@evazion: This is at least the tenth thread we've had...

evazion
2017-01-04T22:58:55-05:00

This is at least the tenth thread we've had about this over the past 10 years. We didn't resolve it the last 10 times and we won't this time either. Quoting myself from topic #10710 (which Fred1515 already linked):

evazion said:

That's the problem. This topic has been discussed repeatedly and at great length since the early days and still nothing has been officially decided. Just look at all these ancient threads:

topic #9402

topic #6193

topic #5744

topic #5465

topic #3215

topic #2590

topic #1539

topic #111

Now we're rehashing this topic yet again and the same thing is going to happen that always happens: we're going to talk about it, the thread will die with nothing decided, then random contributors and janitors are going to keep operating by their own personal rules.

As a result we've reached the point where people think that not only is any random doujin allowable, but that hard translations and even Chinese->Japanese->English thirdhand translations are okay. This is madness.

No one is willing to commit to any definitive statement, so we continue with the status quo that doujinshi are "discouraged". Which is to say, contributors keep uploading them and approvers keep approving them, so it's not discouraged at all.