Author Topic: Can graphic violence or sex in Role Plays become unacceptable in BM?  (Read 10486 times)

Chenier

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Yes, you can mute someone in-game. That covers all of their messages. Or just *not read* their RPs (or RPs in general). I mean, that kind of thing only finds itself in RPs, and RPs pretty much never have important information for strictly game mechanics day to day things. You can also stop reading an RP the moment you start disliking it, nothing's forcing you to read the whole thing.

The world isn't a safe space. On the whole, I find the BM community to have been a mature one with these topics, without devolving to wanton depravity for the sake of it while also not devolving to puritan sanitizing.

The subject has come up a few times over the years. It's always the same: Yea, sometimes a few people go into sensitive places, but it doesn't get abused enough to be considered to really be of bad faith.

RPs is a form of literary art. And good art is one that makes you feel things. Not always good things.

And this one, in particular, doesn't really have any particularly depraved elements. He didn't go and write a 50000 word comprehensive description of a gratuitous rape. It was merely a brief passage of wanton violence that, in the end, fairly accurately describes what the game mechanics being used could imply. If you don't want to see this kind of thing, then have your characters petition for hostile takeovers to be banned. Because there's no way to nicely brutalize people into submission.
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