RP Party finders being reported AGAIN without so much as a reason.

[LittleImp]

It's hard to take RPers seriously when it comes to this because of this genuinely hilarious bad-faith fantasy they engage in and pretend [18+] totally doesn't imply ERP 95% of the time. Anyone who spends a lot of time amongst Roleplayers knows this is complete and utter disingenuous BS. I'm four years deep on Balmung and have interacted with hundreds of roleplayers socially in that time. I've had more or less a front-row seat to the metamorphosis the RP community has gone through; ERP was always a thing, but the game began to develop an outside reputation for it and people migrated exponentially from other platforms to get in on it. I think SE is catching on and wants to ensure the games public image isn't taken in that direction.

There's absolutely a time and place for degeneracy. There are a lot of wonderful platforms where it's acceptable and encouraged to link up with other consenting adults with similar interests and let your desires run wild. FFXIV just isn't that place, and I'm glad the GMs are stepping up and policing it.

[fuumin]

It's hard to take RPers seriously when it comes to this because of this genuinely hilarious bad-faith fantasy they engage in and pretend [18+] totally doesn't imply ERP 95% of the time. Anyone who spends a lot of time amongst Roleplayers knows this is complete and utter disingenuous BS. I'm four years deep on Balmung and have interacted with hundreds of roleplayers socially in that time. I've had more or less a front-row seat to the metamorphosis the RP community has gone through; ERP was always a thing, but the game began to develop an outside reputation for it and people migrated exponentially from other platforms to get in on it. I think SE is catching on and wants to ensure the games public image isn't taken in that direction.

There's absolutely a time and place for degeneracy. There are a lot of wonderful platforms where it's acceptable and encouraged to link up with other consenting adults with similar interests and let your desires run wild. FFXIV just isn't that place, and I'm glad the GMs are stepping up and policing it.

You can act like the purity police all you want, but I literally just stand there roleplaying mixing drinks all night twice a week, which is not exactly what I would consider degeneracy. An age tag shouldn't matter, and neither should a random, non-explicit word? If it's a word that can literally be found in-game, why can't a player say it? That's ridiculous.

[LittleImp]

You can act like the purity police all you want, but I literally just stand there roleplaying mixing drinks all night twice a week, which is not exactly what I would consider degeneracy. An age tag shouldn't matter, and neither should a random, non-explicit word? If it's a word that can literally be found in-game, why can't a player say it? That's ridiculous.

Because Square Enix holds players to a separate standard than that of the content of the game. The games content is vetted by an external authority, considered acceptable and given a rating. It's static. Random interactions between players aren't, which is exactly where the ToS and moderation comes in. "Online interactions not rated" exists solely to protect the external rating authority, and has little to do at with the way the operating company of the game chooses to moderate player content.

Think of it this way;

Kids read books in school all the time that contain language they'll be disciplined for using. The content of the books are static, and the parents and teachers have agreed its acceptable for them to be exposed to it in that context.

But again, it's hard to take this issue seriously when the RPers that try to come and argue on these boards about this often have things like.. publicly accessible carrds, flists and venue sites that lay out in explicit terms exactly what their interests are. The very OP of this thread is no exception.

[LittleImp]

You can act like the purity police all you want, but I literally just stand there roleplaying mixing drinks all night twice a week, which is not exactly what I would consider degeneracy. An age tag shouldn't matter, and neither should a random, non-explicit word? If it's a word that can literally be found in-game, why can't a player say it? That's ridiculous.

I'd like to circle back and underscore how hilarious this post is in light of the venues carrd being uncovered, and your character being explicitly listed in the staff section of it with a flag indicating you're available for paid ERP as a domme.

[Nayout]

I'd like to circle back and underscore how hilarious this post is in light of the venues carrd being uncovered, and your character being explicitly listed in the staff section of it with a flag indicating you're available for paid ERP as a domme.

[ZedxKayn]

Not my fault you're not educated enough to know about nonsexual kink, but go off king.

What part of "ERP as a domme" is nonsexual?

[ZedxKayn]

If you take a look in the corner of my post, my name is not Google. Kink is obviously adult in theme but by NO means inherently sexual. If you're creeping on my carrd, you'd also see that it explicitly states that I'm asexual. So, uh...

And google tells me that the "erotic" part of ERP means "of, devoted to, or tending to arouse sexual love or desire", so once more what part of "ERP (as a domme or anything else really)" is nonsexual?

Also I don't care about you, your carrd or your sexuality, but sexuality denotes attraction more than activity and it's not uncommon for aces to do sexual stuff by themselves or with other people regardless of their attraction.

[Saefinn]

Not my fault you're not educated enough to know about nonsexual kink, but go off king.

Maybe some specific clarification is in order, if it's not ERPing as a dom, then what is actually said/described and what kind of thing is going on? I can get people not wanting to share the Carrd details (I mean, I know the trolls this forum attracts). But LittleImp is claiming there's ERPing as a dom, but without seeing specifically what is written and of course all the types of RP that goes on at the venue, it's hard to judge who's accurate. You might be able to answer my questions in my previous post too if you're tied to the aforementioned venue.