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[Morganite]

I don't want to see ATT's administration be eventually faced with the same problem that confronted the administrations of Reddit and TVT last year: a large section of rather unsavory types, hidden within the overall community, that hadn't been properly handled for so long that it required outside intervention (whether from SA, Google, some other source(s), or a combination) in order to force the admins to finally do something about them.

Frankly, I'm not convinced that these "unsavory types" actually amounted to all that much. Anything looks big when you hold a magnifying glass up to it, and SA is very, very good at that. (And given that site's status as "a wretched hive of scum and villainy"*, their 'intervention' is highly suspicious in and of itself.) In the long run, I think TVT's forums have been a greater threat to the site than any content that was ever on the wiki. And we're not going to have forums, which while not a decision I entirely agree with does head that problem off at the pass.

*And I say this as someone who shelled out money for an account there.

* Troper Tales/Fetish Fuel pages are, frankly, more trouble than they are worth. Okay, some of the more inoffensive Tropers Tales weren't bad, but some were just questionable, and the Fetish Fuel.....yeesh, that was a cesspit. I could really live without them if I had to. Besides, I have some of them archived on the TMW, and after reading some of them, I am currently contemplating their removal.

Personally, I thought both could be a lot of fun. But, again, that job has already been taken up elsewhere. While neither of the TT wikis seem to be particularly thriving, that doesn't seem like enough reason for us to pick it up too.

I have continued to remove any content that was illegally imported from after June 2012 since I respect copyright laws (something my predecessors on the Tropes Mirror Wiki apparently did not).

That's something to be a bit cautious with, since someone the person who added the material to TVT originally can add it to other wikis without violating the license. (Though FE changing the site's license in midstream is screwy enough that I don't have much respect for it.)

* From what I gather, many people are hesitant of joining Wikia because they feel Wikia would constrain their creativity and impose censorship:

It's really more because they're a bunch of jerks. Check out http://complaintwiki.org/wiki/Main_Page for information.

I agree with the No Lewdness/No Prudishness policy -- though I hate the name.

Personally, something about the way they they go at it has always bugged me, but I've never been able to put my finger on why. (And it'd probably be a bad idea to use the phrase directly anyway.)

Though I do like the word "lewdness". "Lascivious" is pretty good too, even if I've never been quite sure how to pronounce it.

-Morgan. For that matter, I'm a bit fuzzy on what it means...