Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-421626-20190217111049/@comment-421626-20190218051200

Yeah, that's still not clearing it up. How are fetishes not a hobby, something that would have fans (or a fandom if you will)? It anything it's an exploration and appreciation for recurring tropes in various works. So long as the pages aren't violating the nudity or foul language problems what is the harm?

I mean brass tacks it's a very arbitrary and ill-defined line. I can see going against a wiki that exposes personal information, is just photos of naked bodies, or otherwise goes extremely hard R if not NC17 with its content, but wikis about games that contain sex as a main theme, and fetishes that don't require nudity? That's really splitting hairs. There's no safety being violated, and fandom already has clear rules about the nudity thing. If all else fails why not find a way to let them exist but locked off from core fandom? As it stands you're torpedoing dozens if not hundreds of wikis with potentially years of work put into them over overly abitrary. Besides, at least fetish wikis are honest.

Here's a scenario for you: a 10 year old kid connects to the marvel cinematic universe wiki, and happens to see a link to the Game of Thrones wiki. Curious, he checks it out, and about two pages later has been exposed to a fair bit of use of the F-word, something parents may not want their 10 year old to learn. Now, obviously, if a fetish wiki were to pop up in that feed, that would be bad too, I won't deny that, but surely a better solution is to find a way to classify the wikis with something like a safe search or new category than just scrap them, anger a bunch of users who put their free time into discussing something they're passionate about, and lose the moral highground in any future censorship discussions?