User blog comment:TheEmbracedOne/Announcement - Comments Have Been Disabled/@comment-43416271-20200417075401/@comment-31620988-20200417101820

"less things to moderate"

A lot of posts on Discussions have easily over 20-30 comments, there's a surprising, even shocking amount of activity over there.

I'll elaborate more on the reasons why we're disallowing certain content for clarity's sake:
 * Memes and shitposts - Probably self explanatory, these are the most low effort content there is. Might be funny for those who partake, but it tends to be a somewhat "inside joke" kind of club for the most part. People should be able to scroll down the Discussions section and find interesting topics about boss strategies, builds, etc, not have to scroll through various "hekkk" posts.
 * Fanart - it's difficult to enforce proper crediting of artists, just by going through Discussions back til November 2019, a lot of fanart posts were just titled "I just found this". There are platforms dedicated to posting fanart, we would like to filter these kinds of posts out.
 * Same goes for OC and fanfic.
 * Advertising commissions, services or any social medias (youtube, twitch, twitter etc) again, does not belong on a wiki.

The entire purpose of this decision and these guidelines is to uphold a certain level of quality in the Discussions. A topic titled "I did it" or "Finally beat [boss]" may spark conversation, but most replies will just be "congrats" and the thread will die quickly: https://hollowknight.fandom.com/f/p/3102122304340512354 https://hollowknight.fandom.com/f/p/3102122304340512358

Instead, imagine the topic titled instead along the lines of "What did you find the most difficult about beating [boss]?" or "How long did it take you to beat [boss] and what tactic finally did it for you?" - the discussion will now be about the tactics and boss behaviour: https://hollowknight.fandom.com/f/p/3102122304340512930