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:We want to create a place where people are free to offer literary criticism (and in-jokes) about any work of fiction -- not just those that are approved as goodthink by the [[Censorship Bureau]]. This doesn't mean that we are free from censorship either -- we just have much less. Sexually explicit material will be removed, but discussion of explicit works is encouraged. |
:We want to create a place where people are free to offer literary criticism (and in-jokes) about any work of fiction -- not just those that are approved as goodthink by the [[Censorship Bureau]]. This doesn't mean that we are free from censorship either -- we just have much less. Sexually explicit material will be removed, but discussion of explicit works is encouraged. |
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:This policy derives from our sense of [ |
:This policy derives from our sense of [[wikipedia:Academic freedom|Academic freedom]] -- the idea that no researcher should be barred from any field of inquiry. While we're a lot less formal than a scientific paper, we believe that there is value to be had in looking at the tropes in famous works like ''[[Deep Throat]]'', ''[[La Blue Girl]]'', and ''[[Lolita]]'' (yes, even that was briefly banned). These works may be popular with some, but they address an important part of the human condition. |
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:While Fast Eddie [https://images.encyclopediadramatica.es/6/6b/Fast_Eddie%27s_epic_asspain.png has described] the Creative Commons license used on TV Tropes as a source of "stealing because you can" and "straight up plagiarism", we believe that community content creation is good for the community. You can see the results of such collaboration on websites like [[ |
:While Fast Eddie [https://images.encyclopediadramatica.es/6/6b/Fast_Eddie%27s_epic_asspain.png has described] the Creative Commons license used on TV Tropes as a source of "stealing because you can" and "straight up plagiarism", we believe that community content creation is good for the community. You can see the results of such collaboration on websites like [[Wikipedia]], see Flickr photos incorporated into ''[[Irregular Webcomic]]'', or read community-writen works like in ''[[Fenspace]]'''s wiki. Sharing the content widely drives even more creativity. |
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:We're 100% non-profit, so we could easily take the content from the current version of TV Tropes with its non-commercial license. We choose not to do so, because we want the knowledge on our site, such as it is, to be as freely available as possible. Instead, we use the same Creative Commons license as Wikipedia, so that content may be freely interchanged between our two sites and through any other means. |
:We're 100% non-profit, so we could easily take the content from the current version of TV Tropes with its non-commercial license. We choose not to do so, because we want the knowledge on our site, such as it is, to be as freely available as possible. Instead, we use the same Creative Commons license as Wikipedia, so that content may be freely interchanged between our two sites and through any other means. |
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