Why so few stories?

[Losethem (imported)]

I have the germ of a story idea, but I'm going to need to think it through some more before I can properly write it. Has anyone heard from Atreyu69 recently?

As Paolo said, banned from the site. None of us take any pleasure in doing that to any user, but sometimes lines are crossed. He significantly crossed those lines.

[Valery_V (imported)]

He was banned from this site.

Is it possible to cancel punishment?

[Losethem (imported)]

Is it possible to cancel punishment?

In the case of the user mentioned here, no. There will be no re-instatement.

To be clear, banning is a last-resort tool here on the archive, and it takes a lot more than any moderator simply disliking you. In the case of the 3 people I've banned in the past 10 years, it was their insistence on discussing castrating children in reality, despite being warned not to do so. I wrote up a post last summer (2021) describing these issues and it offers insight about how not to get banned here.

(http://forums.eunuch.org/showthread.php ... post304998) It's not exhaustive but covers a significant portion of what can do it.

In my opinion writing about harming children is something a user cannot recover from.

[kwanmingmin (imported)]

I wrote stories involving minors but they are all fictional. I guess this is still acceptable in the EA.

[Paolo]

Stories for the Fiction Archive are fine.

Characters such as Simon Scott, Sander, or Sean O'Reilly (The Simon Series, San Carlos Island Series, Blue Creek novels) are not real people. They're words on a page like Harry Potter or Ender Wiggin.

Discussion of real children is not OK here on the forums, or written out in a Nonfiction article, unless it's historical fact.

For instance, an expanded dissertation on, say, the Italian Castrati with historical excerpts would be permissible.

[Losethem (imported)]

Stories for the Fiction Archive are fine.

Characters such as Simon Scott, Sander, or Sean O'Reilly (The Simon Series, San Carlos Island Series, Blue Creek novels) are not real people. They're words on a page like Harry Potter or Ender Wiggin.

Discussion of real children is not OK here on the forums, or written out in a Nonfiction article, unless it's historical fact.

For instance, an expanded dissertation on, say, the Italian Castrati with historical excerpts would be permissible.

Stories for the fiction archive are fine, but will be reviewed by two moderators before being posted, as I understand things at this point. So far I've not been asked to review any for content.

[boingboing (imported)]

In the case of the user mentioned here, no. There will be no re-instatement.

To be clear, banning is a last-resort tool here on the archive, and it takes a lot more than any moderator simply disliking you. In the case of the 3 people I've banned in the past 10 years, it was their insistence on discussing castrating children in reality, despite being warned not to do so. I wrote up a post last summer (2021) describing these issues and it offers insight about how not to get banned here.

(http://forums.eunuch.org/showthread.php ... post304998) It's not exhaustive but covers a significant portion of what can do it.

In my opinion writing about harming children is something a user cannot recover from.

I understand. It's rather sad though, since he wrote so many great stories.

[Losethem (imported)]

I understand. It's rather sad though, since he wrote so many great stories.

I'll just say his stories were not what got the ban put in place. He crossed a rather significant line to make the ban happen, a line I've only seen crossed here at EA twice in 20 years.

[Paolo]

As I was just telling bella via email, as he brought it up, most of what you're seeing posted now are salvaged and/or thought-lost stories from the old Archive. As the weather gets nicer, at least in the Northern Hemisphere, the new story posts always seem to slow down.