I tried to protect my dirty jokes and accidentally built a court for my website

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A site full of dark humor needed an editorial review system when advertising rules entered the picture.

At first, anything interesting became an article: unsettling stories, taboo jokes, strange social customs and the arguments they provoke.

Then came the idea of sorting posts into four groups: keep, fix, move or remove. Copyright, misleading headlines, harassment and ad placement all needed attention. This was a proposed workflow, not proof that every article had been reviewed.

Curiosity about a subject does not mean endorsing it. A move to another domain also does not automatically solve an advertising-policy problem.

The website now needed a court to judge its own jokes. Naturally, the story of building that court became another article. The museum curator looked at the exhibits and began questioning the curator.

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