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* [[Moral Guardians]]: Although they formally deny it, if one reads the threads in which wiki pages are reported and judged for possibly violating TVT's content restrictions, one will see that work pages are not judged by their content but by the work they describe. One will almost never see a discussion like "Will this page as written cause us trouble with Google Ads? Can we change it so that it doesn't?" Rather, the commentary is almost universally along the lines of "the work this page describes is offensive to me, we should not even acknowledge it exists" and decisions are made on that basis alone. Regardless of what they claim to the contrary, except in the cases of certain famous works whose removal would bring (and have brought) negative press attention, TVT imposes a moral standard for the works that are allowed to appear on the wiki. That standard is determined by the [[Lowest Common Denominator]] of [[Squick]] and/or prudery found among the [[Vocal Minority]] who report (and demand removal of) pages.

* [[The Moral Substitute]]: In the wake of the Second Google incident and the administrative efforts to [[Think of the Advertisers!|purge itself of revenue-threatening content]], other forks of TV Tropes arose as ostensible examples of this to the site, seeking to establish fairer rules and better treatment of users and preserve cut content from the site. TV Tropes administration also tried to portray the site as this in comparison to some or all the forks - see [[Big Lie]].

* [[Orwellian Editor]]: The moderation staff routinely deletes ''anything'' they don't like or that dares to disagree with their opinions ([[Unperson|They also delete those who do the disagreeing]]). Entire threads have been known to vanish when the subject matter ventures into areas that the mods simply don't want to be discussed. They are aided in this by PMWiki's bare-minimum history feature, which retains little more than the last couple dozen edits (let alone a full audit trail back to the page creator), and which provides no simple mechanism for restoring deletions.

** Plenty of tropers think they own the pages they edit and patrol them, changing/deleting anything they don't ''fully'' agree with. For example, rva98014 thinks they own every animated film page, earning the ire of several tropers. He has since been perma-banned for edit warring, one of a very small percentage of banned users that actually deserved it.