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Thaddeus

RIP SoFurry

As of today, characters under the age of 18 in sexual situations are no longer allowed.  
Here's the actual post:   https://www.sofurry.com/siteupdate/view?id=150
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Added: 2 years, 11 months ago
 
MrCoyote
2 years, 11 months ago
Your fault! I told you that you should continue that saga of the pink-haired motorcycle unicorn saving the world! Now the killer whale is furious, it wants blood and our stories will pay for it! >: (
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
Lol.
Krayton
2 years, 11 months ago
They didn't allow cub, so I wasn't there already since that's a pretty big chunk of "what I do"

But it might not be a "RIP" they're certainly shooting themselves in the foot.

Sadly, they're still better than the toxic mods at FA.
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
They allowed cub content in writing, but not in visual mediums.  Now they don't allow it in any media.
Greywin
2 years, 11 months ago
Looks like Toumal hasn't updated the actual AUP to reflect the siteupdate announcement just yet. You can still get away with it for a few more hours. :3
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
I already gutted my stuff.  The story content of every cub story has been replaced with a link to my profile here.
Greywin
2 years, 11 months ago
That was a smooth idea! I like it.
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
Thanks!
BrunoHirschkoff
2 years, 11 months ago
That's not a bad idea! I just sat down and took a look at my 100,000 word Bond of Brothers story arc, which to adhere to SoF's AUP would need to be almost entirely rewritten...

While I have been intending to rewrite it anyway to clean up some elements and remove any lingering suggestions of adult-cub incest between Bruno and his sons, 3 days isn't enough time to do so.
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
You actually have six months, but that still requires you to put any other stories you have on hold to do it, at least during the time that you're doing it.  I went an easy route to stay true the stories rather than butcher them for others sensibility.  
MviluUatusun
2 years, 11 months ago
I guess it's a good thing I'm not a porn writer nor do I write anything that might possibly put a youngster in a sexual situation.  Although in a chapter I'm going to be posting this weekend I have a character talk about his younger sister getting pregnant at 15 and giving birth at 16, I don't get specific as to what happened.
Greywin
2 years, 11 months ago
Didn't look like their AUP forbid reference to underage occurrences talked about in past tense. I guess as long as you didn't go all, *Flashback* *Describe scene in detail* you're probably safe.
MviluUatusun
2 years, 11 months ago
I guess I'll find out in a few days.  I'm not a porn writer so, even if I talk about a couple in bed, I don't get into specific detail as to what's going on.  But, as Thaddeus says, if they're going to ban all references to "cub" sex, they might ban the chapter.  We'll see.  However, if I'm forced to take it down, I will post links to where it can be found.
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
That might very well be enough to prevent if from being allowed.  Seemed like Toumal was gonna be pretty strict about it.
MviluUatusun
2 years, 11 months ago
I guess I'll find out soon.  I don't go into details (I'm no porn writer.).  All I do is have the brother character tell the protagonist about his sister and the son of her employer falling in love and winding up in bed where the grandfather catches them and throws her out of the house.  (It's a rich family and she's from a lower-middle-class family.)  I don't even describe what either of them look like naked.  So, maybe SF will let it slide.  MAYBE.
moyomongoose
2 years, 11 months ago
Furaffinity 2.0
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
I think it's still *slightly* better than FA.  But that might change as the crusaders start moving in in earnest.  
Greywin
2 years, 11 months ago
So far Inkbunny has been the easiest to use. Much easier to move around this site than the others. That's to bad about SoFurry. I hadn't heard anything negative about it and always saw it on folk's linked accounts. So, for me it was sort of a part of the furry landscape.
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
InkBunny is definitely the better site, but SF was decent as a second.
DoubleDude
2 years, 11 months ago
sure hope that shits not gunna happen here on IB too
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
I highly doubt that.  As far as I am aware, all the current IB mods like cub content.  All you have to do is look at their galleries to see that.
DoubleDude
2 years, 11 months ago
well thats good but theres still all taht legal shit along wiht the banks and credit companeis crusade vs fetish porn so.... =(
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
This is a fair point, but I imagine that Greenreaper would switch to a new payment processor.
Eclipse97
2 years, 11 months ago
It's a bit sad that sofurry took the course they did but I'm just glad one of my favorite artists is also on here.
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
Who's your favorite artist?
Eclipse97
2 years, 10 months ago
Sorry for the late reply its been a hectic few weeks. I can't say that I have any particular number one favorite but more of a general pool of favorites who make good content with a good mix of story and sex.
Thaddeus
2 years, 10 months ago
No worries, Eclipse.  Are you familiar with Winterimage?
Eclipse97
2 years, 10 months ago
Haven't seen them yet, no.
Thaddeus
2 years, 10 months ago
JCSolis01
2 years, 11 months ago
I don't include minors in my adult stories anyways, at least not in sexual encounters or scenes, so this doesn't affect me much. But this wave of being politically correct is getting out of hand, imo.

What are they really that afraid of being accused of hosting child pornography that they'd shoot themselves in the foot and anger their users?
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
According to the explanation offered by Toumal, he received a cease and desist order for that type of content, because it violated the laws of the country it was hosted in.
His hands are tied, but god damn it sucks.
JCSolis01
2 years, 11 months ago
But that's the country. I'm talking about the website.
Then again, the issues with different countries is pretty finicky. What's legal somewhere is illegal elsewhere, and knowing this I can at least understand Toumal's concern with this being the case. I just think, and I know tons others think this as well, that we might have needed a bit of warning beforehand.

Any way you slice it, it doesn't seem fair. I understand Toumal's choice, but it's still a bitter pill for users to swallow.
AlexReynard
2 years, 11 months ago
"We could fight this irrational criminalization of fantasy fiction, but it might personally inconvenience us at some point in the future, so instead we'll fuck over all our artists instead."

They qactually sent me an email saying I should voluntarily delete my cub stories from their site. Ha ha. No. Y'all wanna censor, y'all can do the dirty work yourselves.
Thaddeus
2 years, 11 months ago
Your work is already hidden, set to drafts.  Also, it's not work for Toumal.  It's a script.  All he has to do is push a button.  What I did was replace the body of the text with a link to my profile and remove the cub tag from the list.  I've gotten a nice little influx of watchers over here, where I'm more active anyway.  
AlexReynard
2 years, 11 months ago
Yeah, I posted some stuff to SoFurry YEEEEARRRRS ago and hated the site layout so much I buggered off.
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