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I feel like whatever I'm going to say on this will be taken out of context or misconstrued one way or the other. It usually is in matters of abstract. Seems like there is a lot of misunderstanding is abound to be honest. We have roleplayers from all kinds of backgrounds here, some are professionals such as lawyers, doctors, business owners, etc. Some work mundane 9-5's. Some are unemployed. Some are in college or university. And everything in-between. Some aren't interested in anime, hentai or manga, they're only interested in roleplaying, some are only interested in being part of the community. We're a kind of a mix of a lot of different people who come from wildly different backgrounds, looking wildly different things. I will say, as you're new here that the very subject is kind of a polarising issue here on EcchiDreams that does come up from time to time. I will also say that this has been touched on in the Statistically Dreaming article done at the end of 2020 where it was found that: According to data given by Dreamers on their profiles, for anyone who filled out the "Sex" field in their profiles: 48.6% of our Dreamers are Male 44.8% of our Dreamers are Female 6.6% of our Dreamers are Undisclosed According to Google Analytics, however it's more closer to: 73.1% Male 26.9% Female So this does at least bring up one interesting question; which was pointed out in the topic you referenced. How would know what the specific attribute of the person your roleplaying with is, without some kind of confirmation or verification? If you're not asking for this, then fair play to you. But it is a valid question. I personally don't give two shits what the 'Gender' or 'Sex' is of the person I roleplay with is, nor do I particularly care about other physical characteristics either; such as race, ethnicity, sexuality, and so on. I'm not saying you do; I'm just saying what my stance is from the offset. I am also indifferent to those that do and don't care about any of these attributes, be that all of them, one of them or somewhere between. I don't really fully understand why anyone who is, does, but I am not required to understand the reasons. Everyone has different... requirements. As it were. Basically: I am neutral on this topic. Is it against the rules to ask for any potential roleplay partners to be specifically gendered? No, it's not. Should or will it be against the rules? No, I can't foresee that ever being likely. There are, from my experience going to be some people who want to roleplay with a person of any given attribute for any given reason, and that's okay. However there are some that are going to feel: That they are being targeted by "Predatory" behaviour that usually starts off like this. That they are going to be asked to "Prove" they are who they say they are. (Gender Confirmations) That they feel like "Meat" as it were, only valuable because of the attribute that they were born with. That someone is looking for more than just roleplaying, like Nudes, Relationships, etc. Am I saying you fit into any of these categories? Absolutely not. Nor am I saying that this is the complete catalogue. But I am trying to explain why this a contentious issue. This is normally what Section 10 is for; if someone tells someone repeatedly to stop talking to them, and they don't stop, then they can be reported and it will be dealt with under the Terms of Service. I'm not really sure what the problem is, you're not harassing anyone as far as I am aware. So I don't really see a problem here. What started off as an innocent question from another Dreamer has spiralled out all reason and I feel like there is a lot of misunderstandings going on here from all sides involved. What I do take exception to here however is: Oh do come off it. Slightly unprofessional, maybe, and that's a good thing seeing as Aura isn't being paid to work here. Unless they're acting within the bounds of being a staff member they're not required to be professional. Our staff are just "Dreamers with extra responsibilities" and unless they're acting in the capacity of being staff such as giving out bans, warning people or otherwise moderating the site: He has the right of free speech and the right to comment on things like any other Dreamer would. If he was being extremely unprofessional I'd expect to see him cussing you out, and being outright obscene, he isn't. Aura shared his opinion, nothing more. If this is 'Extreme' to you, then frankly, that is your problem and I suggest very highly that you deal with it. I will not entertain this assertion.

Please don't feel stupid; honestly, I agree with you. I will see if I can make it better but I think it shares the same language string, instead of something like "Item Unavailable" and "Unable to Afford Item" or something that would actually make sense like that. You're absolutely right when you imply that it's worded atrociously.

It's unavailable because you have insufficient on hand EcchiCredits to purchase it.

There's no "Might" about it. It would absolutely and most certainly be exploited. If we ignored this possibility and went through with it anyway, a lot of people's general user experience would be degraded severely because of it.

