Strato is right.
Removing young characters is missing the point. We have gone untouched for ages with children in the RP, and there is no need to panic.
Cool heads.
Take a walk outside if you have to.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I'm gonna have to agree that banning characters under 16 is a stupid idea.
Hugging a Vanillite will give you frostbite.I feel that this is simply a way to encourage us to help mods nuke the creeps who show up. A bit of danger to motivate us.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?Ah, daltar.
The coolest of cool heads.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?I think that Fast Eddie's wording leaves for some openness of interpretation.
He specifically said, "If there is an RPG thread that can be interpreted as pedo-friendly in any way". I would construe that as "if someone does something out of bound and isn't called out on it", rather than construing it as "one wrong move and you get the chair".
Also, thank you daltar.
Fixed Profile pageEddie probably means stuff that "can be interpreted". We've established that Eddie doesn't like this place. And that this site has had trouble in the past. Eddie is running out of reasons to keep this place around...and to be honest there is some content here that isn't pedo, but "can be interpreted".
PM box is Closed, Indefinitely Friend Code: 3368-4181-6850Please lets keep cool and unconfrontational, rpers.
What if there’s no better word than just not saying anything?This is the situation.
Today Eddie got word about an RP whose premise was a lecherous 10 year old female character around a bunch of other female characters. This RP was at the moment closed after being reported, but not nuked. Seeing this breach of the forum rules and having strong feelings about the serious matter that it is, Eddie banned the involved party and posted the notice you all saw to try and prevent this from happening again.
The RP Forums are not going away, as that RP was not a representation of our RP community. The site policy and standards remain and there is no need for panic. Just, from now we should be more active in reporting such activity to be immediately dealt with.
Still, the policy remains the same and you ought not overreact. This came out of the extreme case of a 10 year old in lecherous situations.
Sexual content is, as always, forbidden within the RP area and the site in general though it can be alluded or mentioned with adult characters. Teenage romance remains alright. Innocent love of hand holding and the like is alright for children. Use your own judgement as I think most here can identify outright pedophilic content which is the one causing the current situation. If you are unsure about a given situation, I'm always available to try and give judgement.
Knowing the RP Forums as I do, I'm certain that most, if not practically all of you, need not worry about what happened today. Your Role Playing Games will continue as they have without a change for they were never a problem.
Now, anybody has questions?
edited 7th Dec '13 4:56:29 PM by daltar
@Tropay Xion: Actually, we did have a full roleplay nuked for this behavior. "Kagami Hiiragi Snuggling After Sex"
So it's not unfounded at all.
I think this is really easy to avoid, of course. Better rules, better reports, maybe a second RP Mod to make the process faster.
@Daltar: Fine with me. Thanks for the update.
edited 7th Dec '13 4:37:01 PM by Irene
Shadow?

I really don't think making a new site is a plausible idea. If you want something reliable, I'd suggest using an existing site that already has hundreds of people on it, and not using one that some troper has. You're not going to find stability, or be able to sustain, some free/cheap forum you make yourself. Better to use a site that doesn't care if fifty more people are posting on it.
That said, I like this site, so ideally I'd like to see this subforum stick around.
edited 7th Dec '13 4:00:18 PM by nman