Can we go back to banning people for ERP crap?

[SentioftheHoukai]

I mean......

I found a bestiality/incest Fellowship and "Stepbro" RP AND downright pedophilian RP in Fellowships just yesterday.

Openly advertised and everything. Why exactly isn't this getting taken care of?

[Zanarkand-Ronso]

I mean......

I found a bestiality/incest Fellowship and "Stepbro" RP AND downright pedophilian RP in Fellowships just yesterday.

Openly advertised and everything. Why exactly isn't this getting taken care of?

Did you report it?
Further advertising it here in the forums might have the opposite effect

[Bukachu]

If you can't deal with other don't play MMO.
If you can't deal with RP don't play RPG.

There are as many ways to play a role-playing game as there are players, been the only truth since D&D came out.

think it lowkey threw over your head ngl

[Mat13295]

Ban it so we can actually get some variety in venues again instead of generic /beesknees in 2B leggings nightclub number #2873

[rainichan]

I don't care what people do in private. But I am genuinely curious about this logic.

* Kids can and do lie about their age
* Lots of roleplayers don't want to play with kids in those settings
* Putting 18+ on the door vets them to makes sure they are not kids?

tbh a lot of teenagers are pretty obvious when they roleplay as opposed to adults. Not saying they're bad, everyone starts somewhere, but they do make it easy to figure out (for the most part) in how they write. Like yeah, they can lie about their age and all, but if they get found out, the roleplayers, regardless if it's been sfw/nsfw, will flat out refuse to continue their talking/roleplaying with that person. It's all about trust no matter what kind it is. Some don't mind doing general/sfw stuff, but in some venues where there's going to be anything that would be language or more no one wants someone underage there. They can only do so much, but they do try to watch people as best they can and try to make people comfortable.

[Shibi]

tbh a lot of teenagers are pretty obvious when they roleplay as opposed to adults.

Yes I agree. I started roleplaying in 2006 in the Dune Universe and have done paragraph-style roleplay over many themes pretty much every day since then. Kids and teens are obvious. The longer you listen to them the more obvious they become.

Some don't mind doing general/sfw stuff, but in some venues where there's going to be anything that would be language or more no one wants someone underage there. They can only do so much, but they do try to watch people as best they can and try to make people comfortable.

That just reinforces my decade-held beliefs that 18+ signs are nothing more than TOS compliant codewords.

Let's drop the pretense and call a spade a spade. 18+ on the door does nothing at all to vet younger players or stop them lying, and it offers no protection at all legally. It's merely a hint to other adults that the bar-tender has (or tolerates) "something 'a little extra' hidden under the bar" for people in the know.

[Bukachu]

Yes I agree. I started roleplaying in 2006 in the Dune Universe and have done paragraph-style roleplay over many themes pretty much every day since then. Kids and teens are obvious. The longer you listen to them the more obvious they become.



That just reinforces my decade-held beliefs that 18+ signs are nothing more than TOS compliant codewords.

Let's drop the pretense and call a spade a spade. 18+ on the door does nothing at all to vet younger players or stop them lying, and it offers no protection at all legally. It's merely a hint to other adults that the bar-tender has (or tolerates) "something 'a little extra' hidden under the bar" for people in the know.

18+ in this case does as much, as 18+ does in case of a lot of other things on internet. like adults website, or video games that are rated 18+, yet I never had issues accessing them when I was below 18, and same applies to a lot of other people too.

at the end of the day, as an adult, you ask someone how old they are, and if they lie about it, and you have proof they lied about it, responsibility doesn't lay on you.

where I live, you're legally not responsible for it, as long as you can prove you were lied to and manipulated into believing someone was 18+.

its really not that deep.

with that in mind, I do think public ERP, or even public RP, or most things public, may or may not be enjoyable for other people, therefor being reasonable about it goes a long way.