Talk:Ten Virtues/@comment-7263041-20150425004103/@comment-4681356-20150426115353

Nothing is intrinsically wrong with the article at face value, though I'm glad you asked, because I proposed the article for deletion (rather than simply deleting it, along with the others) because I wanted to open a dialogue about the subject.

The objectionable part of this page, and why I proposed the article for deletion, is that it is the literature of a scam (RAOK). RAOK was a scam designed to solicit donations from people which he'd keep. The server knows it is a scam, and the author has even admitted on several occasions that it was a scam, a scam that he claims to intend to recreate (and scam more).

Regardless of whether or not the text is benign (it appears to be entirely benign on this particular page), it was part of a wider racket through which a lot of people were swindled, and so it seems to me that it is a bit insensitive to keep any associated pages up. Further, the spirit of the wikia, I think, is celebratory and informative, and if you don't mind me saying, a bit boastful of the good people that can be found here. I can't see how scam-related pages in any way do anything except harm to the purpose of the wikia (as I see it) and might be celebrating the wrong things.

Obviously, in the macro scale, this page really matters very little, and one can hope that it will not cause much offense to anyone. But I think there is a precedent to set that is necessary to the ethos of the project. Sure, many of us disagree, many of us bitterly, but it is an open project to those that disagree with one another... but that it is not an open project to one if one is trying to use role-play and such like that to deliberately and indiscriminately con the people of the server. Somewhere, we have to draw a line, and I think blatant scamming-related material is well over the line, where ever it is.