Posted: 2002-10-24 03:24pm
Bullshit.
Says who?
Says who?
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I don't suppose there are any rules per se, though I'd recommend no rape or incest. That's... pushing it.Singuler Quartet wrote:So are there any actual rules(IE: No rape), or is it "The first person who crosses some undrawn line gets banned, while everyone else learns that poor fools lesson."
Obscenities are defined as things that violate the moral views of the community in which something is published/spoken/made accessible. In this case, it is the community of SD.net. I don't think that a majority of people will think much of anything, here, is inappropriate short of spamming the boards. Thus, I don't think that there are many rules as to what can and cannot be written and posted here, but of course that is subject to future polls and such. It is also important that the piece have "little" value in terms of art or literature. Thus, if there is a sex scene for absolutely no reason that is not well written, that may actually be considered inappropriate under Miller v. California, even if there is a much more graphic and morally questionable scene in another literary venture that is well written, or that breaks new ground in terms of story telling. Thus, the definition of something as an obscenity actually rests as much on how well it is written as it does on how graphic or inappropriate it at first appears.Crayz9000 wrote:I don't suppose there are any rules per se, though I'd recommend no rape or incest. That's... pushing it.Singuler Quartet wrote:So are there any actual rules(IE: No rape), or is it "The first person who crosses some undrawn line gets banned, while everyone else learns that poor fools lesson."
Well, what say we have a poll on it?Master of Ossus wrote:Thus, the definition of something as an obscenity actually rests as much on how well it is written as it does on how graphic or inappropriate it at first appears.
The poll could probably only be done AFTER the post was already up, unfortunately. We can't really draw any lines, because one of the primary requirements is that an obscenity cannot have serious literary/artistic value, so the story has to both suck AND violate our morale code of conduct.Crayz9000 wrote:Well, what say we have a poll on it?Master of Ossus wrote:Thus, the definition of something as an obscenity actually rests as much on how well it is written as it does on how graphic or inappropriate it at first appears.
*Imagines it* I can handle that, I can- *Thinks of Hutts*SirNitram wrote:Hrm, I'd have to clean up Hero Of The Empirep then, but I'd had no plans for posting it anyway...
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