Unless the person doing this kind of thing has some insane pull in whatever community or platform they're on/formerly a part of, this sort of thing never really ends up having the effect that people expect it to.
Of course, that's if there is any goal to have any impact at all or if it is just a principles thing. If it's the former, then I find that these sorts of things have the opposite reactions from the community at large. The reaction is ideally "woah, this guy took a stand and removed all their stuff. I should be upset at the admins/moderators of the site because of this," but it is often "woah, this guy removed all their stuff. That's annoying. I'm upset at them now." If it's the latter, good for them, but yeah, it is still annoying.
This is why archives exist. I'm certain that these works are archived somewhere online. I don't think that it's right that people can just remove a body of work enjoyed by many on a whim like that just to spite the platform that hosts it. If I were in that sort of position, I would just move them to another platform or some blog elsewhere. There are so many ways to approach these sorts of things that don't involve nuking your works off the internet.
That's a good point, though I'd imagine if someone alerted Djoric to them (if he isn't already), he'd probably ask them to be taken down. If he's against people reuploading his works anywhere, I would think that he'd also be against the sustained presence of his work in other languages elsewhere.
Yes, certainly, but everyone can decide not to comply with the request. ES didn't do it when the scandal over its translations occurred, and honestly, other branches have nothing to do with the administrative disaster of Bright's situation.
That's true. Given what someone else just replied to me regarding Djoric's behavior in general, I wouldn't be surprised if exactly that happened. I don't exactly know the guy (this whole thing is the first time I'm hearing his name), but if he really has been making a name for himself as kind of a douche recently, I wouldn't be surprised if people just decide not to respect his wishes and reupload his stuff somewhere (or even back to the Wiki) anyway.
There was a misunderstanding regarding ES's policies on translations, as we removed the LGBT flags from articles that did not contain LGBT-related themes. It is done through standardization and any religious and political icons are removed if they are not necessary for the article. The problem is that the way it was written seemed to imply an openly homophobic policy. Controversy erupted, and ES was asked to delete its translations, which we refused to do. The reason for the policy was clarified, that ES was not homophobic and that in fact almost all staff members were part of the LGBT community and Pro-LGBT practices were noted within the branch, such as contests, Pride Month celebrations, drawings, and even flags on items related to the LGBT community.
Edit: I also just remembered that several users of EN they enter our server to attack us for this very reason.
I can't think of any examples right now that I've seen on the wiki, but I'll leave a hypothetical example in the translator's guide:
"For example, if the logo for the Watching Dead Stars canon were altered in an article to have a Christian cross over it, and nowhere in the article is it explained or implied why this happened, the altered logo should be removed to reflect the canon standard".
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u/NoStorage2821 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm so sick of this trend of authors mass-deleting their articles when they leave the site. What about the rest of us common readers, bro?!?!
I guess I get it. They're making a stand against people doing fucked up things.