Board Thread:General Wiki Discussion/@comment-29848568-20170917085808/@comment-29652084-20170917092957

Absolutely not. The blanket bans are there for a reason; around 99% of those banned subjects follow the exact same formula. These are not original subjects by any means and by having the blanket ban in place, we are not discouraging anyone from writing a certain way. We are encouraging originality.

But let's say we remove the blanket bans. How long will it be, especially with Halloween upcoming, before the wiki gets flooded with incessant 'X the Killer,' 'Eyeless/Brainless/Earless/Laughing X', 'XCharacter.EXE', etc, etc? Yeah, the quality standards should be all that matters - it doesn't matter if you've already read the exact same story fifty times already, it's got a good enough plot to stay!

Fuck. That. Cringey. Bullshit.

Those subjects are banned explicitly because people cannot resist ripping them off. If it's a formula and it's popular, it can and will be abused. And as new readers and users sort through all of that schlock, they'll inevitably miss the diamonds in the rough and original stories that good writers who are creative enough to use their imaginations have posted.

It's basically the reason I can't stand going on the Spinpasta Wiki anymore despite being it's only active bureaucrat. 99% of the stories there follow the same damn formula. I've more than once considered categorizing the few best stories on there (around 50, on the high end) and deleting everything else in a mass deletion spree.

TL;DR: the blanket bans explicitly ban subjects that  NEVER  meet the Quality Standards. Period.

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