I'm totally with vison on that one!
I don't want to know what my friends do in bed either - but I read the threads nevertheless. I made very strange reading.
Estel, ok about the forum not being really hidden.
A few points on the things I brought up earlier:
Lidless just made a good post about the subject, but is very optimistic that people will have good judgement about what belongs in the adult forum and what is ok to say openly.
I just don't know what is ok and what isn't, and I'm wondering how vague we can afford to be.
As for content elsewhere on the boards... well - I'm not going to say we should have a TOS like TORC - that's ridiculous. I would simply limit it to what you see on TV - say, "Friends" or "Desperate Housewives." I wouldn't say those shows are too PG, or even PG-13 for anyone on these boards.
Sex is a part of life - I don't think we should ignore it on the rest of the boards and try to be TORC like. Teasing, innuendo and flirting are some of the best things that we can do here, that we couldn't do on TORC. That should be able to stay on the normal part of the boards.
It would be better, in my opinion, if the explicit conversations we are having were in a forum for that type of... explicitness.
Yes, things like Ax's threads are definitely a case for a forum of that kind.
But I still don't know where that "normal" amount of sexual content ends!
If it really is a legal issue, how do we know when we cross the line?
Ax asked:
truehobbit--
When a thread veers off into sex, it's going to be up to the posters involved as to when or if it moves. Or is it? Will this be something that Lidless and Estel have to decide, as it's their collective butt out there?
That's exactly what I don't know.
For example:
What about my implying over in the Oreo thread that inter-species sex has something to do with him? To my great pleasure, some thought it was funny. But Guru seemed to think it was a bit gross. (Amazed to see I could shock Guru!
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What about lidless saying that he "stroked Jae's pussy"? (Isn't Jae a minor into the bargain?) I thought that was skirting the edge of taste very precariously. But I was ROFL nevertheless.
Frankly, I just wouldn't know what is off-limits.
Edit: I just looked at the new forum. Love the name and the introductory post - excellent disclaimer, IMO!