First some backstory:
So I got banned from SB. Somehow this is both surprising and expected. When I had first made an account there I hadn't actually expected to post anything and simple just wanted to lurk in the shadowy abyss enjoying stories without putting things out there for fear of repercussions. After a while I had forgotten I even had an account since the stories I had watched steadily became forgotten as the ZnT hype died down.
But I journeyed back in when I had found out a favorite author of mine, Chibi-Reaper, was posting adventure threads inside. I had not actually ever even read a CYOA thread prior and hadn't was reluctant. Even more so when the options were fairly limited to series I hadn't any real knowledge of. But then I read Witch Quest.
Many of you who frequent BROB probably know about Witch Quest, and chibi as well. In a manor of months it went from just your average PMMM thread to the Second largest and most visted thread in BROB. Also that this happened to coincide with when I started posting fanarts about the main character allowed me to boost my ego since I could take some small amount of credit for it's rise in popularity.
It wasn't long afterwards that I started to get relaxed around the site and started posting elsewhere. A couple other CYOA threads and such. Eventually I started a couple of my own. Of the 4 only one really seemed to thrive, PokeQuest. PokeQuest the story about a psycho gender confused yandere who murdered her brother in the second act. Yeah, in hindsight I'm wondering how it even made it that far. In all honesty I had really like the quest, even if it had gone in a direction I had never expected. I ended up spending more time creating extra material than I did on the actual story, working out the history, the mechanics, characters I hadn't gotten around to introducing yet. I had big plans and was really expecting to go pretty far with it.
But I had gotten to relaxed, I had forgotten that not everywhere is as apathetic and lazy about enforcing rules as TFF, and I had posted a snip where in one character threatened sell the MC into sex slavery after a failed murder attempt. Honestly I have no excuse for that, though I had quickly afterwards gone and posted another snip where in the character reveals it was only a threat and had never expected to follow through. That I wasn't immediately banned afterwards seemed like a sign that Mods had either forgiven or ignored me so I went on posting a bit afterwards. ...And then I got banned.
It's not permanent, and I can easily get around it by simply deleting my cookies and maybe just making a new account. But I'm not. This whole experience reminds me of my youth. My parents where rather hands off in raising me and as a result I was a bit of a brat. I had a foul mouth. One day I said some rather rude things in front of my grandparents and got a smack and soap in my mouth. I learned a valuable lesson from that, it wasn't 'Don't insult your grandma' but rather 'to be on the safe side, don't say anything at all. Odds are you're just gonna end up talking shit again'. It seemed like a good idea, but kinda backfired when my family had to move into her house for a while.
It was kinda like hell, I had a near compulsion to talk shit about things, and while I could censer myself for a while eventually I'd slip up. And that's when I learned another valuable lesson 'if you have to do it, find somewhere else where no one cares'. And that's how I discovered the internet, and later TFF.
In the end I doubt I'll post on SB again, even if I'll be keeping my account to read the threads I frequent. But sadly I'm lacking a place to vent, as TFF is pretty much dying slowly and lacks CYOA enthusiasts and numbers. Plus after so long here anonymity sort of lost a bit of it's meaning. So for now I'm looking for a forum with decent population or at least good turnover, forgiving or apathetic mods if any, and where CYOA threads won't be immediately vetoed.
So I got banned from SB. Somehow this is both surprising and expected. When I had first made an account there I hadn't actually expected to post anything and simple just wanted to lurk in the shadowy abyss enjoying stories without putting things out there for fear of repercussions. After a while I had forgotten I even had an account since the stories I had watched steadily became forgotten as the ZnT hype died down.
But I journeyed back in when I had found out a favorite author of mine, Chibi-Reaper, was posting adventure threads inside. I had not actually ever even read a CYOA thread prior and hadn't was reluctant. Even more so when the options were fairly limited to series I hadn't any real knowledge of. But then I read Witch Quest.
Many of you who frequent BROB probably know about Witch Quest, and chibi as well. In a manor of months it went from just your average PMMM thread to the Second largest and most visted thread in BROB. Also that this happened to coincide with when I started posting fanarts about the main character allowed me to boost my ego since I could take some small amount of credit for it's rise in popularity.
It wasn't long afterwards that I started to get relaxed around the site and started posting elsewhere. A couple other CYOA threads and such. Eventually I started a couple of my own. Of the 4 only one really seemed to thrive, PokeQuest. PokeQuest the story about a psycho gender confused yandere who murdered her brother in the second act. Yeah, in hindsight I'm wondering how it even made it that far. In all honesty I had really like the quest, even if it had gone in a direction I had never expected. I ended up spending more time creating extra material than I did on the actual story, working out the history, the mechanics, characters I hadn't gotten around to introducing yet. I had big plans and was really expecting to go pretty far with it.
But I had gotten to relaxed, I had forgotten that not everywhere is as apathetic and lazy about enforcing rules as TFF, and I had posted a snip where in one character threatened sell the MC into sex slavery after a failed murder attempt. Honestly I have no excuse for that, though I had quickly afterwards gone and posted another snip where in the character reveals it was only a threat and had never expected to follow through. That I wasn't immediately banned afterwards seemed like a sign that Mods had either forgiven or ignored me so I went on posting a bit afterwards. ...And then I got banned.
It's not permanent, and I can easily get around it by simply deleting my cookies and maybe just making a new account. But I'm not. This whole experience reminds me of my youth. My parents where rather hands off in raising me and as a result I was a bit of a brat. I had a foul mouth. One day I said some rather rude things in front of my grandparents and got a smack and soap in my mouth. I learned a valuable lesson from that, it wasn't 'Don't insult your grandma' but rather 'to be on the safe side, don't say anything at all. Odds are you're just gonna end up talking shit again'. It seemed like a good idea, but kinda backfired when my family had to move into her house for a while.
It was kinda like hell, I had a near compulsion to talk shit about things, and while I could censer myself for a while eventually I'd slip up. And that's when I learned another valuable lesson 'if you have to do it, find somewhere else where no one cares'. And that's how I discovered the internet, and later TFF.
In the end I doubt I'll post on SB again, even if I'll be keeping my account to read the threads I frequent. But sadly I'm lacking a place to vent, as TFF is pretty much dying slowly and lacks CYOA enthusiasts and numbers. Plus after so long here anonymity sort of lost a bit of it's meaning. So for now I'm looking for a forum with decent population or at least good turnover, forgiving or apathetic mods if any, and where CYOA threads won't be immediately vetoed.