Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-29955469-20170511023725/@comment-29955469-20170511205328

Since we've all decided to go through with attributing images, I have renamed the topic to talk about the remaining elephant in the room. Only 1 person here has said anything about addressing parody kaiju. (Another person agreed with me but hasn't said anything about it here presumably to not ignite some sort of nonsense war, which isn't what I am looking for.)

No, his isn't anything against you Cdr, you just hold the monopoly on these joke monsters. If I made monsters called "Ugly Mothra" or "Super Obamazilla" I myself would also very much want them to be distinguished from the rest of the kaiju people put effort into, and that are serious kaiju that aren't just one-use punchlines or rants against fandoms I don't like. Even if I make "Donaguirus Trump" and fill it with political rants and tried to excuse it, I wouldn't want that to be treated with the same seriousness as the kaiju that other users make which they put thought behind. Also, good job on having real monsters, I wasn't talking about those.

I want to apologize for if I seem to have it out for you, but think of it like this: if a random user made an account and started making kaiju pages for POOP GODZILLA, POOP GHIDORAH, POOP -every kaiju ever- and then just cobbled an incoherent backstory for it and slapped "Parody Kaiju" on it, would that be acceptable? Would everyone be happy and dandy if a non-bureaucrat user made 600 "Satan Godzilla" pages that are intentionally poor photoshops? Is that really a good joke? This literally brings down the quality of this wiki.

It's absolutely fine if we don't remove these joke kaiju as long as we make it clear these are not on the same level as what other people, who do put effort into their monsters make. It really doesn't take much for someone to put a PNG of King Kong in Photoshop, scribble on it with the paintbrush tool, write 3 paragraphs about it with meaning that only goes as far as "this is Harambe Kong lol this funny -- it's just satire don't get mad" and the only thing separating this thing from RED and Gfantis [to not use other users' monsters again] is one category at the bottom of the page that says "Parody Kaiju."

So, should we go ahead and make a template that goes on top of parody kaiju pages that says something like "This is a joke monster, do not take anything said here seriously"? This would at least mitigate the harm these monsters can have on the potential reputation of this site. YES, THERE IS A PLACE FOR JOKE MONSTERS. If FMK Wikia really does want to become a home for a serious community for people to post their monsters, we should at least draw a clear line between ones that are punchlines (regardless of if you find these parody kaiju drop-dead hilarious or not) and ones that have thought process put behind them.

I have a general idea of what this template will look like.