Sounds like the admin voted no.

Okay, so I'm gonna be blunt. We don't have to write out every single thing 100%. Our rules are not an all-encompassing list of every bad or less-than-awesome thing a person could do on the internet. Expecting them to be is entirely ridiculous - we have better things to do than enumerate every horrible thing, so we have to do trust that our users have some awareness of what is and is not acceptable.

You are correct that democracy is not the be-all and end-all. We use democratic principles when it makes sense - for example, asking about how people want to see certain pages categorized or formatted. However, there are topics that aren't up for discussion. For example, if literally 95% of people voted to allow racist content we still wouldn't allow it because we have some basic principles. You are correct that we can 'just do stuff' for the most part so long as we uphold Fandom ToS and Community Guidelines. That's how things work the world over, barring the 'Fandom ToS' bits. That's not to say we don't try to be fair, but we're human and there's not some perfect cosmic ideal or law we follow.

So, why did we do that here? Because it's not an appropriate question for this board. You were asking if it's acceptable for a character who is in all ways but physical an adult to have relations with another character who is a child, and you did it as a poll where two options (yes and no) were presented equally. That legitimizes the stance that this is in some way acceptable, which in a soft way normalizes some really awful behavior. If you'd made a post (not a poll) like "I wish they'd stop having this kind of content in shows" that's an entirely different kind of post with a very different tone.

To give another example, let's say someone made a poll that said "Is it okay for a superhero to only fight villains of a certain race?' with just the answers yes and no. Presenting both of those options neutrally makes it seem like one of these things is okay. I can show that this is true because 42% of people said yes to your poll and I'm sure most of them are not pedos. That's how people work - if you present two options without elaborating they will assume they are roughly equivalent unless they have background knowledge or have thought or learned about this issue previously.

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I'm going to give you the benefit of the doubt and assume you are not a pedophile. You're probably just someone who didn't know better and framed this in a weird way, which is why we deleted your post and talked to you about this. It's also why I'm spending my time here explaining this to you. That's very generous in my opinion, I think most places they would have seen it as just you talking about some pedo-bait topic and have banned you outright without giving it any further thought, and I hope you realize the genuine good will and effort being put in here if you respond to this.

In summary - consider how you frame things. You didn't hurt someone's fee-fees and get a post deleted because you made a staff member upset, you had a post deleted because it looked like you were trying to legitimize some pretty gross stuff. The effort put in to try to explain the issue to you on your wall and here is way above and beyond, and I don't love seeing users throwing a fit about how this is some anti-democracy tyranny zone when we're doing way more than we need to.

Well, I don't think it is a bannable offense in most places as he did not nearly give so much context as to suggest what you were saying. The comment section did not have anyone delve into such areas either. It is a common subject in media and has been more or less approved by the FCC and there is no reason why someone could not make a public forum talking about it. If you said he could make a post criticizing it then people still could've responded objecting his view so if you wouldn't ban that the poll is no more in the wrong territory as it allows a simple format for people to express their opinions without having to be make questionable content about it. The question was is something which has been deemed acceptable enough to televise truly acceptable. There was no support made for any side in the poll as like usual it is just a poll gauging public opinion not influencing it. There was no mention of anything gross it sounds like you too wanted to vote no on the poll but hey it's just a click. All you accomplished was by deleting the poll was preventing people from knowing whether or not such a thing being displayed in media is found acceptable to others. You may find it exceedingly terrible but as you said I don't think those 44% of people were pedos. The frame was entirely neutral so you are making an assumption. Nobody is advocating racism but if it was asked is killing slimes only to level up fair to slimes that is not supporting racism. The point is that admins take their viewpoints and use their authority to express it in more substantial ways than users not by some guidelines or policy but oh I don't like that let me get rid of it. The point was get over yourself and acknowledge it is an online forum and nobody was interested in your sole opinion but the general community. I'll assume you're not a narcissist who needs to get your way and give you the benefit of the doubt. You're probably just someone who has too much time on the internet. In summary relax and just try to enjoy what you can and don't try to be an imposer.

@Jayroo If polls didn't sway public opinion they wouldn't be used so frequently in the news. That influence is a two-way street, and it's possible to write a poll to skew the results and/or perception of viewers. This is some basic media awareness.

I am not a person with 'too much time online'. I am a full time systems administrator, and a look at my activity on the wiki (which anyone can do) will show that I'm not typically very active. I took the time because I am hoping to get the point across that we are not out here trying to quash democracy or whatever but to moderate a forum online, and because this is a nuanced issue that is worthy of attention so long as the discussion is genuine. I take criticism of how staff run things seriously, and when I have the time do try to keep things as level as I can.

I'm sure we can both agree that it wouldn't be acceptable to actually advocate pedophilia or pedo-leaning material on such a forum, and intentional or not it is within our best interests to remove content that could do that. When 44% of responses were in favor of that, I think that's actually pretty warranted.

As you said, remember it's an internet forum. We're not the gestapo, we're not standing in the way of important advancements in public discourse or some shit. We're trying to prevent normalizing pedo-leaning attitudes on a forum frequented by minors.

I don't like pedophilia, I voted no instantly after I made the post, I was pointing out how gross it is that people find what are basically adults dating children fine, with it being a common thing in anime, manga/manhua/manhwa, and novels, you basically cannot escape it if you want to watch/read a story about a reincarnated individual, try to find literally any reincarnation stories that don't have it while having the reincarnator start off as a baby, I'll admit there are some that acknowledge it and decide to wait until both characters are legal, but it's rare.

I decided to post it here since IDK anywhere that I could post it that would get a decent amount of answers/votes.

@Nicholas8293 I agree with that perspective. My issue was with the framing of it and not your take on the topic, which is what we are trying to tell you. Presenting adults dating children as a yes/no question makes them seem like similarly acceptable answers.

I don't think this was your intention, as was hopefully clear in the comments to you that you linked. But when you make it a poll you're asking 'yes or no'. There's a big difference between a post saying 'I think stabbing people is wrong' and 'Is stabbing people okay? Vote now!'. One of these makes stabbing people a valid option.

I wanted a clear answer, if I wanted maybes or probablys I wouldn't have made the post since almost everyone would have voted those, I don't really like the posts that have the poster's opinion right in the title, I wanted people's honest, unbiased, none influenced votes/answers.

I think there was a misinterpretation of Nicholas's intent when he made this post. I understood what he meant because I read novels and fanfics of the reincarnation genre too where the Mc dies an adult and is reincarnated and grows up to have a relationship with individuals who are physically their age. This is morally wrong and should be abhorred, but is rarely paid attention to. He didn't intend to make it look like relationships with minors are okay in any manner. He wanted to say that it is not right. Now idk why people would say yes to this. Maybe they saw reincarnation as a complete restart of life and didn't see past life memories as something that make me adult ,at least mentally.. But i guess you are not wrong in saying that framing the question better would avoid misunderstandings

You also have to take into account my comments on it. i even edited a meme to fit the situation.