SB banned me; I'm looking for a new forum...

#1
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.
 

WizardOne

Well-Known Member
#2
Master of Squirrel-Fu said:
First some backstory:
There isnt one.

You're Shit out of luck. Frankly.

There are thousands of very small mini forums and the occaisional franchise specific slightly larger forum with a CYOA section.

Unfortunately, SB is the biggest, the best, and pretty much the only when it comes to that sort of thing.



Now, if you're willing to expand out of 'Forums' and into 'image boards' theres /TG/ on 4chan, which can be pretty awesome for that sort of thing, they pretty much run on quests.

If you're up for Specific franchise based things:

There's: <a href='http://www.touhou-project.com/storylist.php' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.touhou-project.com/storylist.php</a>

Thats a link to the Tohou Project CYOA story page.

Both /TG/ and Tohou Project are EXTREMELY lax in enforcing rules, (to the extent that there's blatant loli story porn in both on occasion) and they operate just fine with no interception from authorities. Both would probably be more to your tastes than Spacebattles.

I wish you luck with either/both.

I personally have severe issues with the spacebattles mods, their anti-sexual content burning crusades have extended as far as harassment in some cases.

Its dissapointing from my personal perspective that such a wonderful forum has such a shit leadership, but there's nothing to be done.

Spacebattles would be ideal if they just had a 'questionable' section, where people could post lemons and quests that were a little on the extreme side. I have no idea why they don't just do this. Instead, they waste hours and hours of their mods time and effort keeping an eye on all the thousands of threads for any illegal content.

As it stands, everyone has to be afraid of accidentally stepping over the line, because doing so means instant execution.
 
#3
That's a darn shame, Squirrely-Sama. PokeQuest was good.
Seriously why did they consider it a bannable offense?That level of material isa dime a dozen in Creative Writing.
As far as other boards go, it's SB or bust unfortunately, unless you plan to try /tg/.
 
#4
WizardOne said:
Master of Squirrel-Fu said:
First some backstory:
There isnt one.

You're Shit out of luck. Frankly.

There are thousands of very small mini forums and the occaisional franchise specific slightly larger forum with a CYOA section.

Unfortunately, SB is the biggest, the best, and pretty much the only when it comes to that sort of thing.



Now, if you're willing to expand out of 'Forums' and into 'image boards' theres /TG/ on 4chan, which can be pretty awesome for that sort of thing, they pretty much run on quests.

If you're up for Specific franchise based things:

There's: <a href='http://www.touhou-project.com/storylist.php' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.touhou-project.com/storylist.php</a>

Thats a link to the Tohou Project CYOA story page.

Both /TG/ and Tohou Project are EXTREMELY lax in enforcing rules, (to the extent that there's blatant loli story porn in both on occasion) and they operate just fine with no interception from authorities. Both would probably be more to your tastes than Spacebattles.

I wish you luck with either/both.

I personally have severe issues with the spacebattles mods, their anti-sexual content burning crusades have extended as far as harassment in some cases.

Its dissapointing from my personal perspective that such a wonderful forum has such a shit leadership, but there's nothing to be done.

Spacebattles would be ideal if they just had a 'questionable' section, where people could post lemons and quests that were a little on the extreme side. I have no idea why they don't just do this. Instead, they waste hours and hours of their mods time and effort keeping an eye on all the thousands of threads for any illegal content.

As it stands, everyone has to be afraid of accidentally stepping over the line, because doing so means instant execution.
? ? Squirrelly Sama said: ?

? ? ? <s> "Now what was it you were saying, something about bargaining power and new deals?" She coos, using one hand to support your head and the other to brush some stray hair out of your face, "I suppose turnabout is fair play. So here's a new deal, one I'm sure you'll enjoy. You can either do anything I say, answer all my questions and work for me. Everything you own will belong to me, you will belong to me. You'll be my little pet, if your good I'll even give you hugs and kiss and a nice treat! And if you're bad you'll get some discipline lessons, the unfun kind I assure you. Or you can say no to me, in which case I'll knock you out. And when you wake up you'll be surrounded by the oldest, ugliest, most disgusting sailors and vagrants I can find. Ones who haven't touched a woman in years. And I will let them take you, I'll let them taste every inch of skin on your body, I will let them destroy you. And I will watch, I will even tape it, and then I will have my friends spread those tape as far as possible to as many people as possible. ...And then I will do it all over again. ...and again. and again. Until I'm sure you've learned your lesson, 'Never, never never, never never never, never never never ever pull this kind of bullshit on Blue.'"</s>




? ? No, this is absolutely unacceptable material. I award you 500 points and never do this shit again.
And that's how I got banned. Honestly I've actually read a few things that implied worse than that and the threads are still going. They also killed a thread because some guy necroed it.

