- Jun 12, 2019
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I've been probing around a bit, doing Administrator things, and I have noticed a trend on the site that doesn't exactly thrill me. As you all doubtless know, Umbra is meant for adults. Nobody under the age of 18 is allowed to join our community, for plenty of reasons. Unfortunately, when you advertise as "Adult only" there are a lot of people who hear "because of pornography".
I don't want to discourage horny people. I have no desire to cause anyone to feel like "The Other" because of what they want to write about. That said, Umbra isn't intended as a place for purely sexual pursuits.
I've been pondering ways to address this for a while now (and if you have any ideas then do share them with me via DM), and one notion I've had is as follows. Two Request Thread forums; one for primarily plot purposes, and one for more sex-oriented things. Here's some notions for how it might work:
A tl;dr:
Umbra has a lot of very horny people. I want to give the people who just want to write stories a place to thrive. To do so, we'll start by dividing the RT forum into two separate spaces. Y/N? Vote in the poll.
I don't want to discourage horny people. I have no desire to cause anyone to feel like "The Other" because of what they want to write about. That said, Umbra isn't intended as a place for purely sexual pursuits.
I've been pondering ways to address this for a while now (and if you have any ideas then do share them with me via DM), and one notion I've had is as follows. Two Request Thread forums; one for primarily plot purposes, and one for more sex-oriented things. Here's some notions for how it might work:
- A "Plot" RT would have a plot/smut ratio from 100/0 to 70/30. Still some smut involved, but more story-centric smut, sex that happens for a reason other than 'they're both just SO aroused!'
- A "Smut" RT would have a plot/smut ratio from 60/40 to 0/100. A lot more smut-for-the-sake-of-smut, because sometimes you just have that one kink and you gotta work it out.
- This would not affect the Roleplay Haven, since if you don't want to read people's horny RPs you don't have to.
A tl;dr:
Umbra has a lot of very horny people. I want to give the people who just want to write stories a place to thrive. To do so, we'll start by dividing the RT forum into two separate spaces. Y/N? Vote in the poll.