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Please strictly ban all forms of writeshit from boards that don't specifically house it, and ideally make a global announcement, mod post, and/or rule specifically against it. This includes fanfiction, quest/roleplay shit outside /tg/, and most/all greentext stories barring specific cases where it's on-topic like describing an actual gameplay experience on /v/.

Setting aside that it's blatantly off-topic in virtually all cases, any threads where it's allowed to take root becomes an off-topic circlejerk where a handful of people clog up entire threads with stories, reposts, and requests, making any kind of extended discussion virtually impossible. Obviously, this also causes people to make endless generals because they're no longer discussing the content of the topic but rather loosely related shit that is based on said topic.

Prime current examples can be seen in /a/'s Monster Girl threads (which currently already has a /qa/ thread >>365996) and /co/'s RWBY threads (which have had /qa/ threads previously). Probably more, but those are the notorious examples that nobody on their respective boards wants to be there.

For virtually every fanbase that has needed to be forcefully evicted from boards such as /a/ and /co/, writeshit has been the main cause. Drawfags have to stay contained within their own general on a given board specifically because they derail threads, Writefags being given more freedom despite being less desirable and more detrimental is absurd. I personally think they shouldn't be on the site whatsoever, but this shit is not going to stop without harsh moderator action and/or collaboration from users.

Any anons should be doing their part and reporting this shit on sight. It's already considered off topic in nearly all cases and gets deleted. Even if you don't regularly report things, this is one of the few cases where it WILL be acted on with high regularity and thus is worth your time.