Forum:CT:Removal of the Userbox Policy

Alright, recently I have seen a number of users break this policy because they put too many userboxes on their own userpage. A while back I remember there was a discussion about erasing this policy and several others that were pretty much useless and make this wikia more complicated to follow without problems, basically, Instruction Creep territory. In light of all these warnings, which may drive off users or give them a strike unnecessarily, I have finally decided to make this.

Now to the actually reasons why I think this is useless. The first rule mandates that users must keep their userbox count below twenty. I do not see the use for this rule other than to get others in trouble. Twenty userboxes, in most cases does not dominate a page and it does slow the page down too much nowadays with the broadband connections that dominate the world today. It also puts an unnecessary restriction on the customization of a user's "homepage". The userpage is/should be a domain that allows a user to express themselves within moral reason (No excessive profanity nor any erotica images and such). Also, currently, users like Goodwood are actually FAILING the policy and they don't even know it. That shows the obscurity and uselessness of a policy such as this, which is a perfect mix for trouble for newer users. The second half of that rule states that no GIF. files are allowed on the user page because it slows down narrowband&mdash;dial up&mdash;and slower broadband connections. I can see incorporating this in the MOS or something, but it is really an outdated rule in the respect that narrowband is all but extinct and it doesn't affect faster connections at all.

Now the second rule says that users NEED to make a subpage if they are going to have more than twenty images and they are allowed to have GIFs on them. If we are going to remove rule one, than rule two must go as well.

Comment and vote below. Voting lasts until 11:59pm Eastern Standard Time June 27th

Remove the Userbox policy(+1)

 * 1) Instruction creep, useless, etc.- I'm the Chosen One You must see it... 22:46, June 20, 2011 (UTC)