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Midnight Ranting: Just Me Whining About Policy Updates
7 years ago
Welcome to another journal in my MR series!
Along with every website ever!, FA updated its policies to reflect the EU’s GDPR. (I won't go in detail about the GDPR if only because I'm butthurt over parts of it. I'm sure there are less bias sources.)
Some of the various changes includes additions to the CoC: Fender wrote:2.4 - Do not harass anyone.
[...] and remarks which discuss personal grievances, quarrels, malicious rumors, or negative statements about other individuals. This does not include civil discussions about topics of public interest such as celebrities or government officials, but does include 'bewares' and similar content. I underlined the parts that I want to whine about.
The first paragraph is what made me want to write a MR entry. Not only is it implied, it flat-out uses Bewares as an example of ban-able offences. (For those not in the know, Bewares are warnings often collected on pages and dedicated websites about users that have been conned and proof of the con with the purpose of alerting prospecting buyers that do their research.) You could argue that only official mods should be able to decide if a user is a con, but what power do FA mods have on dA or other sites? Bewares are specifically tailored to be as to-the-point and damning as possible, as well as easily searchable.
Fender wrote:[...] If a particular type of content does not appeal to you, then do not seek it out to make disparaging comments. [...] On the other side, I'm thrilled that "content poaching" has been directly addressed in the CoC. While I have been relatively unaffected, I know a good handful of users that are harassed on almost everything they post. (Think: vore, TF, other definitely not realistic kinks. Even some possible ones like paw.)
...Kind of unrelated, but I'm salty about the age increase too. PFQ recently took a step in the opposite direction: the age requirement (stated in the required ToS) is still the same, but new players are no longer forced to enter their birthday; this allows for less kids lying about their age while leaving PFQ completely in the right if something comes up. There is plenty of perfectly SFW content on FA, if only people would learn how to tag...
Along with every website ever!, FA updated its policies to reflect the EU’s GDPR. (I won't go in detail about the GDPR if only because I'm butthurt over parts of it. I'm sure there are less bias sources.)
Some of the various changes includes additions to the CoC: Fender wrote:2.4 - Do not harass anyone.
[...] and remarks which discuss personal grievances, quarrels, malicious rumors, or negative statements about other individuals. This does not include civil discussions about topics of public interest such as celebrities or government officials, but does include 'bewares' and similar content. I underlined the parts that I want to whine about.
The first paragraph is what made me want to write a MR entry. Not only is it implied, it flat-out uses Bewares as an example of ban-able offences. (For those not in the know, Bewares are warnings often collected on pages and dedicated websites about users that have been conned and proof of the con with the purpose of alerting prospecting buyers that do their research.) You could argue that only official mods should be able to decide if a user is a con, but what power do FA mods have on dA or other sites? Bewares are specifically tailored to be as to-the-point and damning as possible, as well as easily searchable.
Fender wrote:[...] If a particular type of content does not appeal to you, then do not seek it out to make disparaging comments. [...] On the other side, I'm thrilled that "content poaching" has been directly addressed in the CoC. While I have been relatively unaffected, I know a good handful of users that are harassed on almost everything they post. (Think: vore, TF, other definitely not realistic kinks. Even some possible ones like paw.)
...Kind of unrelated, but I'm salty about the age increase too. PFQ recently took a step in the opposite direction: the age requirement (stated in the required ToS) is still the same, but new players are no longer forced to enter their birthday; this allows for less kids lying about their age while leaving PFQ completely in the right if something comes up. There is plenty of perfectly SFW content on FA, if only people would learn how to tag...
