I haven't spoken about this before except in private, so I'm glad to hear that someone else was bothered enough to call it out. It wasn't an isolated incident, though. Since I've been there I've seen at least one prolific user be told by longtime contributors to stop creating stubs unless they could make a full page. It was implied pretty heavily that their work was damaging the site. Obviously, they left Fanlore. That was baffling to me, because not only do Fanlore guidelines say to create stubs wherever you can, but I've created plenty of them myself and no one ever told me to stop.
Even if none of that had happened, I still don't feel like I can recommend a website where there are secret rules that only a few select people know about. I was in the Discord server myself for some time, and I don't know what these new guidelines are even supposed to be. As far as I could tell they were just being decided in private conversations, and one single answer would be relayed into the server when someone asked a specific question. That's not a functional system, and in my time there I didn't see any interest in fixing it.
I'd like to see Fanlore grow and improve too, but the atmosphere right now is erratic to say the least.
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