[quote=Jorick]
This idea has been proposed in the past, and it was shot down by mods and admins and normal users alike.The main reason for this is that if there were any kind of mature section of the site that would almost certainly get Adsense removed, and when the ads are removed that means Mahz has to pay for server upkeep out of pocket or the site goes down due to lack of funds (which happened at the end of last year). The alternative would be to turn to more sleazy ads for porn sites and such, which would be rather bad for a site that has lots of minors.The presence of minors is another reason why this is a bad idea. There are tons of them around, and we all know that no matter how you try to bar access from them, they'll get through the blockades to get at the smut. Having minors reading smut on this website could make for some bad times, such as angry parents suing Mahz or criminal charges being filed against him for allowing it to happen. That whole legal mess is a large part of why smut is not allowed on the site and is a ban-worthy offense.And to round it out with a third reason, making a designated smut zone would be encouraging that activity on the site. It would draw more people looking for 18+ roleplaying to the site, which would inevitably bleed out into other parts of the forum and cause issues. There are already tons of forums out there for people who want to go write RP sex with other people, forums that exist solely for that purpose in fact, so there's really no reason to encourage it here.Oh, also, the reason why Mahz and the moderation staff turns a blind eye to things in 1x1 that are clearly angled at mature things but don't quite cross the line (like interest checks for smutty RP that will be held in PMs, or 1x1 RPs that move toward sex but then move to PMs until it's over) is because that is the happy medium that exists for this site. So long as nothing that Google's bots can see, meaning the stuff outside of PMs, contains objectionable content then the site keeps ads. So long as people just toe the line in public and take their smut to PMs, they don't get banned for violating the rules and endangering the ads. It's a good balance where the mods don't have to watch over 1x1 24/7 and people who want to RP smutty things can still do so. Also, Mahz has said before that a large part of his reason for allowing the smut-leaning interest checks is because there will always be people looking for RP sex on a roleplaying website, and if they couldn't make the interest checks then they'd be sending out tons of blind PMs and that could make for bad times, ie the minors and smut thing mentioned above.tl;dr it's a bad idea
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