The future of CHYOA (or at least the funding)

Discussion in 'CHYOA General' started by Friedman, Dec 1, 2022.

  1. TheLowKing

    TheLowKing Really Really Experienced

    Hey, as long as the lawyers are happy, right?
     
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  2. IdealSimp

    IdealSimp Guest

    Wait, are we not supposed to use certain words? I’ve been writing without a care in the world. What happens if you use one of the banned words?
     
  3. TheLowKing

    TheLowKing Really Really Experienced

    The word is not shown to people who aren't logged in, or who have new accounts.
     
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  4. IdealSimp

    IdealSimp Guest

    Wow that sucks hard. So there’s not even a black bar showing new readers the story’s been censored? It just looks like you’ve made a typo? Aw man that’s rough
     
  5. curiouspotato

    curiouspotato Virgin

    Would the censored words become visible once my account becomes old enough? ( one month is what I gathered from reading different posts and forums). Also, would some of the hidden stories and tags reappear after a month? I'm loving the site since a long time but only created the account a short while ago and it's quite frustrating to have to guess so many missing words.
     
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  6. TheLowKing

    TheLowKing Really Really Experienced

    Yes. With an old enough account the site functions just as it did before.
     
  7. Friedman

    Friedman Administrator

    Can you tell me which words cause such massive problems?
     
  8. Friedman

    Friedman Administrator

    Thanks for your feedback! We now allow the words in the text.

    The use of the words has no effect on the visibility of the chapters or story.
     
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  9. zankoo

    zankoo Really Experienced CHYOA Backer

    Thanks for the reply! Does this apply to chapter titles and tags as well, or just to chapter text? That is -- can I use a word like "drunk" in a chapter title without consequence?
     
  10. skeropo

    skeropo Virgin

    can you explain exactly what legal reasons you're talking about?
     
  11. Friedman

    Friedman Administrator

    Yes, this also applies to the titles and tags. You can use the words, they just won't be visible to visitors. As soon as you log in, they become visible.
     
  12. jdow6141

    jdow6141 Virgin

    I'm late to this discussion but wanted to mention that darkwanderer net is a similarly niche erotica site to this one that hosts a bunch of stories featuring those critical terms/words. Maybe ask them how they do it?
     
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  13. Loeman

    Loeman Really Really Experienced

    Good golly. Late here and only semi-back from retirement, but I'm genuinely saddened by the issues this fine site and the people behind it are facing.

    That list of banned words is genuinely crippling, and people never have and never will want to create an account in a porn site that they are not otherwise very invested in.

    Best wishes, knowing you folks and we folks deserve better.

    You're better than us perverts deserve, Friedman and admin.

    Peace and good will.
     
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  14. Klask

    Klask Virgin

    I just created an account, after coming over to the forum to see if I could figure out why so many stories seemed to be occassionally missing words. I'm not sure what all the words were, but from context were presumably all pretty innocuous. I still see missing words with the account, which I guess is because I'm new.

    Just came across, for example, a reference to characters going "to a pub for some pool and a bit of ." Looking at the list of violating terms from earlier in the thread I'm guessing "drink" or "liquor"?

    Edited to add - apparently I'd been logged out due to inactivity - the mystery word was "alcohol"
     
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  15. Oh so that's what happened. I was wondering why one of those words wasn't showing in a chapter title in my notifications. It sucks that you had to go this route, now visitors will probably think we're all worse writers than reality.
     
  16. Friedman

    Friedman Administrator

    The Mind Control category is now available to everyone, and related words have been removed from the word filter.
     
  17. Hunter-Rigger

    Hunter-Rigger Virgin

    Saddened that this site had to resort to what it did. Feels like the Internet is just getting more and more sanitized for no good reason. 90% of the stories I used to look for don't seem to ever show up anymore.
     
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  18. Catthing

    Catthing Virgin

    Some of these terms still produce no results when searched, even though my account is more than a year old. Is there a reason for this?
     
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  19. Friedman

    Friedman Administrator

    Thank you for your concern! I'm probably the least happy about it.

    I have already relaxed the restrictions significantly.

    All stories can be accessed as long as you have an account with a confirmed email address.

    This is the current list. The reason is still that stakeholders make demands, generally speaking.

    family
    reluctance
    reluc
    incest
    non-consent
    non-con
    non- consent
    non consent
    non con
    nonconsent
    dubious consent
    questionable consent
    non-consensual
    reluctant
    rape
    raped
    dub-con
    degrade
    begging to stop
    noncon
    gangrape
    forced
    kidnapping
    blackmail
    slave
    drugged
    drugs
    drug
    alcohol
    booze
    bestiality
    beastiality
    torture
    molest
    murder
    death
    unconscious
    violent
    violence
    non/con
    assault
    assassination
    assassinate
    choking
    choke
    young
    pain
    drunk
    scared
    no choice
    abducted
    desperate
    vulnerable
    hopeless
    inebriated
    drinking
    drinks
    drink
    crying
    groping
    coercion
    coerced
    force
    children
    child
    revenge
    extreme
    necrophilia
    pedophilia
    pedo
    unconcious
    abuse
     
  20. JHorcoc9

    JHorcoc9 Virgin

    How new does the account need to be? I can't remember when I made my account, but I posted my first chapters in 2020. I noticed that a whole story that I had written chapters for has now disappeared and I can't even see the chapters that I wrote for it. I assumed it had been deleted, but from this post it sounds like maybe it is just hidden?

    Do the categories of stories from the banned word list still exist somewhere? If so, how can I access them?