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> watching a few of the great purges of content and articles.

The only purge we've ever had was either authors deleting their own articles, or the Mass Edit from 2009, **nine years ago** (and was done purely for quality control). Since you started lurking in 2016, what purges exactly have you been watching?

> when articles shift from the horror and more serious tone to articles like Kondraki wrote towards his end via Gears and become something almost entirely different the site begins to lose the support of many writers, lurkers, and explorers who have been here as long if not longer than I have been.

You're talking about what happened in 2010, **eight years ago**. Our site blew up in popularity first in 2011 (TV Tropes) and then much bigger in 2012 (Containment Breach), and growth is still massive.

In other words, almost all of the site's major growth took place //after// the "article shift" that you're saying will cause the site to lose support.