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I think this is the best solution. It's good that you're subconsciously analysing your own work. You can't expect to produce anything of quality if you have no idea what quality even means; you can't solve problems in your writing if you don't first acknowledge them. It sounds like you need to...

Chapters on huge collaborative works tend to get more attention more quickly and easily compared with writing your own story from scratch. I would still recommend the latter in the long term, though.

In a general legal sense, you shouldn't use copyrighted art unless it is under a licence that permits you to do so. However, CHYOA doesn't check the copyright status of every single image uploaded by users, and it's not something usually enforced by moderators.

A virtual currency of any kind might create additional legal snarls. Remember that it should also be segregated from CHYOA, so benefits can only apply to Fiction Community. The variety of perks that can be offered on a forum/social platform is very small, and I doubt there are many that would be...

If we are compliant with the policies of payment providers, then there is no reason to not use standard fiat currency. Of the points you make, 1 and 2 are just users spending more than they mean to, which I would consider a bad thing, and 4 seems to be outside the scope of Fiction Community. As...

You need a CHYOA account to leave likes, so the most of your readers probably aren't actually able to like your chapters.

I would avoid imagery in your chapters altogether. Your writing should speak for itself. There is a certain story style associated with frequent use of pictures, but in that case, the types and ways you use visuals is strongly dependent on how you want to communicate the story.

I think many CHYOAs have an asshole protagonist, whether or not the author realises it. It's probably more common than a particularly sympathetic main character.

I think this isn't an unusual experience for both men and women after finishing high school. I can't say I've ever felt this myself, but I have decided I liked someone only after having sex with them.

How much are you paying?

The Turing test wouldn't be applicable. If an entity passes the Turing test, then it is behaviorally indistinguishable from a human, so it must be able to communicate like one, and is in practice as intelligent as one. Therefore, anything that passes the Turing test passes those parts of the...

I do think there is an interesting point to be made about categories that are excluded from the Harkness test - in this case, robots. For a character (or perhaps "thing" is a better term) to count as a robot, I imagine they should be depicted as such, not merely stated. For example, suppose you...

Make sure you're actually on the edit story page, and not just editing the Introduction chapter. Find the story on the My Stories and click the three dots in the corner, or visit the story's map and change the "map" at the end of the URL to "edit".

Stories already have a gender perspective associated with them. On the right panel in the search interface, there's an option for "POV Gender".

No. Categories aren't enforced at all. You are free to select any category for any story, no matter what. If incestuous content needs to be marked in the future for filtering/moderation purposes, I imagine it would be a separate system from categories. Otherwise, the incest category would...

Theoretically, yes, but in practice, if CHYOA suddenly became flooded with underage content, it would be CHYOA itself facing consequences. The users publishing the content would, in the worst case, be banned from the site.

Yes, this is mostly the case. The impacts of increasing censorship are widespread. For CHYOA, it's likely that an individual decided to report the website to Patreon, perhaps in a way that provided enough probable cause for Patreon to actually spend the time to investigate. There's also the...

Well, forum.chyoa.com is still part of chyoa.com regardless of what it's used for.