I can't go back while things are the way they are. Most of my friends have already left there, and lots of people still there are afraid to edit anything new for fear of running afoul of the new culture police. I've been told that, since I left last month, things have gotten worse, if it can be imagined. Lots of pages and works are being deleted, with a preference for American works over other Western works, and Western works over Asian works. The P5 committee is eagerly deletionist and openly brags about it. They routinely belittle users over legitimate cultural differences, further souring the site's atmosphere and driving users away. And I've been told that, now, when a page is deleted, all references are deleted, and no one is allowed to mention that it ever existed...unbelievable. No one is allowed to dispute the new policy, and forum threads are routinely locked or deleted, or thread posts blanked for criticism.

TV Tropes is a site that attracted a lot of people with a respect for diverse legitimate literature, including edgy works, and works that are controversial in the U.S. but not in their country of origin. Now the policy is that TV Tropes must only advance a specific moralistic American cultural view - one that is actually very hard for people like me to intuit since I've long been such a free spirit with so many international(ist) friends in an international culture-neutral atmosphere, and I'm generally unconcerned with whether Americans approve of something or not. It's intolerable to be forced to consider that with every little edit.

...I sank so much work into improving that site, since 2008. I sorely miss the activity. I always strove to be civil, helpful, respectful - I was so loyal to the site. I don't want "an alternative site for the banned stuff". I want a general troping site where diverse editors of good faith can document all kinds of works out there, from tame to mature and everything inbetween. And I miss the sense of free-spirited respectful community. The new policy shattered that community. Even if another site were to clone the wiki's database wholesale and make it separately editable, it would mean nothing if the cloned wiki has all of three or four editors - that's not a community.