Thread:Brandon Rhea/@comment-421626-20190217111049/@comment-20644-20190218025830

Thanks for that. I can see where there might be some confusion, including in the comparison to Game of Thrones, about what our stance actually is.

Personally “family friendly” is not the term I would have used (and it sounds like Sannse has said that's a too bit broad as well). There’s plenty of topics, like Game of Thrones, in the world of pop culture that don’t qualify. And if we were just doing this to be family friendly, then there’s a ton of pop culture we’d have to leave out. Arguably in today’s day and age a PG-13 movie is often not family friendly.

What it comes down to is the intention of the wiki and the intention of the reader. In the case of Game of Thrones, the intention of the editors of that wiki is to document the lore of the show. The show just so happens to include sex and violence, being for mature audiences, but that’s not the point of the show. Likewise, readers are coming to the wiki looking for information about characters, settings, plots, and other lore. 99.999% of people there are arguably not going to the wiki to look for sexual content.

Neither of those things can be said for ecchi wikis or fetish wikis. They are intentionally documenting something sexual or otherwise erotic, and that’s what the readers of a wiki like that are intentionally looking for. There was a time when that was something we were okay with when Wikia was more of a general reference site, but Fandom is a site based on sharing fan knowledge about pop culture and hobbies. Communities that are intentionally about sexual or erotic content just doesn’t fit the brand of a site that's about sharing lore and general information about games, movies, TV shows, comics, books, or other hobbies.

So yes, I support the decision of Sannse and the Community team to not host these communities anymore. Hopefully this clears it up more, but otherwise if you have any other questions I'd suggest continuing the conversation with Sannse since she is leading up this site hygiene process.