Guidelines somewhere in the site rules on multiple scripts for the same video would do that and it’s minimal work for you.
Set it up, let users self-regulate, but encourage people to make free versions if a paid script exists. Popular videos naturally get more attention anyway so they’d get more free script options. That would solve the frustration of having really popular videos essentially being locked behind paywalls because paid scripters got to it first.
Makes them script I thought. Even offered help.
I dont think that will help you keep the free scripters in the park. But maybe there are just a few like me who dont want the money, the transfer and the groupie Patreon stuff.
In theory it sounds good but in practice all that’s going to do is just flood the site with ai generated slop scripts and drown out the users that actually want to share scripts made with effort. At least that’s what I think.
Then simply exclude ai scripts from that.
I think that is already kinda implied per say in between the lines, to me personally and from what i have seen from other scripters, it’s not because “it’s taboo” to do scripts that were already done but more on the sense of it being a bit redundant because you could instead spend your time working on something that has no script at all.
Multiple people already did and do content that has been scripted before, myself included, for a variety of reasons, shouting out on your post the other existing versions already shows respect in that regard, people have different tastes and different scripts fills up that need, if there was more feedback on existing scripts from users in the sense of for example “This is too intense / I would have prefer a (action based / audio based) version of this… and so on”, this would show there is people seeking for a different version of said script and in my opinion the lack of these be it in quality or preference ends up in a mindset of “the script is already done, nobody said nothing about it so i assume it’s ok, let me work on something new” type of mindset.
So yeah there is a bit of caveats in that sense, but for users to regulate, there is first a prerequisite of engagement that, as already mentioned by multiple people above, nowadays is rare.
If the users start spam posting AI, the forum does not have the tools or manpower to do this, which would render the entire system useless and worst case scenario, making the forum barely usable as well due to extreme spam. and many other problems.
I don’t believe that’d solve the problem, it would create more. It would just create more users using AI to generate then editing just enough to pass then post it without the tag just so they could get to the paid scripts.
I’m sure something can be done I wouldn’t throw out the idea
You’d need a one-sided solution to making users WANT to script for free.
I’m imagining something like tiered site awards for free scripters, but the problem then would be AI scripters spamming their way to the top, which would further kill motivation and also flood the category with 
For people who can’t or don’t want to pay or subscribe to patreon, a paywalled script might as well not exist. So making a free version isn’t redundant effort, it’s the only option they get.
And I’m confused about how to do it respectfully. Acknowledging a paid script while posting mine free looks like I’m saying skip the paid one. That alone is enough reason to have actual guidelines instead of everyone wondering how to handle it. A proper tag signalling there’s a paid version or something, a single new line in the rules saying it’s okay, just something to encourage people to make free versions of paid scripts.
Hummm… that’s true, it can be taken that way as well, i was being naive, my bad
I also never thought of it this way. My philosophy is if you are going post a free script while a paid one is available the least one could do is spread awareness that a paid alternative is out there therefore directing some traffic their way.
I think paid scripters are aware they are competing with free and there should be a reasonable expectation that a scene they script paid will eventually have a free version especially if it’s popular.
That being said, I don’t go out of my way to script paid scenes however given enough time I might. I also don’t think anyone posting a free script of something already paid is being malicious.
Just a quick clarification: Faptap itself is a free platform. We don’t have a subscription for watching content.
The only subscription we offer is for FaptapAI, our funscript generator. That’s completely optional. The video library itself is free to browse and watch.
Completely agree, i’ve done a couple ones with paid alternates. I’m not trying to step on anyones toes, but if I see a scene I want scripted for my own library, i’m not gonna avoid it because someone else released a paid version. I just credit other posts I could find to let people know there are alternative options for them.
The only time i’d avoid scripting a video is if it already has good multi-axis scripts created, but that’s because i’d probably just buy the scripts instead of doing it myself to save time.
I personally don’t see it as disrespectful to make a free version of a paid script as long as it’s not just theft.
Just today @EvelynEvil666 released a paid version of a script I already got for free. I considered the heatmaps and though I thought the free one was better, if the conclusion was different I absolutely would have bought it.
I haven’t posted anything on this site for a while, but as a purely free user, I have never even looked at the paid section. Asking me to check if there is a paid script and then advertise it while I post my free one just seems like another barrier that makes me not want to.
We are not saying it as a “you have to do it”, it’s more like a personal preference to acknowledge each other’s work in the community, that’s all, at the end of the day, be it paid or free, it’s works that people put time into it and provide to the community, so i think it’s just cool to acknowledge the effort, and it’s entirely up to you as well, you don’t have to do that if you don’t want to. 
I don’t know… acknowledging someone who’s selling their scripts to the community just feels weird lol. They’re already being acknowledged with payment.
Free scripters are doing the work and giving them away for literally no acknowledgement because you know there would be no post in the paid section referring to the free one.
I probably just have rose tinted glasses from the old ero-scripts days but it in a thread about free scripts dying, adding “optional” barriers seems like it should be the last thing being considered.
I would definitely link to existing free script(s) if I released a paid one for the same media for whatever reason.
Also, pretty sure I’ve seen paid topics do this (IIRC paid multi-axis topics linking to existing free single axis topics) even if it’s quite rare.
The question to answer is really if a free scripter should be paywalled on the site as it is right now.