To be honest with the fear of banning, crappy orginization, and general user unfriendliness of the site settings (seriously you can't adjust the # of posts per thread) I had very little reason to stay other than Chibi's stuff and later my own quest. If anyone has an account please search for ToyQuest umong my threads and tell the guy Co-GMing it that he can take over from where I left it. Also that Masked needs to be replaced since he hasn't posted since the first one.

TG sounds fun, anything I should know about it? Also anything pokemon related since that's what I'm really hankering for.
 

NuitTombee

Immortal Capo
#5
If anyone has an account please search for ToyQuest umong my threads and tell the guy Co-GMing it that he can take over from where I left it. Also that Masked needs to be replaced since he hasn't posted since the first one.
Would this person have a specific username?

If so I could PM them, otherwise it's just be a guess and it'd probably be the wrong person.
 
#6
I assume the Co-GM was Dash931? I've taken care of it for you.
 

blabla1994

Well-Known Member
#7
According to my knowledge, the reason for the obscene zealotry about "explicit" content is largely because some guy went way, way beyond over the top with something a bit ago, and the forum was almost pulled or something because of it. So the mods became rather Lawful Stupid about it.

This is all second hand info though, as I never frequented the forum it started in.
 

Comartemis

Well-Known Member
#8
Gallyrat said:
That's a darn shame, Squirrely-Sama. PokeQuest was good.
Seriously why did they consider it a bannable offense?That level of material isa dime a dozen in Creative Writing.
No, it's really not. We got nailed by the explicit content police pretty hard too. And as much as I'd like to sympathize with Squirrely over fascist admins (I used to hang out on AnimeSuki. You SBers don't know shit about awful mods), I have to wonder what possessed him to go as far as he did in the first place knowing that the mods have such an attitude towards that sort of content.
 

seitora

Well-Known Member
#9
blabla1994 said:
According to my knowledge, the reason for the obscene zealotry about "explicit" content is largely because some guy went way, way beyond over the top with something a bit ago, and the forum was almost pulled or something because of it. So the mods became rather Lawful Stupid about it.

This is all second hand info though, as I never frequented the forum it started in.
Sounds like an Agony in Pink repeat, then

Hawk solved that by making it impossible for new people to join here or even view without an account
 
#10
Master of Squirrel-Fu said:
WizardOne said:
Master of Squirrel-Fu said:
First some backstory:
There isnt one.

You're Shit out of luck. Frankly.

There are thousands of very small mini forums and the occaisional franchise specific slightly larger forum with a CYOA section.

Unfortunately, SB is the biggest, the best, and pretty much the only when it comes to that sort of thing.



Now, if you're willing to expand out of 'Forums' and into 'image boards' theres /TG/ on 4chan, which can be pretty awesome for that sort of thing, they pretty much run on quests.

If you're up for Specific franchise based things:

There's: <a href='http://www.touhou-project.com/storylist.php' target='_blank' rel='nofollow'>http://www.touhou-project.com/storylist.php</a>

Thats a link to the Tohou Project CYOA story page.

Both /TG/ and Tohou Project are EXTREMELY lax in enforcing rules, (to the extent that there's blatant loli story porn in both on occasion) and they operate just fine with no interception from authorities. Both would probably be more to your tastes than Spacebattles.

I wish you luck with either/both.

I personally have severe issues with the spacebattles mods, their anti-sexual content burning crusades have extended as far as harassment in some cases.

Its dissapointing from my personal perspective that such a wonderful forum has such a shit leadership, but there's nothing to be done.

Spacebattles would be ideal if they just had a 'questionable' section, where people could post lemons and quests that were a little on the extreme side. I have no idea why they don't just do this. Instead, they waste hours and hours of their mods time and effort keeping an eye on all the thousands of threads for any illegal content.

As it stands, everyone has to be afraid of accidentally stepping over the line, because doing so means instant execution.
á á Squirrelly Sama said: ?

á á á? <s> "Now what was it you were saying, something about bargaining power and new deals?" She coos, using one hand to support your head and the other to brush some stray hair out of your face, "I suppose turnabout is fair play. So here's a new deal, one I'm sure you'll enjoy. You can either do anything I say, answer all my questions and work for me. Everything you own will belong to me, you will belong to me. You'll be my little pet, if your good I'll even give you hugs and kiss and a nice treat! And if you're bad you'll get some discipline lessons, the unfun kind I assure you. Or you can say no to me, in which case I'll knock you out. And when you wake up you'll be surrounded by the oldest, ugliest, most disgusting sailors and vagrants I can find. Ones who haven't touched a woman in years. And I will let them take you, I'll let them taste every inch of skin on your body, I will let them destroy you. And I will watch, I will even tape it, and then I will have my friends spread those tape as far as possible to as many people as possible. ...And then I will do it all over again. ...and again. and again. Until I'm sure you've learned your lesson, 'Never, never never, never never never, never never never ever pull this kind of bullshit on Blue.'"</s>




á á No, this is absolutely unacceptable material. I award you 500 points and never do this shit again.
And that's how I got banned. Honestly I've actually read a few things that implied worse than that and the threads are still going. They also killed a thread because some guy necroed it.

