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I think Auto Erotic Troping is only an issue when the input is creative. Forgive my ignorance if I'm wrong, but I don't think testers have much creative input on the final product; mostly finding bugs and/or tuning balance. It should be fine as long as you're not troping things you had a direct hand in making.
There's no inherent difference between a tester and a regular player if they don't have a hand directly in the production.
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I agree that it only becomes a problem if the troper has had a noticeable amount of creative input on the work and the edits relate in some way to their work.
To give an example, The Infinite Loops is a massive collaborative work that I have contributed some small snippets to. I consider myself completely free to make edits that have nothing to do with my own contributions, as the fact that I wrote a completely different part of the "work" does not create any bias.
I mean, a test screen audience of an unreleased movie isn't technically a part of the film's production team either, and I feel like a game tester plays a comparatively similar role (especially if you're a Beta tester instead of an Alpha).
Gotcha, thanks for the input.
I'd like to apologize for all this.
I would imagine the more immediate concern would be troping stuff that isn't available to the public more than auto-erotic troping.
^ I agree, I just didn't bring it up because I didn't have any doubts about that. You guys don't want me leaking anything, the devs don't want me leaking anything, I don't want to leak anything...
By the way, wasn't there an Administrivia page regarding Content Leaks? I thought there was, but apparently not.
I'd like to apologize for all this.
I feel like "As a rule on this website" at Content Leak should be potholed to Creating a Work Page for an Upcoming Work for reference.
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We recently added "no leaks" to the latter page.
^^ That'd be useful, actually.
I'd like to apologize for all this.
The Power Bomberman team promoted me to tester a couple of weeks ago. Where does that leave me in regards to Auto-Erotic Troping? On the one hand, I'm not a creator, artist, writer or coder like that page says, but on the other, I do play a role in its production.
(I haven't edited any of the subpages since my promotion, because that's a potential rule break.)