What Was the Nunnery? Why Was it Nuked?

I saw the headline on the side, and thought I'd inquire as to what it was and why it was nuked.

Hope this is in the right place to do so.

The nunnery was the site's only sex thread.

It was taken down because someone reported it to Google, and they suspended a month's worth of revenue because of it.

edited 22nd May '14 12:01:48 AM by BaconManiac5000

Oh dear. I don't know what went on at the Nunnery, but I am sorry that anything had to be taken down. I wonder who could have reported it and why. I had no idea it existed and I've been on here for several months, so it must be a person who wanted to be there.

That's a shame. But what must be done must be done I suppose. Aww. :(

According to Google's cache (ironic, yeah?), the thread had 390,906 posts before it was deleted.

...weren't the forums supposed to be behind some kind of deep-web barrier, like trope pages flagged as Google-unsafe? Or am I out of the loop again, and was the entire "flag as Google-unsafe" thing removed too when we dropped the second part of No Lewdness No Prudishness?

edited 22nd May '14 3:28:55 AM by Medinoc

I doubt that the last part of that policy was dropped, but I believe that we ought to wait for official word on this.

Oh, sorry, I mean "since The Second Google Incident". Kids these days can't take hyperbole or what it felt like at the time...

edited 22nd May '14 3:53:10 AM by Medinoc

Google's cache has a copy of its last page(don't know if THE last) from May 20th; I'm pretty sure that means that one could access it without getting registered.

(found it by Googling 'site:tvtropes.org nunnery')

edited 31st May '14 6:48:15 PM by ManInGray

Thats too bad: Tvtropes has such a nice atmosphere i love the forums here, even tho i mostly just read them

i can never find anyplace with a good attitude and friendly people that isnt also super strict about topics :/ not tvtropes fault, of course, i know you need google revenue

but i wish we could keep it

I never understood who thought it was a good idea to clump everything sexual into one thread. That's just asking for trouble, guys.

Well, there was a hentai thread for a while, but that got nuked a couple years ago for a number of reasons, not least being constant and flagrant violation of the "Don't post porn links" rule.

Because if everything sexual is in one thread, there would be very little sexual stuff in other threads.

I'm not sure I understand the logic behind this. Why is one thread for everything better for this than multiple threads for different things, which would've been infinitely better?

Because there were far more people who didn't want to have to wade through other people talking about sex, than there were people who wanted to talk about sex, or how horny they were, or when they masturbated last, or what anime character they thought was hot.

It worked, too, for the most part.

The idea was to have all the sex talk in the same thread so that it wouldn't be derailing other threads. We've pretty consistently stuck to the idea that there's one thread for one subject, and with the sex talk we wanted to be particularly sure to not have it spill over into other threads.

Anyway, I'm wondering if there's any point keeping this thread open - the question's been answered.

EDIT: 'd by FOOOOOOOX!!!

edited 26th May '14 4:29:38 PM by BestOf

My apologies, but that was a rather mangled explanation. What do you mean, exactly?

Having mega threads for everything generally isn't a good idea. You could likely get away with that for certain things like specific works of fiction or ongoing debates or stuff, but something as vague as sex?

edited 26th May '14 3:58:27 PM by LightPhaser

In fact, it worked quite well, thank you.

And Best of is right: the question's been answered, and anything more is really just Monday-morning quarterbacking. Locking this up.