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I speak with very little knowledge of Backrooms itself. Almost everything I know about it comes from this thread.
It kinda feels like bad form to index every single group that takes a piece of originally anonymously-posted media. Since the rightsholder is unclear, and no particular branch stands far above the rest, it's hard to tell which of them should be considered the "original character" and which permutations should be considered "fan characters".
However, we may have already ditched that level of filtering with other internet horror series we have on the site; we seem to just use notability for series based on anonymous authorship, as if they were public domain characters. But then again, maybe those series, while sometimes taking common characters like "Jeff the Killer", are overall fairly distinct from each other so this becomes less of an issue.
While I'd like to stick to my earlier suggestion of "Wait a few months until one of these sites/series shows itself to be dominant, only index that, and ignore the rest." I don't know if that's consistent with how we've handled similar internet horror situations before.
I think it should also go without saying, that whichever ones we do index should have stringent quality control standards. For collaborative works like wikis, knowledgeable members should explain (and cite) quality control processes the site has. For works like a YouTube series, the fact that it's a person's own channel should be quality control enough.
It kinda feels like bad form to index every single group that takes a piece of originally anonymously-posted media. Since the rightsholder is unclear, and no particular branch stands far above the rest, it's hard to tell which of them should be considered the "original character" and which permutations should be considered "fan characters".
However, we may have already ditched that level of filtering with other internet horror series we have on the site; we seem to just use notability for series based on anonymous authorship, as if they were public domain characters. But then again, maybe those series, while sometimes taking common characters like "Jeff the Killer", are overall fairly distinct from each other so this becomes less of an issue.
While I'd like to stick to my earlier suggestion of "Wait a few months until one of these sites/series shows itself to be dominant, only index that, and ignore the rest." I don't know if that's consistent with how we've handled similar internet horror situations before.
I think it should also go without saying, that whichever ones we do index should have stringent quality control standards. For collaborative works like wikis, knowledgeable members should explain (and cite) quality control processes the site has. For works like a YouTube series, the fact that it's a person's own channel should be quality control enough.
