What is ERP?

[van_arn]

You could say this about literally any content. There's nothing stopping a creep trying to get frisky with someone they met in a trial mount farm group. Creepy NSFW behaviour doesn't always only begin with rp.

The point of forbidding advertisements in PF that are clearly for erp is so that the game isn't openly showing ease of access for 18+ sexual content in a game that welcomes minors to play.

If the game was 18+ I wouldn't care as much. Sure minors would still be playing but parents who buy their children these games are the ones putting them at risk for not taking the age rating seriously. In the case of this game, that is rated for teens under 18, by allowing sexual content to be openly advertised we are literally hoping for minors to have enough sense to know how to deal with this situation. I hope I don't need to explain to anyone why this isn't good (not directed at you, just to anyone in general).

It can, but the issue at hand is how a small group of creeps (public advertising explicit rp, groomers) is finding safe harbor in a larger group (the general RP community.) The bad apple analogy isn't far off; they're the bad apples spreading their rot and ruining the barrel. Since they're not getting removed from the barrel, it no longer really matters which individual apple is rotten; the whole barrel might need to be tossed out.

[Penthea]

It can, but the issue at hand is how a small group of creeps (public advertising explicit rp) is finding safe harbor in a larger group. The bad apple analogy isn't far off; they're the bad apples spreading their rot to the rest of the RP community. Since they're not getting removed from the barrel, it no longer really matters which individual apple is rotten; the whole barrel might need to be tossed out.

The thing is this will not work unless SE explicitly ban all forms of open erp advertisement. If these people are only blocked from using PF they'll just use something else feeling safe knowing they can't get banned for it. Sure other forms of advertisement aren't as far reaching as PF, but go to Limsa in peak hours on the weekend...so many potential customers!

If SE banned open advertisement of erp in any public channel, then we could still have other rpers use PF without having to endure the prostitute listings, as long as players report them of course. If people find out that they could get in real trouble if they're caught that will certainly be enough of a deterrent for many players.

There is no need to sweep all rpers and toss them in the same box when it's possible to target the actual problem.

And lets say SE do ban all rp advertisements from PF, well we would still have to hope they would get reported which is the exact same as hoping erp advertisements would get reported...so I see little point in banning all rp listings if the method of dealing with only erp would be the same. No need to punish everyone.

[van_arn]

The thing is this will not work unless SE explicitly ban all forms of open erp advertisement. If these people are only blocked from using PF they'll just use something else feeling safe knowing they can't get banned for it. Sure other forms of advertisement aren't as far reaching as PF, but go to Limsa in peak hours on the weekend...so many potential customers!

If SE banned open advertisement of erp in any public channel, then we could still have other rpers use PF without having to endure the prostitute listings, as long as players report them of course. If people find out that they could get in real trouble if they're caught that will certainly be enough of a deterrent for many players.

There is no need to sweep all rpers and toss them in the same box when it's possible to target the actual problem.

And lets say SE do ban all rp advertisements from PF, well we would still have to hope they would get reported which is the exact same as hoping erp advertisements would get reported...so I see little point in banning all rp listings if the method of dealing with only erp would be the same. No need to punish everyone.

I don't disagree, ultimately the bad apples need to be removed before they ruin the barrel. The issue is timing, and Square seems to be content to just sit on this for now.

That's only going to make it necessary to remove more "bad apples" as time goes on. Perhaps they're just sitting on it now because they've waited too long.

[Penthea]

I don't disagree, ultimately the bad apples need to be removed before they ruin the barrel. The issue is timing, and Square seems to be content to just sit on this for now.

That's only going to make things worse.

Yea I'm not a fan of that. They could at least put a rp tab in PF. That can't be complicated to implement.