Board Thread:Administration/@comment-8-20140408223349/@comment-8-20140409162953

Fatal Disease wrote: I'm quite curious. This is just me throwing this out there, in a rhetorical statement to Guy's. I am curious if VSTF's can shut down a wiki? It's a stupid question, yes, but I am curious about it.

Sounds like a sensible question to me. And the answer is no. They don't have the ability or the authority. They also don't have the authority to deal with situations like this. They deal with spam and vandalism, and I wouldn't characterize this as either

Sure, it was a dead wiki (and there were hardly any pictures). But a regular user, like myself, doesn't have to go to the general contact in order to shut down a wiki, which the topic is against the TOU, when a VSTF had seen this wiki before I did, and not contacting the staff to shut it down.

It's gone now, so I can't look at the content, but it may be that it was too mild for us to consider a problem. We allow "bikini level nudity", and those bikinis can be very minimal (personally, this makes no sense to me, it's a piece of string that covers nothing! But, those are the limits we've gone for)

In general, VSTF report any problem wikis to us, and we assess and decide to close or not.

In this matter, yeah, calling someone the slur for a mentally handicapped person, or telling someone to go kill themselves, or anything downright derogatory is wrong. But taking it out on the user who decided to post it on his page, and providing the correct links to the user profiles within the quotes, is also wrong.

As I said, I can only look (generally) at what's reported to me... I simply ain't got the time to go digging for more