Questionable Questing

That sentence seems really strangely formulated. After staring at it for awhile, I think it's because you've said you'll never know why right after stating the reason why.

It's because the rule was ultimately implemented to defend those people for saying...a certain word, let's say.

But it's not good enough for them, because the rule said 'if a real person doesn't want you to use this word to refer to them or in their thread, don't'.

They're idiots who don't realize they've been given carte blanche to say it all they like, or perhaps they're just so self-important that they need girls like yours truly to very prominently and personally know they hate us specifically.

It's a good idea to look at the people who are celebrating one of your decisions or reading a work, and evaluate them based on that.

So if your decision is surrounded by people complaining about 'SJWs' or saying even this will turn you into SV/Resetera, well...

I get all that and understood what you were referring to, but the sentence itself didn't seem to make sense ('this is why but I'll never know why').

On the rule itself: It is just 'codifying' what was already the case moderating-wise, so I'm slightly unsure of its necessity? I guess it might be helpful for newbies, or standardising moderation if there's some differences of opinion in staff.

I think staff are just annoyed people keep calling them transphobes. Funny, that.

Is this about the rule addition? Do you know what triggered that?

I mean, unless there's some other rule I don't know about, maybe?

Long-term, recurring periods of people being mad at the mods about their policy regarding A Certain Word, and associated accusations, including some prominent members or incidents here or there.

Short-term? No idea if there was one specific incident in this case. A couple weeks ago I heard rumblings about one of those 'prominent complainers', but I don't know anything happened with her specifically recently.

Huh, what an oddity then, cause it kinda came out of no where.

I personally kinda cringe when I hear/see "that word". I mean, it seems like it could be really offensive cause it's based on well, people getting hurt/killed as a stupid panic defense. I see it used, if not a lot, then at least regularly and I kinda cringe sometimes.

I don't really want to offend anyone by using it but I don't know the general opinion on it either.

It's generally fairly safe not to use it because alternatives exist ('femboy' seems to be the one of the moment). And personally I do enjoy seeing a cute boy getting fucked from time to time, you know?

But my short answer is that your initial instinct is more or less correct.

Going by the thread on the rule change and every time it's come up on QQ that I've seen, the majority are pretty defensive of their right to use it. I try not to, for the same reason that I try and stick to they/them, but the local culture seems to heavily lean towards the opinion 'It's either harmless, or a compliment'.

I'm writing up a thing to explain my feelings on the situation to my friends, it's fairly complicated for a bunch of reasons. I might clean it up from certain information and PM it to people or post it...*somewhere*.

Anyway. Not using it is perfectly safe and loses very little, and the particular aesthetic and genre has not lost any popularity, so dying on this hill seems kinda pointless to me?

" I do enjoy seeing a cute boy getting fucked from time to time, you know?"
Yes, I too enjoy that.

But yeah, striking one word from my written vocabulary that I don't think I've ever utter out loud seems pretty easy to me. I don't see why anyone would want to use such a devise word but what do I know.

Oh well I guess. Welp, I'm off to bed, I hope you have a nice day Queen Fi!

I know a lot of people who are upset about this, myself included, and we're all here largely because the alternative is 'not having NSFW content'.

I've written tons of stuff that, if the majority of the site were like the people in that thread, would not be anywhere near as popular as it is. I think it's just a situation of forum politics involving only a minority of people, as usual.