Thread:Sannse/@comment-5112652-20190403171152/@comment-1517120-20190411015708

The problem I see with this whole "removing the problematic content" thing is how arbitrary all of it is. The staff have said in the past that it's an "I know it when I see it" scenario, and that really is not well-described enough to know just how problematic something has to be in order to warrant removal. Also, considering the size of the wiki, I have no idea how you guys plan to remove all such content. Manual searching? Searching for certain problematic keywords? I really can't fathom how it would be done.

Honestly, I wouldn't be surprised if the wiki stayed locked, and I doubt Fandom staff are just going to "change their minds" about something they obviously had to come to a firm consensus on. The founder of LyricWiki even posted this tweet, which seemed to further cement that this is a permanent move.

I've taken a week to come to terms with this news, but perhaps it's easier for me to handle due to this only being one of several lyric sites I edit on. If I need to migrate to sites that don't censor their content, so be it - most lyric sites copy each other to begin with. If the wiki did get unlocked, there's a high chance that people may look for this "problematic" content, notice that it doesn't have a page and recreate it, not knowing that it's not allowed on the wiki - so I don't see how this could ever see a permanent fix.

Here's the crux of all of this: a music site is bound to have inappropriate content if you're going to encompass all genres of music. I mean, how "family-friendly" do we need to get? What about songs with severe profanity, but without anything racist/bigoted/violent/whatever? It cuts out a lot of stuff, and I don't see how it could possibly function under these current rules if it were to resume.