Mature Content Sub-forum?

Mature Content Subforum

  • Yay

    Votes: 11 55.0%

  • Nay

    Votes: 9 45.0%
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Channizard

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So I was thinking. Why don't you guys have a Mature Content sub-forum? Not for anything gross like porn (well.. I only say this to help my case :wacky: I know the guys will be jumping all over that) but for mature discussions? I'm not sure if anyone else has felt this way, but sometimes there are just topics that are personal but you need advice on.

Perhaps you're going through a dry spell with your bf/gf and want some advice as to how to spice things up. Perhaps you want some tips and tricks about what positions feel good, and for whom and where. Perhaps you wanna talk about all the places you've done it (this can easily be a good natured, lawl worthy topic), or about how many partners you've had, and what number classifies you as a player/slut? What if you wanna talk about your first time? (Again, this topic is easily lawl worthy considering most people that I've known have had awful first times... good natured lawls though for sure.)

It could be a sub-forum purely for the discussion that may seem like it belongs in Sleeping Forest/Temple of the Ancients, but they're still too personal for that area.

Now I know what you're thinking. "Gee Channy, great idea! But what about all the little kids we're gonna be scarring for life? Or people who are just gonna post and not take shit seriously?"

Well I'll tell you what we're gonna do. You guys have a few hidden sub forums that are only accessible via group joinage/password that are mostly for Staff, or Gamer/Graffix Clans/Groups. It can easily just be an addition to those.

I know y'all have the power to create a new usergroup that you as staff can give access to certain members who could request to join/view the Mature Content Forum. And of course you could create guide lines for it in the first place to further prevent trollage/awfulness. A standard starting point could be that users need to be 18/19 to even have the option viewable in their profile for them to join the subforum. And, as with most request processes, they make an appeal to the Mod of the sub forum, who, upon looking through their profile and previous posts (probably reflecting most on those found in SF and TotA for mature behaviour) would be the decision maker for who could join.

Now I know there's possible room for potential drama here, people who would whinge about applying and not being able to join, but hey... it's a Mature Content forum... if you can't be mature about it and patient for whichever reason that you may need to wait to join, such as age, then you probably shouldn't be allowed to join in the first place.

So... What does everybody think? I've attached a poll to this as well mainly to see what the general concensus is aboot it. Mods, members, everybody alike! Vote and discuss your opinions on it.

....oh. And of course, I would have to be the Mod. It was my idea after all. :mokken:





.........:monster:
 
Even if I personally never use it (which I hope too) there is no reason other people can't benefit from it.
 
I was a member of another forum that had something like that. It only showed up if you were 18 or above.

But it was mainly porn....not that I really looked...but you'd be amazed at how quickly you got the general idea.

I think it's an interesting idea if you ask me. As long as it isn't all porn, and there's a least a few serious discussions. Would you do this person gets boring after a while...XD

I voted yes.
 
I remember a forum who had that, it also had a password were you can request it from the staff to enter, as sometimes kids gets curious. >_>

I'm not against it, it seems good, as long as it only discuss serious stuff, not just spam porn and what not.
 
Well and that's the thing, I know that it seems like porn is all that it's going to downgrade into, but that's what the Mod is for, right? A simple deleting of the thread or post, and voila.. Porn begone!

Also I'm really glad everybody has been open minded about this so far. :3
 
If the requirement to get in the sub-forum is to be mature, there's not a single member of this site who would ever see it. :wacky:

Seriously though, there's not really anything stopping you from putting up a thread on these particular topics as it stands, and I don't think you'd catch a whole lot of grief from anyone if you did. As long as things remained relatively decent and didn't devolve into ... well ... what those types of things could possibly devolve into.
 
Rule Number One: No Jesse's Allowed. :mokken:

But really, I know that a lot of the aforementioned topics could make a lot of people squeemish, and sometimes, juuuuust sometimes you get that one or two people who post shit and don't take it seriously, trying to ruin the thread's worth. And there are quite a few topics at hand in that genre, hence why I think it deserves it's own section.
 
