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True, but '# of users that have read' could probably work.
I have zero issues with obscenity and the Guild is unrestricted by our personal limits as staff. I'm not even sure I have any. My goal for the Guild is for people to do as they please and to set boundaries that are optimal for the most amount of people.
I only care about a few things:
1. The Guild won't violate Adsense guidelines. I will rigorously re-examine those guidelines when the mature/adult system is actually the next feature in my queue (I still haven't even finished pondering what that system will be), but as @HeySeuss mentioned, and according to the guidelines last time I examined them, Adsense's restrictions only apply to each page the ads are on.
2. The Guild won't violate American federal law. This is another thing I will re-examine, but last I checked, there is no precedent for obscenity enforcement winning against written erotica. And for good reason. Imagine there was a fictional story that involves acts that would be illegal in real life, and imagine that it was illegal to write about such acts. But wait, the story ends with: "Note: All characters in this story are an alien race thousands of years old that only look like humans.". I'm not going to sit here and guess in advance what kind of content an adult system will fill up with. I just have to see how it goes and react accordingly.
3. Users must set their birth date and opt-in to see adult content. "Sensitive" content should be limited on the public Guild, and it should be tucked away behind an opt-in process.
4. People should be given the tools to manage multiple accounts. The Guild doesn't care about multiple accounts, as anything bad you can do with multiple accounts is already against the rules. People are going to make multiple accounts no matter what, and it's trivial to circumvent a system that prohibits them (for this reason I also don't bother with IP bans). Instead, I embrace them and would like to allow people to link their multiple accounts together so that they can quickly switch between them. For example, imagine a drop-down button next to your username in the top navbar that lets you switch between them.
Since the Guild's birth, its PM system has been filled with smut. People are going to do as they please. I'd rather at least offer the tools for these people to find each other in a way that doesn't impact the current system.
I haven't pondered the entire solution yet since I'm working on some other features. Maybe all it will be is an opt-in system that lets you tag and see checks with a set of adult tags and the content still takes place over PM. Not sure yet. Maybe that's the start and we'll go on from there.
This is still very much in development so the press for details is a little premature, don't you think?
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Well, even American TV allows for shows and fiction about sexual victimization of the underaged in a non-explicit manner, such as Law and Order: Special Victims' Unit, whereas an explicit depiction is pretty much verboten. If it's an explicit depiction involving the underaged, it's a ban. Referring to such events indirectly as part of a plot is generally okay (not saying 'always' because someone will try to use that loophole, and I really want to discourage that shit from the outset) but a detailing of the abuse will not fly and is ban territory.
I'm not sure why people want to split hairs on this. We're going to err on the side of caution about this stuff, so I wouldn't suggest trying to find a gray area.
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This, what exactly are you all after here?
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There's no particularly good way to verify ages and that's a problem across the board in any online forum community, and that's just a reality of life here, so yeah, pretty much gotta just hope and pray. But we've made it clear that it's against the rules and a bad idea anyway -- if you're underage and deceive a partner and then engage in that stuff and a parent sees it, you could be landing the partner into a shit-heap of trouble. Even if they aren't convicted, because the laws are a gray area, their lives will be seriously disrupted, perhaps permanently. That was, incidentally, a prior conversation over in RP discussion.
Hopefully, this sort of thing won't be an issue and we can respect each other's wishes and try to be aware that what we do can harm others. That exhortation won't stop a predator, but we're talking more about someone that's misrepresenting themselves in an RP interest check or online in general more than a predator.
So I suppose we'll have to appeal to people to be honest, and we're going to still clamp down on any pedo shit that goes on because that's just a no-brainer.
Since this site is hosted in the US, US rules would apply.
The only things I'd consider embedding are some select flash games. It's a silly feature, but as a competitive person, I'd be interested in an arcade built by embedding some flash games that have a score API that I can integrate into the Guild.
This weekend I will work on a basic trophy system that I'll be using to award the contest winner since that contest just closed.
Not a hard feature, so I'd also like to get some other smaller features done like a status system, finally.
Maybe I'll have time to implement the opt-in "adult/mature" RP system, too.
@LegendBegins Integrating an applet into html is trivial. But why would that be useful, or even necessary?
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Could I embed Java Applets? Sure.
They wouldn't run on [most] mobile devices nor many desktop browsers and I haven't seen one since 2006, but I could.
Why?
