Controversial Tags
We have always been playing with fire regarding loli/shota and other controversial tags. It may not be outright ‘illegal’ but its lying to yourself if you don’t recognize how other people might see it. Shit’s sketchy and we know its towing the line on things and it may one day be an issue.
Adult content is currently going through. UK has incest simulation ban that will get creators arrested(RIP Ivywilde’s content probably), some states can’t access certain sites without age verification. Personally, I can’t access pornhub at all without a vpn.
F95 outright banned loli cause its a loaded issue and didn’t want to deal with it, but eroscript members came out and discussed the issue and fought for less censorship.
Personally, its not my cup of tea, but I was okay with less censorship here cause I was under the impression that we were at least safe from google searches because of the account requirement. Would maybe have to reopen this can of worms if we open up and those threads can’t be hidden.
RE:DMCA hawks.
You should still lock your doors even if someone can break the lock or a window. Doctors still say you should use condoms even if its ‘safe’.
Engagement
Requiring no account makes it go from theoretical reduced engagement from barriers of entry(just account and account+MFA) to no engagement. If people don’t need to have an account then they dont have the option to comment; We’d just have a viewcount and the download number next to the script goes up, neither of which would count towards engagement. Even before MFA, you needed an account and most users still didn’t participate.
For instance, a site like Pornhub didn’t require an account and has a lot of visitors but they barely have a user base, but they probably don’t care because they make money off ads, premium subs and partnerships. They don’t need a community, they have money.
We don’t really have that.
This is a hobby forum that only exists because people wanted to make scripts for strokers and some scripters make money off of that.
Eroscripts doesn’t make money off clicks. We don’t have a bunch of intrusive ads/popups like other adult sites. We don’t have a premium subscription. I think we had banners at the top of the screen for a few partnerships. At minimum, they earn from patrons but everyone can use the site regardless.
Eroscripts needs people posting scripts, answering questions, and commenting.
Metrics
Losing 25 users doesn’t mean anything without further information. 25 out of what? 25 out of 50 is a big loss, 25 out of 2000 less so. Were they active users or passive lurkers? 25 lurkers doesn’t actually affect any meaningful numbers given they count towards no engagement. But if it was 25 scripters, we’d have a big problem.
What would actually be good information is how many users we have, and then how many of those would be considered active participants and how many of those people left.
We did have an issue previously that caused many scripters to speak up on it because it affected functionality of the website. If the current issues were the same level of concern, I figure more of them would’ve spoken up about it.