Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-5422312-20140128002612/@comment-24486926-20140129035111

Xelrog T. Apocalypse wrote: CalasanX wrote: LOLSKELETONS wrote: Xelrog's post made me think of a good point: Bans on certain subjects were mainly implemented on Creepypasta Wiki because the inflow of new submissions was (and still is) too much for our small team of admins/reviewers to handle without some sort of filter, and there are not as many people willing to help with quality control/reviewing as one might think. Even if it may seem silly to you to blacklist certain subjects, it is necessary to deal with the staggering number of bad submissions we get on a daily basis. Spinpasta Wiki, on the other hand, seems to be a fairly sleepy wiki, so MAYBE full-on blacklists aren't really necessary here. Before the ban on Sonic.exe, this was fairly active in terms of content. A lot of it was an influx of Sonic.exe stories- many of which got deleted. The amount of content overshadowed more original works, and attracted a number of trolls and idiots.

Unbanning it would allow for more activity, but at the same cost; an accostment of bad quality content and trolls.

That influx kind of became in inevitibility as soon as it was banned. Honestly, the reason the thing has survived this long (and part of the reason it's earned its place in history) is because it was banned. Once the lid is lifted and the eruption ends, people's obsession with the topic will finally be able to recede, and thus the cycle of rebirth begins, and we're up in arms over the next arbitrary topic the troll community (which is itself our real enemy) decides to flock to. You're missing the point. The influx of bad quality content was EXTREMELY lowered when Sonic.exe was banned. In fact, since, the wiki has actually been expanding. The trolls were attracted to Sonic.exe spin-offs, and without them to target, fell back. It also lowered the number of unfinished pages (for some reason, there were a few that were left in the category for a number of weeks.)

The benefits of leaving it banned STILL outweigh the risks. Same as it did when it was first banned.