To be clear; we're not making our own Invision Power Suite, I'm pretty sure just ripping IPS software off would be a copyright violation. We're outright making our own software, something dedicated and designed from the ground up to serve the function that we've had to rely on heavily modifying this software to do. Unfortunately; we're hitting a limit now of how we can further customise IPS to suit our needs, and it's becoming ever more apparent that the current solution of customising IPS is woefully insufficient. We are not looking at making a forum suite; we're looking at making an entirely different kind of platform. There are a number of features that are already being included in the Alpha of the software we're working on for the next Alpha release that would - at least from a moderation point of view for roleplay owners - already be an improvement over what people can do here. One of the main issues here is that whilst one person might not mind such changes being made and they're happy to take responsibility for it; what I apply just for one person would apply to every club. These permission sets are too rigid and too monolithic, and I'm afraid that's apparently by design. A reasonable person would assume that owners have more power than administrators and administrators have more power than moderators. Which is why, when we move away from this software we're going to give club owners the powers to set the permissions of their roleplay clubs. There will be a default set, but otherwise, each club owner will be able to say what an Administrator of their club can and can't do, and what a moderator can and cannot do. Essentially customise the permissions for themselves. This is roughly what we're aiming for, and is absolutely impossible with the software we're currently using here on EcchiDreams.

You're very welcome. I can say at least from the feedback I've gotten from @Neptune that it's a moderation nightmare. We don't use templates usually for talking to Dreamers and sending messages to them. We type everything out so you can imagine why it'd be a pain in the backside to moderate it. That said, we should look into it. Reporting - if anything - on the site would make things a lot easier for us, it's never a bother. It makes a special notification that says "Hey! I think you mods need to see this bullshit over here." Reports that aren't actionable get dismissed and those that are actionable are always - by policy - acted on. With having such limited resources in the staffing department; having more eyes on the stuff and having people report things to us, actually does genuinely help.

Ah, yes! You are actually correct about this. I was fixated on Section 12: Member Conduct: "Do not multi-post (the act of posting one after the other in a topic, for example; posting in a topic when you were the last to reply) within the main discussion forums." And I was focused on "Posts" or rather "Comments" that say "BUMP" and misinterpreted what you were saying. My bad. But no; you're absolutely correct Section 17 - Paragraph 2 (Private Roleplays): So as for "Bumping" their own Private Roleplay Bulletin (So just that one bulletin): There are no rules against this... Although arguably, their probably should be. When I've seen these "BUMP" posts they're usually spaced out days if not weeks after each other. However spamming multiple private roleplay bulletins... Yeah-no. There are rules against that. But then what is "Quick Succession" to some people they might consider seconds. Some people might consider minutes. Hours. Days... We should probably look at making that more clear (We mean within an hour, which covers minutes and seconds too). I would suggest that if you see bulletin's popping up in a quick succession "As in multiple in the same thing in the space of an hour" please 'Report' these, and we'll sort that out, and advise the Dreamer in question that this is not acceptable under those Terms of Service. @Neptune is the person who focuses on this section of the site the most as I do more of the programming/backend stuff. So I'm going to tag her into this, and read over it. There is a chance I am misinterpreting things again, and she can obviously propose any changes needed to be made to the Terms of Service that can be voted on by the entire staff, before we can change anything. Thank you for bringing this to our attention though. If people are spamming multiple bulletins like this, this needs to be stopped.

Custom tags would be extremely tricky, yes, for a myriad of reasons. Making a search that searches for it, might actually be the easier part. But making it properly functional... I'm not sure about that. Ideas are good. I especially want feed back from people who have to use this system daily, so we can work out how to make it better. If not under IPS then under the bespoke solution.

I can confirm with absolute certainty that for the bespoke software we're working on it will be much better in this regard. I would have to agree that the current implementation on this site isn't perfect. We knew this back in 2015 when we introduced it, and it's way more obvious now than it was back then. I can only agree with this sentiment.

I sincerely apologise once again for the late response. Every topic within the Roleplayer Preferences and Private Roleplays area. Thing is you should only have one Roleplayer Preferences sheet, which you can link to your profile for ease-of-access. The Private Roleplayers thing is something you can link to in your About Me page for example. I'm also not sure what you mean by "Terms of Service violating" As far as I am aware there is no Terms of Service violation going on here what-so-ever as the sections aren't covered under the "double posting" rule, which I believe applies only to the forums. Bespoke - meaning completely custom. I am working with another roleplaying community in making a piece of web-software that is actually designed to do what we're trying to do here. Currently we use IPS (Invision Power Suite) which is fantastic community driven software, but we need to heavily customise it to suit our purposes. Up until around 2018-2019, this served us well. But we're starting to run into severe limitations that are imposed by the core of this software and we can't customise it any further to allow for the functionality that our Dreamers both need and deserve. The software is currently in active development right now and is in the Alpha stage. We have a roadmap of sorts and are currently working on the features. Thank you for understanding, however you shouldn't need to wait several months for answers to simple questions. That is a failure on my part, and I can only apologise; again, for this error.

