Board Thread:Help!/@comment-43874324-20200710191251/@comment-88790-20200828073139

My worry, coming at this from an admin's POV is...there's a many people who will use this as a means of attack / disruption for the wiki, and it's very hard to ask someone to 'justify X'. That's why I favour a blanket page like the ParentPage and then a page with supporting text for stories.

Your suggestion let volunteers (we're all editors / volunteers here), opens a huge box of problems. As you note the issues surrounding the validity of trypophobia. Once broadened out to dealing with users, those who are just being obtuse for the sake of it, difficult users or those who are pushing up against this, but not actually violating the policy it becomes a very difficult balancing act.

I try all of the time to assume good faith whenever anyone contributes, but have had a long time of editing on this wiki, so I look to these less than optimistic scenarios. This is why I'm keen to find another wiki that has tried this so we have a model to follow.

Because looking ahead I don't ee an easy way out of the problem, if there's a scenario where we have someone arguing for a tag on a particular page and we use a theoretical list to justify a yay/nay of the tag and we fall on the negative, but they're insistent that it is a problem and raise it on talk pages / forums that raises the possibility of needing to block them. And that is a bucket of problems of silencing someone who might actually have a real issue.

Now I know the alternative is a much more passive position, but the choice rests with the reader, not with us.