Board Thread:Site News and Announcements/@comment-24486926-20140105192505/@comment-1196539-20140108174210

CalasanX wrote:

I, Da Cashman wrote: Godzillafan01, Xelrog and Metafawker know what they're talking about. Sorry I lumped you in there, Meta. My bad. Calsan, I ain't trying to villanize you. But we gotta calm down on blacklisted subjects. Rickomorrow, I like your idea. Make it an interactive thing. Calasan* :3

Understand when I say that Rick and I know what we're talking about as well. We can cool down on Blacklisted subjects, but we can't just not blacklist anything ever. If we did that, the original, creative, and good works get overshadowed by the cliched and bad spin offs. As stated, I don't want to blacklist stories and subjects - but sometimes we have to. That... happens just as much completely regardless of whether or not subjects are blacklisted. It's just an inevitable part of the struggle of maintaining this site.

Anyway, I didn't have time to respond yesterday--as far as the poll idea goes, I think it would just complicate the process further without gaining us any real ground. We'd just encounter the same arguments all over again, and most likely, the majority would vote not to ban anything--which is against the interest of you, the staff.

What if we were to create a "submission form" that applied to certain "quarantined" topics? Functionally, it's the same as the current ban-and-appeal system... but it seems a lot less oppressive when people aren't vying to be exceptions to the rules. The way it's set up now, it kind of feels like the Nazi party providing a Jew an audience to "prove he's one of the good ones." Make it seem like it's just a staff review process, rather than an attempt to "slip by" an implemented rule.