Board Thread:Clean up Concerns/@comment-26204029-20160504192650/@comment-1969141-20160506161606

There is nothing wrong with voicing your concerns and explaining your points Joe. There was a discussion long before and we reached an agreement. Things are rolling along, but the discussion is still open. The categories are marked, but not yet deleted. Some of them might be kept if a point in their favour is made and taken.

I myself would lie if I said that I agree with all the changes, but I stated my points in the discussion and sometime, people agreed, sometimes I had to fold.

The reason why we decided to distance ourselves with TV Tropes is simple. We are fed up with having to deal with users thinking that since the name is the same, it should be done their way not ours. And since we are not the same kind of wiki, it cannot be.

Also, why we decided do weed out categories? Because we were forced to take drastic measures. As I said, we are fed up with some users who never bother writing or correcting articles and merely slap as many categories as possible in as many page as possible. We are fed up in trying to weed out entries that do not fit. Too many categories mean too many that we have to protect against flooding, misuse and plain trolling, and believe me, this is a PAIN.

Categories are meant as a short summary of the article, but these days, they are replacing articles. Back when I started here, 25 categories were a huge number. Now 30+ is far too common. There are categories for everything and it is too much. And it is messy, ugly and painful.