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251: back in my day wank meant something

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the responses to this thread are wild.

the kneejerk defensiveness in this thread to the mere suggestion that shipping and smut isn't always appropiate content to focus on in every game is unreal.

making game rules against this premise ignoring and enforcing them really needs to be more normalized around here if something this basic is a problem for anons.

good luck with this one

enforcing those rules strictly would be a disaster and doom a game and the mods.

How much engagement with the premise is required to prove they aren’t ignoring it? How will this be proven? Is the expectation of this level of engagement placed upon every player equally, or just those playing ships?

Do players need to earn the right to ship with proof of plot activity? Can shipping allowed at all, and how would this be banned? Is smut? What about inbox threads and private logs?

No one wants to deal with the logistics of rules like that.

it goes in the ac rewards store

participate in 3 exploration plots to earn a kiss

propose and run a player plot to earn one sex scene (FTB)

turn in 2 extra proofs of gen activity each month to maintain an ongoing ship.

don't even joke about this, I've met people who would unironically think it sounds like a good idea

My rule in the invite games I've modded is shipping is fine but smut threads have to be taken off comm and don't count toward AC.

They could still write all the smut they wanted but if people wanted to make AC they also needed to do some threads that built general CR or engaged with plots.

The logistics were easy. Threads could be used for AC up to the smut cut off, because policing shipping is more nebulous and I don't want to do it. So people wrote smut off-comm. They also threaded general CR and plot threads. The games I ran did not burn down and ran decent lengths of time.

You're way overcomplicating it and also assuming everyone in dwrp is in it for the same thing. Plenty of people are genuinely invested in non-smut aspects of RP like the relationship parts of shipping, plots, and gen CR. Plenty of games survive without a smut focus.

There's no need to get defensive about how it's impossible. Games not catering to you aren't implicitly judging you by doing so.

Firefox accidnetally cut a line from the top of my post: "I do think shipping is too hard to limit but games can avoid focusing on smut"

That's one area I don't agree with the poster above about. Shipping's too hard to regulate and is part of the same relationship spectrum as anything else.

They could still write all the smut they wanted but if people wanted to make AC they also needed to do some threads that built general CR

... smut threads can build/deepen cr, though? like this is honestly a weird take. if a thread is 80 comments building up to smut and then 15 comments of actual smut, why shouldn't those 15 comments also be allowed to count for ac? why should they be disqualified just because they include the actual act?

Well, they said general cr. As in cr without sex. Personally I always disqualified smut as ac in games I ran since they weren't sex games and I didn't want to have to check smut over and I felt like that was fair enough.

i like this logic

mods should only allow for the threads they personally want to read to count toward ac. it would make modding so much less heinous. personally id ban any thread involving characters regurgitating their canon tragic backstory like they're in therapy from counting for ac.

ac challenges. this month you can only submit threads that have no dialogue whatsoever for ac. next month your characters must discuss buying a pony to have the thread count for ac.

memshare events no longer count for ac wholesale lol

bingo

I absolutely think smut rp can deepen CR. I play it all the time in psls, memes, off to the side of my games, and have played it in games in the past. But I've been on a gen and plot kick for a while. If I plan to put a ton of work into plots and also want to play out and foster something more gen rp focused, the only way to really ensure people won't be using the game as window dressing for their smut rp is to ban smut rp in game, especially since it doesn't stop anyone from enjoying it off the comm, myself included.

Banning it waves a big unwelcome sign to people who are exclusively interested in smut and nothing else. It affects who self-selects in and self-selects out. Most people only interested in smut and nothing else aren't going to app into a game where smut can only be done off to the side. Just like people that aren't currently interested in smut aren't going to app into a game that has a smut AC, which is the exact inverse of a smut ban.

it's not a weird take

nobody else gives a fuck about your blorbo and his CR-deepening [adds another finger] smut

telling on yourself for how boring your smut threads clearly are

fr. I have a cr rn I'm like tearing my hair out to explain to people fully because half of the most dense and personal stuff is 100 comments deep into dubcon bodyswap sex having conversations that absolutely hinge on that context

Have funner smut

my last smut thread topped 200 comments and maybe only 20% of those were actual smut. the rest was all buildup and then pillow talk afterwards with the characters feeling relaxed enough to let their walls down around each other for a while.

definitely a skill issue if you're not getting good cr out of your smut threads.

stop writing with neckbeards

It's not even about bad or good or CR-deepening smut. Honestly, this seems more like it's about people getting upset some people might want to focus on non-smut because it'd exclude them as a player.

please make your dream asexy game so we can all point and laugh at it

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