To be honest with the fear of banning, crappy orginization, and general user unfriendliness of the site settings (seriously you can't adjust the # of posts per thread) I had very little reason to stay other than Chibi's stuff and later my own quest. If anyone has an account please search for ToyQuest umong my threads and tell the guy Co-GMing it that he can take over from where I left it. Also that Masked needs to be replaced since he hasn't posted since the first one.

TG sounds fun, anything I should know about it? Also anything pokemon related since that's what I'm really hankering for.
Yup, that sounds like Thanatos alright. Keep in mind, Thanatos is actually a reasonable guy. Most of SB's mods are, really. If he were "fascist" as some might say, he'd have permabanned you.

And yeah, SB is slowly becoming/is the crossroad of the Net now. Bet Kier and most of the First Ones didn't expect that in 1999.

I still hope to see Lord Khorak return one day.
 
#11
Comartemis said:
I have to wonder what possessed him to go as far as he did in the first place knowing that the mods have such an attitude towards that sort of content.
I'm very bad at making decisions, especially on lack of sleep. Also too used to TFF's attitude of only caring if it's either very good, very bad, or caters tor their particular fetish.

Frankly I do admit it was my fault for taking that a too far. Let my guard down and tried to toe the line after going through Witch Quest and Mon of the Dead which had implied rape in both (in the first it was retconned and in the second it was Rape/murder by cultist who was hanged publicly). It's like seeing some guy steal a candy bar in front of a sleeping clerk and trying to do it yourself. Only you get caught when the guy wakes up.
 
#12
Now before you guys start putting words in my mouth I'd like to say that I'm not complaining about the guys decision to temp ban me. Yes I find it annoying and am upset about it but I respect it. I did cross a line I really shouldn't have and knew I shouldn't have. I regret posting that particular bit and wish i could have simply been given a warning beforehand so I could erase it and start again. But I'm not gonna argue about it. Like my earlier analogy, TFF is like that place with all your friends where you can let loose without too fear of repercussions only getting mocked if you do something stupid where SB is like the strict old fashioned grandparents house who will wash your mouth out with soap for being a little asshat.

All I want is a like to a place to hang out where I don't have to fear banning if I slip up like that again. Being a jerk and pervert is in my nature.
 

........

Active Member
#13
A good chunk of that likely had to do with the age of the character in question, I believe.

If you do go back and decide to try a reboot or something, avoid that particular topic entirely, and maybe have someone screen updates before you post them to make sure you're not about to cross any lines.
 
#14
........ said:
A good chunk of that likely had to do with the age of the character in question, I believe.

If you do go back and decide to try a reboot or something, avoid that particular topic entirely, and maybe have someone screen updates before you post them to make sure you're not about to cross any lines.
Technically speaking I never bothered to give any of them an age. I just wrote Teenage and have a hard time drawing breasts. To be fair though they are all under 18 even if I never stated it. But again TFF spoils me on letting me be free with my perversions.
 
#15
Master of Squirrel-Fu said:
And that's how I got banned. Honestly I've actually read a few things that implied worse than that and the threads are still going. They also killed a thread because some guy necroed it.

To be honest with the fear of banning, crappy orginization, and general user unfriendliness of the site settings (seriously you can't adjust the # of posts per thread) I had very little reason to stay other than Chibi's stuff and later my own quest. If anyone has an account please search for ToyQuest umong my threads and tell the guy Co-GMing it that he can take over from where I left it. Also that Masked needs to be replaced since he hasn't posted since the first one.

TG sounds fun, anything I should know about it? Also anything pokemon related since that's what I'm really hankering for.
Fear of banning is a fact of life like fear of going to jail. It happens if you fuck up. That said, yeah site design is pretty bad. The fact that you can't turn off people's avatars pisses me off a lot.

If you want to start stuff on /tg/ though, you have to realize that it's on 4chan, meaning everything will be gone in, at most, a day. If people like your thread, they'll archive it on sup/tg/. If not prepare it to go in the dustbins of the internet.
 