I'm clearly not mature enough to get in anyway. :mokken:

:-)sad3:)

As far as the thread ruiners, that's why you don't put it in spam. Costa, or possibly TotA would take care of that.
 
There's a whole list of those unworthy. :mokken:

I know. :gonk: But still, there's the whole squeemish thing, you know? And at least if it's in its own section, people won't have to look at it and feel uncomfortable because they won't know it's there. And while TotA is appropriate for some risque threads, it's not for a whole lot of others which could hold potential for discussion and relatability.
 
I think we had an idea like this before, but Lord Golbez outright just said No to any kind of mature content. I'm not sure if it's because the host won't allow it or/and he doesn't want that kind of content on the site. :monster:

I'm pretty neutral on the subject... I don't think the members of our forum would gain much use from it, though. Before you knew it we'd all be teasing each other on msn because someone who doesnt know how to eat cooch thinks the fence painting technique works :monster:
 
Channizard said:
There's a whole list of those unworthy. :mokken:

I know. :gonk: But still, there's the whole squeemish thing, you know? And at least if it's in its own section, people won't have to look at it and feel uncomfortable because they won't know it's there. And while TotA is appropriate for some risque threads, it's not for a whole lot of others which could hold potential for discussion and relatability.
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I get what you're saying there. What if the title doesn't seem so bad, so someone clicks on, not knowing what it's about, and ends up at something they didn't want to know. That would increase the chance of offending someone.

It'd be easier just to make another sub-forum, and probably get less complaining from the people who don't want to read it.

BTW, I don't know if anyone here would really post porn if you told them not to. The other forum sort of encouraged it, but apparently that's what happens when Madonna fans congregate....:gasp:
 
I don't see a "Mature Content" sub-forum really working. There may be some issues that, as you say, others may feel uncomfortable talking about, you could always include a warning in the thread description, or, people don't really have to read it.

I'm not a fan of a mature content sub-forum, since inevitably, it will lead to people posting porn, which is something we don't really want. I can't think of anything that would go into a "mature content" sub-forum that can't already be discussed in another section of the site. The last thing we need is yet more sub-forums. xD
 
i also think this would be a marvellous idea to add to the forum. i would be happy to get myself involved in a few serious debates and topics for a change :)
 
I can't exactly sign off to anything Channy. If what Derek says is true concerning mature content and LG disagreeing with it, well he's the bossman and I'm sure he has good reasoning behind it. Especially if folks start posting images per se, also the fact if kids do enter it well.. it could exploit the site a little.

My thoughts are to go ahead and create your threads, though be sure to include "mature content." If folks are going to start to act up, well their stuff will be deleted on the spot. There is nothing preventing you to discussing life. Sex is not an "uncommon" issue. To ignore the subject is naivety. I won't participate though.
 
I think it was stevie who said it but popping [Mature Content] in the thread title really eliminates the need for a sub-forums. Personally I think a sub-forum would end up being a place that people used to post what they liked and pass it as 'Adult Discussion'. Deciding who gets in would be difficult, screening people on level of maturity would be impossible also I think. Nothing is stopping new people putting in any DOB they like, or the fact that some places have different rules on when someone is an adult such as 21+ or 18+
 
I like the idea because some people have yet to discover many adult aspects of life, however I dont think FFF is really the place for adult discussions.
Also screening and seperating children from adults is very hard to do and even some adults are more childish then some children.

I hate to see little cildren here watching adult discussions what doesnt concern them yet here on FFF so a special ADULT section seems like a good idea, but someone can say he/she is 18+ but how could you possibly know that is truly the case.
 
The Sleeping Forest already has threads with content that I think most people would call mature. Paedophelia and rape threads come to mind. As people have already said, it wouldn't be a problem to post threads of a sexual nature. If people are uncomfortable, they can just avoid the thread entirely.
 
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