[Wikimedia-l] TVTropes deletes all pages with "Rape" in title under advertising pressure.

geni geniice at gmail.com
Tue Jun 26 19:47:44 UTC 2012


On 26 June 2012 20:30, Andreas Kolbe <jayen466 at gmail.com> wrote:
> As far as I can make out, the problem was that they could no longer keep up
> with moderating these pages, and that the content turned creepier and
> creepier.


Its more complicated than that. Apart from anything else TVTropes have
been drifting in the direction  of being less lively and more
straitlaced for some time. Clearing out the adult stuff is just part
of the ongoing pattern.

-- 
geni



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