#16
A Curious Stranger said:
Fear of banning is a fact of life like fear of going to jail. It happens if you fuck up. That said, yeah site design is pretty bad. The fact that you can't turn off people's avatars pisses me off a lot.

If you want to start stuff on /tg/ though, you have to realize that it's on 4chan, meaning everything will be gone in, at most, a day. If people like your thread, they'll archive it on sup/tg/. If not prepare it to go in the dustbins of the internet.
This scarouses me.

And yes I know there's always the threat of banning but the level of the threat changes where you go. Here it's virtually nonexistent as long as you don't troll the whole forum, become a giant dickwaffle, or post porn in the normal threads. And even then it'll only happen if Hawk-sama ever bothers to not only return but check up on these things.

Hell I'd almost go so far as to say this place has even more freedom than 4chan if only for the fact that the only person capable of banning you can spend years away from forum at a time. TFF is like that city in china that somehow managed to build a successful society out of anarchy.

It's too much to hope for another TFF but someplace where I can write anything short of graphic Gore or lemons is perfect.
 

Comartemis

Well-Known Member
#17
Successful might be pushing it a bit given how dead the place has been since... forever? As long as I've been here, at least. The lemon forums are pretty much the only reason to post here instead of CrW.
 
#18
Comartemis said:
Successful might be pushing it a bit given how dead the place has been since... forever? As long as I've been here, at least. The lemon forums are pretty much the only reason to post here instead of CrW.
TFF was like one of those Wild West towns. Wildly successful in the beginning with the discovery of our 'gold' aka good authors and willing community. But after we hit our ceiling in 2008, it just went down as our gold supply went away.
 
#19
Hawk was already a legendary, rarely seen figure in January 08. So, the height might have been reached earlier.
 
#20
Delta Green Friendly said:
Hawk was already a legendary, rarely seen figure in January 08. So, the height might have been reached earlier.
Nah man, having no mods made TFF that much cooler. The forum at that point was still open to new members. So we had this sort of controlled lawlessness going on along with tons of active discussion. Not like now when Naruto is the only thing really active. Sure back then Naruto took the lion's share of attention, but the other sections saw some love.
 

biigoh

Well-Known Member
#21
Acht... I hadn't known you got banned, Squirrelly-Sama... is sad. -_-

But yes, 4chan's TG would be the best way to go. That's where Magical Girl Noir Quest is run.

You could also try Hentai Foundry and basically use the comments section for the votes and... hmmm....
 

PCHeintz72

The Sentient Fanfic Search Engine mk II
#22
A Curious Stranger said:
Delta Green Friendly said:
Hawk was already a legendary, rarely seen figure in January 08. So, the height might have been reached earlier.
Nah man, having no mods made TFF that much cooler. The forum at that point was still open to new members. So we had this sort of controlled lawlessness going on along with tons of active discussion. Not like now when Naruto is the only thing really active. Sure back then Naruto took the lion's share of attention, but the other sections saw some love.
I have never understood why some prefer no moderation... In point of fact I always felt we needed far more than it had even back when Hawk was active...


It is not a highlight... but a black mark against this forum...
 

SotF

Well-Known Member
#23
Did you get a permanent ban or a temp one, normally permanent ones tend to be for more than just one incident or something that really manages to tick off a mod or admin.
 
#24
SB is a shit forum with shit mods. Poster there makes death threats against my parents, I report his post to the admins, admins delete his post..... and then warn me for complaining, because "fuck conservatives" apparently. Some time later in another thread I defend the imprisonment of pedophiles for their crimes and get banned for "advocating the genocide of transsexuals", whatever the flying fuck that means. Meanwhile Avernus, Mackey and co. can sit around openly discussing genocide of non-atheists and the only action the mods take there is "Hey maybe you shouldn't say that" at best and agreement at worst.

Spacebattles and it's liberal fuckwits can all die in a fire. Two years of that place have taught me only that there is no compromising with subhuman scum.
 

WizardOne

Well-Known Member
#25
Dark Knight Gafgar said:
SB is a shit forum with shit mods. Poster there makes death threats against my parents, I report his post to the admins, admins delete his post..... and then warn me for complaining, because "fuck conservatives" apparently. Some time later in another thread I defend the imprisonment of pedophiles for their crimes and get banned for "advocating the genocide of transsexuals", whatever the flying fuck that means. Meanwhile Avernus, Mackey and co. can sit around openly discussing genocide of non-atheists and the only action the mods take there is "Hey maybe you shouldn't say that" at best and agreement at worst.

Spacebattles and it's liberal fuckwits can all die in a fire. Two years of that place have taught me only that there is no compromising with subhuman scum.
DKG, please shut up. You're boring and useless and overly political. Thanks
 
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