So I've had some clear ideas on restructuring the forum, primarily of reducing the amount of individual forums.
As it stood originally:
- Werewolves
- What Should a Werewolf Be?
- Werewolf Film, Comics, Novels, etc
- Freeborn & AB Films
- General
- Introductions
- General Stuff
- The Pack - General Business
- Website Updates, merge into The Pack - General Business
- Entertainment
- Meetings and Conventions, merge into General Stuff
- Tech Support, merge into General stuff, or delete
- Creative Den
- Artwork (werewolf-based)
- Artwork (non-werewolf), merge into Artwork (werewolf-based)
- Writing (werewolf-based)
- Writing (non-werewolf), merge into Writing (werewolf-based)
- Costumes/Props
- Classifieds
- Link to other sites, merge into Classifieds
- Roleplaying
- Informal roleplaying
- Formal roleplaying
- Roleplaying Games, put under Entertainment?
- Werewolves
- What Should a Werewolf Be?
- Werewolf Film, Comics, Novels, etc
- Freeborn & AB Films
- General
- Introductions
- General Stuff
- The Pack - General Business
- Entertainment
- Creative Den
- Artwork
- Writing
- Costumes/Props
- Classifieds & Links
- Roleplaying
- Informal roleplaying
- Formal roleplaying
Adult Content
So I've had an idea on revising the content policy but in a way that should cause the least possible amount of alienation to anyone.
The premise would be having a separate hidden forum section, that's only visible by manually opting into an 'adult' group. It would not be a place for all sorts of generic humanly-anthro "furry kink p0rn", and would keep a rather werewolf-related focus with narrow posting limitations. It'd be a separate forum category which would include boards of: General Discussion, Artwork, and Writing. Sexually explicit content would be permitted (but only in the select forums), it would only be werewolf-related (not a catch-all for all 'furry pr0n'), and the art section would possibly be limited to having artwork posted by the creators, not the fans, perhaps.
My rationale is:
- It shouldn't alienate those that take no interest in it, as it would require manually opting in, and it's not intended to turn the whole community into some raving porn website. It would preferably barely even be known by most of it even existing (as it wouldn't be promoted or anything)
- There is a very large amount of active, or previously active members of this forum, that admittingly partake in online communities of similar nature, but most of those communities are just generic 'furry' communities without a werewolf focus
- It would filter out any borderline "suggestive" artwork or other creative works from being in non-adult sections, as the content administration would probably become more stringent in the non-adult sections. It would still allow an area for artists to post their content that's on the border of being completely spotlessly clean and mature (whereas borderline content would go into mature), whereas by comparison there are some communities that are too overly strict on realistic canine anatomy that don't allow an artist to post at all