Maybe a suggestion but would it be viable/difficult to add a CGI section, the free category is so full of cartoons etc, maybe have their own category? with a sub of free or paid?
just a thought as i scroll through dozens of hentai cgi anime etc 
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There is a cgi tag to filter with.
https://discuss.eroscripts.com/tags/c/scripts/free-scripts/14/cgi
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You can also just search with the tags cgi , animated , animation , anime and you should get the same results.
Also if the staff did it for CGI then what stops people from demanding catagories for more popular things than CGI? Nothing as it would be unfair, but the staff are short handed as is so they won’t do it it to prevent moderation of stuff that gets put into the wrong category.
Upscale/FPS increase request topic , Video resolution mega poll and recommended multi-axis script along with single-axis script which is a Fap Hero.
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Eh, well think about solutions to a problem, before making up dumb reasons to say no. There is a clear need for at least the cgi channel.
How about, set discourse to require all posts to have tags, then set the CGI channel to require a CGI tag and NON-CGI to require NON-CGI tag.
If a user put a CGI tag on a post but is trying to post in a non CGI channel it just doesnt let them post.
This automates channel content organization to a very large degree. Allowing an extra layer of programmatic control without needing human intervention. (There will of course always be some requirement for oversight. But i’d argue this would eliminate more work than it creates. It just doesnt eliminate all work.)
Let’s start by turning the question around. What’s so wrong with the cgi tag that it requires introducing a new category especially for cgi? Using a filter on cgi in the free script category should do the same and it is already there.
Edit: moved the thread to the site feedback category.
For the category suggestion, how would one organize topics with both IRL and CGI content? Duplicate posts?
I do see the issue with the current structure where users need to figure out how to mute tags and how to browse topics with tags excluded. It’d be a cleaner browsing and discovery experience to separate these types of content, considering their difference in nature.
If you don’t want to see certain tags in the feed, there’s a function for that.
Click on your profile button in the upper right corner of Eroscripts, click the profile button at the bottom of the menu, click preferences, click tracking, in the bottom right hand corner there is a section for muted. Add whatever tags you don’t want to see here.
I personally don’t want things separated, I like going into free scripts and I’ve muted tags for the type of content I know I won’t click on. Everyone has their preferences and this is the way to make your feed not show what you aren’t interested in.
If someone wants to search for specific tags, the search function performs that task well too.
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The issue with the search function are twofold:
The search results do not show topic previews (thumbnails).
It is not made clear how to find content excluding tags (by using -tags:animation,cgi) so a lot of users are not aware that it’s an option.
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Well, strict categories work if they are entirely unique without any overlap with others. But with porn this is almost never the case. If we only just consider those 4 example tags, there are already many conflicts in them:
Anime is a certain art style, it can be drawn in 2d and even in 3d. Some characters can even be made in to very detailed CGI models.
Animated is too generic, it again can include 2d, 3d and cgi. And animation is just a synonym in this case, as any animation, since the project is effectively done is animated.
cgi is a term that is often misused. Any video made with cgi isnt cgi. cgi is an interface for computer graphics, and its result is just graphics. And this is a very broad thing as even if you just place a hud on a porn video, that is already cgi.
cgi is most often used for 3d content in porn contexts, but even here, since vr cgi has been used for a lot of things to improve it here, you cannot use it as a category.
To get categories to work, they must be dynamic themselve. Instead of making it a strict group, have categories being a collection of tags, both including and excluding tags as a property. 2d can for example include animated, animation and anime as tags under it, but exclude the tags cgi, 3d, vr.
This way you can have a lot of categories which essentialy just behave like a quicksearch with some common and popular selections.
This is what most porn sites already do anyway. Hardcore and blowjobs are both a seperate category, yet a video can be part of both equaly.
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Well the issue has nothing to do with seeing one or the other, sure tags can be blocked. Thats a solution if you dont want to see a topic of a specific type.
The issue is when you dont want to block either of them. There have been many occasions where a large string of one type will drown out the other. So new posts that someone may be interested in, are seen far less and get far less attention.
I have no problem minimizing the work for admins, im all for it. And I havent really noticed any other channels be requested. I think there may be a lot of people like me who do want to see both categories but feel that sometimes posts get missed because of such a broad category system.
This small change to adding categories would also be ideal for creators as it helps get more eyes on their post.
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very valid reasons for leaving and or potential changes, streamlining etc. never meant this to cause unrest or complain, i was basically thinking out loud.
thanks all.
No worries. Discussions like this are good! Without them the community can’t evolve
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This subject did rise several times, which already indicates it isnt optimal, but as the site is still evolving its only waiting until a proper solution is found.
Just like people not searching and reposting content. in many cases its because the old thread just couldnt be found using the terms the poster used. It might seem simple to avoid it, but pacticaly it rarely is.
CGI for example not being a proper term at all doesnt mean it cant be used. Its a very common misused term, but its very consistent in what its meaning is when its misused. So much that for a tag it does the job it has to do (as the real meaning on CGI is meaningless in a porn context, and people dont know what CG means because they have seen the media use CGI far too often).
You normaly work around these issues, and often the solutions are very limited in its effect. But for that, each time this thread shows up (as long as the gap between them is long enough), it is an opportunity to discover some idea that can fix it.
So on that, dont think you did post something useless. You didnt (the gap between the previous complaint has been a while again).
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