continually ignoring all requests to put in a Reason, no matter how blatantly obvious, they can and will get a record and even get banned.

funeralopolite said:
I wondered: why is it that, despite being highly discouraged, users (especially those with basic privileges) are allowed to request tag changes/BURs without providing any reason towards them?

They are not allowed. Those who fail to provide any reasoning whatsoever get warned first, and repeat offenders get slapped with Abuse of Site Tools.

I had proposed for mandating reasoning behind every tag alias/implication suggestion (see topic #29981) but it has not been implemented yet.

thegreatwolfgang said:
They are not allowed. Those who fail to provide any reasoning whatsoever get warned first, and repeat offenders get slapped with Abuse of Site Tools.

I had proposed for mandating reasoning behind every tag alias/implication suggestion (see topic #29981) but it has not been implemented yet.

Even cases of including a reason but telling people to verify it on their own are getting warnings now.

I never provide a reason why I change anything
unless I absolutely feel the need to do so in a case where a moderator may check.
In those cases, I try to state my reason clearly. But I rarely feel the need to do this as they're just
minor tag changes and applying small notes.

my wikis, well, some words for some things just can't be left blank, I guess