I won't be censoring content. My reason for doing this is about principal and practicality.

On the side of practically - I tend to scrape content in bulk. Sometimes some surprisingly dark content will be hosted on older single creator sites. Then there is the way that the world has changed from 2000 when The Sims was released to now. Some of the content that you'll see doesn't play to audiences the same way that it did in 2004 or 2009 or 2014 as it does today. Unfortunately, it isn't only boho chic, converse, peplum, and snap backs that make the content of the archive 'aged'.

On the side of principal - Putting in hard and fast rules regarding some of this stuff is basically me making a personal decision regarding what you should and shouldn't have access to. The two things that I've gone out of my way to avoid are pedophilia, bestiality, and anything that seems to be explicitly advocating violent hate. The key word there being EXPLICITLY and ADVOCATING.

In the interest of transparency, I'll explain my thought process. Especially given the way the definitions of these terms seem to be sliding around wildly within fandom spaces.

Bestiality does NOT include furry related works. Additionally, things regarding animal welfare aren't so much included. While The Sims 4 may not have included dog houses because the developers thought that dog houses were 'inhumane', you'll see nothing like that here.

Pedophilia rules apply to child sims and below. If it was on Pretty Little Liars (to stay appropriate to the time period), it's allowed on the archive. As stupid as that sounds, that's literally the only way it can explained. Since so much of the content here was created by teenagers and young adults creating things from their real lives it would seem ridiculous to ban things that really happen in many people's day-to-day lives. Teenage pregnancy, sexuality, etc. If you're mad, too bad. If it makes you feel better we're more strict than Archive of Our Own.

Regarding hate content - I will not be banning anything that includes content that refers to hateful content. No, Nazi memorabilia in custom content form doesn't not count as an explicit call for violence.