QUOTE(Moulton @ Mon 17th May 2010, 10:34am)
I'd love to chat with Seth about his thoughts on the fundamental design flaw that fails to map out "a boundary between provocative and profane."
I think the problem is that Wikipedia is biased in favor of keeping any explicit content out of fear of "censorship". Personally I don't have a problem with explicit content being on WP - I have a problem with useless content (whether it's pornographic or not).
Wikipedia's problem isn't that it contains any graphic images. Keeping porn just because it's porn is where WP fails. The Wikipediots are so afraid of being guilty of "censorship" that they go up in arms any time someone suggests deleting some random guy's homemade penis pics from Commons. And because of this, users can basically use it as free porn hosting service (a violation of WM policy) - if they just shout "censorship!" enough, no admin will be brave enough to delete their porno.
For that matter, this attitude is really a site wide problem (it doesn't just come out when deleting porn is concerned). Any time a person favors removing any type of content that the Inclusionidiots like, they'll ignore the arguments and chant "censorship/WP:IDONTLIKEIT/bad faith/POV" in unison until that person is labeled a "disruptor" and either told to "STFU" or outright banned because they couldn't yell as loudly as the mob.
All in all, the community is a complete joke, and the head haunchos are too afraid of losing members to make an effort to improve the editing standards of the site. I don't see any real incentive for them to crack down on the community either, since moronic editors are a dime-a-dozen compared to serious ones. More editors = more edits = more site hits = more donation money. So where's the incentive for Jimbo to improve site standards (and lose droves of morons in the process?) I don't see it.