User:Defiant Elements/YAV

This is in preparation for a revamp of YAV (feel free to contribute your thoughts on the talk page)

What YAV means

 * All (good faith) user contributions are valuable regardless of:
 * The user's status (Admin, anon, etc.).
 * The user's number of edits.
 * When the user joined.
 * As such, users are encouraged to be bold.
 * Users should not deprecate themselves on the basis of their status, etc.

What YAV does not mean

 * YAV cannot inherently make a user valuable, either a user is valuable or not (however, the aforementioned criteria should not be taken into consideration when determining a user's value).
 * YAV doesn't mean that a user's history of contributions will not be taken into consideration.
 * While all arguments should be considered independent of the author, not all arguments have (or should have) equal clout.
 * Disagreements are not violations of YAV.
 * Similarly, users should not poison the well by insinuating that another user's argument is in violation of YAV.