Purge ERP from this game!

[magitekLuna]

Reading this made me uncomfortable.

Why? First time you find out teens some times as young as 12 have sex? Not a question if good or bad just life. If you never have it do not mean no one have.the problem starts when it's a teen girl and a 20+ male.

[LeonKeyh]

Like I said you are massively overreacting. You have the most useless approach to the problem you see. If you actually wanted to protect the children (which I always have trouble believing people like you), you would advocate for parents and schools to have proper sex ed. Kids will only be able to protect themselves from harm if they know what's going on and if they have a person to talk about what makes them uncomfortable.

+1. You "protect" children by educating them and preparing them. That's it. Any program with chat will be used for cybersex. If a child is engaging in ERP or cybersex, that's on the parents, not for others on the internet to protect them, it's just completely unrealistic. The person that you responded to is the type of person that thinks that has never seen Footloose. Saying that something is prohibited to a child without explaining why or what it is will push the child towards it in very unhealthy ways. They don't realize how many catholic teens get pregnant because they have sex but don't have condoms because they're afraid their parents will find the condoms. Children are going to do things if they want to do them. You need to prepare and educate them and advise against it, but you can't stop them.

To purge ERP from this game, they must do this:

1. Stop adding lingerie to the game, there is no need for underwear and skimpy nightwear.
2. Rework 2B leggings and boots or delete them altogether.
3. Stop adding mini/micro skirts, and tight high boots.
4. Delete the Dance Pole furniture.
5. On top of all of this, Ban all Mods. Let's face the truth Mods are one of the main reasons why these people ERP.

This is obviously never going to happen because sex sells and they know that.

I mean, it's never going to go away, but there's 1 thing that the can do (and the ONLY thing they can do to mitigate ERP): Remove chat and emotes.

That's it. Where there is chat there is ERP. People will ERP in full armor, and mods are already banned, how well is that going?

[Jojoya]

To purge ERP from this game, they must do this:

1. Stop adding lingerie to the game, there is no need for underwear and skimpy nightwear.
2. Rework 2B leggings and boots or delete them altogether.
3. Stop adding mini/micro skirts, and tight high boots.
4. Delete the Dance Pole furniture.
5. On top of all of this, Ban all Mods. Let's face the truth Mods are one of the main reasons why these people ERP.

This is obviously never going to happen because sex sells and they know that.

1. What "lingerie" has been added to the game that you feel is a problem?
2. No worse than swimsuit briefs (and far better than string bikini briefs when it comes to skin coverage).
3. As much that I would like to see more knee/calf lengths skirts added instead of miniskirts, the miniskirts aren't a problem. Nor is any type of footwear.
4. Removing the Dance Pole furnishing doesn't accomplish anything when players are still able to do the same dancing without it.
5. Mods don't create ERPers.

You do realize that the first 3 of your points are basically blaming women for ERP, don't you? You're saying that if women didn't wear such items then ERP wouldn't happen. Were you going to bother addressing a man's responsibility for ERP or are they blameless in your eyes?

ERP in various forms has been part of human society for centuries. It's not going to suddenly disappear because you remove a couple of items from a game.

The best SE can do is set standards for how players are expected to behave when they're around other players.

+1. You "protect" children by educating them and preparing them. That's it. Any program with chat will be used for cybersex. If a child is engaging in ERP or cybersex, that's on the parents, not for others on the internet to protect them, it's just completely unrealistic. The person that you responded to is the type of person that thinks that has never seen Footloose. Saying that something is prohibited to a child without explaining why or what it is will push the child towards it in very unhealthy ways. They don't realize how many catholic teens get pregnant because they have sex but don't have condoms because they're afraid their parents will find the condoms. Children are going to do things if they want to do them. You need to prepare and educate them and advise against it, but you can't stop them.

Educating children about and protecting them from sexual activity might be the responsibility of parents but parents neglecting that responsibility doesn't make it right for others to expose children to sexual activity.

People need to learn to think with their brains, not their genitals. If someone has an urge that need to be addressed, please just take it to a private location.

[george357]

well 17 padges am now totaly bord time to leave.

[drtasteyummy]

[LianaThorne]

Dropping by to tell people in here to check their kids search history because odds are you're already too late on keeping them protected from sexual things.

Time to realize this isn't the 80s or 90s anymore and kids are exposed to sexual content on the regular via YouTube and other platforms.

Instead of trying to stop places from having sexual content, do your job as a parent and put up parental blocks on websites. Install a keylogger on your kids computer and check it every week or two to see what they're typing to people or in their search bar. If you're that concerned about it, take the steps needed to keep your kids away from stuff you don't want them to see.

It is not our job to babysit your kids. It is not Square's job to babysit your kids. That's YOUR job.

[Driavna]

It is not Square's job to babysit your kids.

True, SE is way to busy babysitting the whole community.

"Hey healer it's safe for you to do DPS instead of spam Cure"
"Why are you so toxic... REEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!"

[Vahlnir]

I'm sorry Arthas. I can't watch you do this.

[theCalina]

To purge ERP from this game, they must do this:

1. Stop adding lingerie to the game, there is no need for underwear and skimpy nightwear.
2. Rework 2B leggings and boots or delete them altogether.
3. Stop adding mini/micro skirts, and tight high boots.
4. Delete the Dance Pole furniture.
5. On top of all of this, Ban all Mods. Let's face the truth Mods are one of the main reasons why these people ERP.

This is obviously never going to happen because sex sells and they know that.

As all mods are already banned, your dress code and content removal pitches strike as ineffective at improving your cause to keep teens safe.

The actual threat they face are predators and listed below are ways to purge predatory behavior:
- If an adult contacts a teen in bad faith, report it to SQX in detail. If you have evidence, have at 'em... but at that person(s).
- If you witness the breaking of explicit content guidelines, report the evidence against that person(s).
- Educate teens to communicate such happenings to their guardian, as well as doing the abovementioned.

Aiming a pitchfork towards communities suffering bad public opinion does nothing to make minors safe, and everything to make your moral comfort the burden of everyone but yourself.
It does make for an active thread, however...

[AngelCheese77]

Dropping by to tell people in here to check their kids search history because odds are you're already too late on keeping them protected from sexual things.

Time to realize this isn't the 80s or 90s anymore and kids are exposed to sexual content on the regular via YouTube and other platforms.

Instead of trying to stop places from having sexual content, do your job as a parent and put up parental blocks on websites. Install a keylogger on your kids computer and check it every week or two to see what they're typing to people or in their search bar. If you're that concerned about it, take the steps needed to keep your kids away from stuff you don't want them to see.

It is not our job to babysit your kids. It is not Square's job to babysit your kids. That's YOUR job.

+1 on this. People are too naieve to think their 13 year old hasn’t been opened to what a “private part” is or been with a friend and googled a “sex site”. We all were young. Think what you did.