Board Thread:Administration/@comment-24376429-20140208190533/@comment-10950063-20140208195359

ClericofMadness wrote:

That's the basis of censorship. To delete to silence or oppress. You call the stories bad, but when you can pick them apart for the terrible stories that they are and give good, literary reasons why the story is bad it will always look like censorship to everyone.

This is higher than me wanting to keep classics around. These actions echo far across the internet and deleting classics will have a negative ripple echo around forever. I can only warn you of the rammifications these actions will have. By this definition, any kind of quality control is censorship. We should be consistent with our judgements. Either we hold everything to the standards of quality or we don't hold anything to it. Just because something is old doesn't mean it's worth preserving if it doesn't have significant value.

Lead paint was a really nice and durable paint. It also tasted sweet, so children would eat it and get lead poisoning. No one stood around saying, "Yeah, but the kids like it so much and we've been using it for centuries."

Jeff the Killer is our lead paint. People like it, but in the long run it isn't good. The only difference between Jeff and lead paint is that lead paint had positive qualities aside from giving children brain damage and kidney failure.

And I don't understand the last part at all. Really? Deleting things like Jeff will EFFECT THE INTERNET FOREVER? Why? How? What ramifications? What's going to happen? You seem to have information that you're not sharing.