This is something I'd really love to implement! In theory it should already be doable with minimal effort as the preferences suite has a built in filter already. Unfortunately it doesn't filter by these things at the moment and when I last looked into it; it took filters too literally, if I remember correctly. So what I mean is; for example. If you were to use the filter for things like "Group Sex", "Pregnancy" it would only pull up records where people have only selected "Group Sex" and "Pregnancy", if someone had "Group Sex", "Pregnancy", "Anal", "Drugs" it wouldn't show those. However since the implementation in 2015; there might have been core changes in IPS that makes the search less literal. So I absolutely will look into it. If, however, it's not possible. It is certainly something that will be possible in the bespoke software that is currently in development to replace Invision Power Suite (IPS) as the main software behind EcchiDreams. What I mean is; we're making a custom website, coded completely from scratch. Right now we use IPS and it's well designed software however we heavily customise it for our needs and we're starting to hit the ceiling of what is and isn't doable under the current software, which is why we're custom making our own. It's currently in Alpha, but it's not really anywhere near ready for primetime use and has a lot less features than EcchiDreams right now. But it is in active development.

Thank you for applying your voice for this suggestion. It's one I'd love to implement. Unfortunately it isn't possible due to software limitations; and I know it sucks harder than a Dyson Vacuum Cleaner. I absolutely agree with that fact, 100%. I have told Invision about this multiple times because it makes absolute no sense that ignored content appears in the activity feed. I think you might be able to customise the feed to remove content from specific users; but I'm not sure if that is still a thing or if IPS decided to do away wit that as well. I'm still working on a bespoke solution that will one day, hopefully completely replace the software that EcchiDreams runs on, and this is at the forefront of our minds when it comes to user blocking, we'll be baking that into the code from the offset, once the feature becomes available. If I do find a way of doing it for IPS; I will implement it immediately and update this topic. Currently this software is in Alpha Stage testing, and is a long way off until completion; but it is in active development.

Topic closed by OP's request.

And if you had read the Terms of Service (Section 9 and Section 21), taken heed of the multiple warnings on the registration page and the notice when you deactivated your original account... You would have known that this was a really, really bad move. You should have reactivated your old account, and you still can. However... Topic locked and your duplicate account is now banned.

I have taken a look into this, however realistically outside of manual moderation there's nothing automatic that I can do about this. The reason being is that IPS is rather limited in it's scope and we're not exactly using the feature in the way it was designed for. Something I hope to fix with our bespoke application. That said I can mitigate this; make it worthless to "Bump" the topic. Have the topics displayed in record creation order rather than update with new comments, thus posting "Bump" will do nothing. Sorry for the late response too.

Gourmet with Soda; any day of the week. Gas Gas Gas or Deja Vu?

I know, right? And sleep... Just woke up. Need coffee.

Alright. You've both made some convincing points. I will certainly think about it, but I'm not going to make any promises. I will discuss it with @Neptune who usually deals with these sections as well.

Hmm. For some reason it seems to have vanished off of the menu, for now you can use: https://ecchidreams.com/settings/pokes/ to disable/enable it.

There should be a poke button on people's profile. You can also do it through your poke's dashboard: https://ecchidreams.com/pokes where you can respond to people who've already poked you, or set off new pokes by pressing/tapping on the "Poke Member" button (Although that should read "Poke Dreamer"). If your poke system is disabled, you will need to re-enable it via the account settings. For more information please check out the guide:

It will show as unavailable if you don't have enough to pay for it, otherwise it'll be available. This is proven by those that have used it and are now Gold or Platinum Dreamers. As for will there be more than "Gold" and "Platinum"? The answer is a firm: No, we have no plans on introducing new tiers at this time. If our new platform has it or not, is - at this time unknown and too early to say.

I'm not sure about this. This seems to me like it is something that you can add into the more details area. As the presigned menus in there are for the actual roleplaying itself. Otherwise we'll be getting to the point where we're going to start breaking down everything like this, like Adult Baby: Do you like to be the mummy, daddy or the baby -- for example. I will have a think about going into more details for the new platform/framework we're working on. But generally speaking right now; you can easily use the description area to write in more details about your preferences. Thank you for the suggestion. Take care and kind regards.

This isn't currently possible under the current IPS Framework, but I will add it as a suggestion for the framework that we're developing. Also, apologies for the very late response.

Section 69, Paragraph 420 of the Terms of Service.

Thank you, everyone who took part in this. I'd say the community's wishes on this subject matter is clear as the difference between night and day. As I stated here: There won't be any policy changes today, or in the foreseeable future, but I will be keeping this in mind, going forwards.