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Amendment to Rule 17 in regards to sexual advertisements


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I wish to preface this by saying that I am under-aged. I've been role playing for the past 5 years and I've enjoyed every bit of it. It's definitely a hobby of mine and probably one of my favorite ones. Just because somebody is under-aged does not mean they should not be able to play and enjoy this game, or have to feel uncomfortable whilst playing it.

 

One thing that makes me and many other people in my age range, and outside of it too, very uncomfortable are the ads in reference to pornographic companies, sex stores, and all from that nature. You could say you can just toggle your ads, but that does not just stop those ads from being displayed to me, it's all ads, which limits mine and many other peoples role play opportunities. I, as an under-aged individual do not want to see advertisements talking about big booty'd girls and dragon dildos on sale every so often. It makes many people, not just myself, heavily uncomfortable.

 

Therefore, I am proposing that Rule 17 is amended to cover pornographic studios looking for new actors/actresses, advertising their content, and the same with sex stores advertising their stores. This also ties in with realism that you will most likely not hear about a local sex store opening over the radio, TV, or on a billboard where most advertisements are viewed from as they are mostly "taboo" establishments.

 

 

In addition, I've seen administrators not fulfill their duties when enforcing Rule 17 in general, I've noticed a large influx of "personal" advertisements, specifically ones in regards to men and women wanting to work in the pornographic industry. Again, I understand this is against the rules, but game admins should strive in attempt to enforce this rule a little more as I've personally noticed it being slipped away.

 

Many thanks.

 

EDIT: After reading some of the replies I believe it would be best adding a NSFW section in /ads that people can post ads in. By default they will not show up in the bottom right of your screen, you'll have to manually enable to view it. Alternatively, you can just click on the section and view all the NSFW ads that would be shown there, so like the sex store ads, strip clubs, porn companies, and so on. /nsfwad to post in there.

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As underage perspective, yes, it's something annoying. But from the perspective of the business owner, he/she relays a lot on that ad. What can we do is to add a filter to the AD system. Everytime you want to post an ad, a pop-up pops on your screen, asking if the post is NSFW. And you can select from the /ads system if you want to see the NSFW ads. 

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3 minutes ago, Levitate said:

As underage perspective, yes, it's something annoying. But from the perspective of the business owner, he/she relays a lot on that ad. What can we do is to add a filter to the AD system. Everytime you want to post an ad, a pop-up pops on your screen, asking if the post is NSFW. And you can select from the /ads system if you want to see the NSFW ads. 

That too could also work, perhaps give it its own section like compared to QuickDate and Facebrowser.

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Add a couple of new commands, /adnsfw for ads like that and /toggleadnsfw to turn them on and off, and everyone happy, but we all know how GTAW works and what is going to happen is that they are going to ban them entirely, law of least effort, to the easiest.

 

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I completely agree with you on this one. I really love to see some genuine advertisements being posted that interest me, but then there are a couple that are looking for escorts, dating or like the author even said, some big booty for their business - despise those. It should be either elevated and pushed into a different system, that would allow you to turn off those type of ads, or disallowed completely to be done in-game; could be advertised on the forums in the In-Character (IC) section. Haven't seen a single advertisement around my city that's looking for some porn stars and stuff. 

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I'd opt to agree. It's not realistic nor sensible for sexual advertisements to be shoved into players' faces alongside regular, mainstream advertisements (e.g. businesses, vehicles for sale, et al). They should be categorized/separated in the in-game advertisement system at the very least, and/or secluded into a forum section. Sexual roleplay is arguably a niche that players may choose to indulge themselves in, but it shouldn't be shoved into players' faces through mediums like sexual advertisements. 

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I'd rather there just be a mature tag when attempting to first look at ads. As for what there is IRL.... Actually, yes sex shops do advertise on the radio... However, they don't outright say they have dragon dildos. They use tact. With that being said, I'd rather minors just not be on the server altogether but that's just me. The rulebook shouldn't be catering to people that shouldn't be there to begin with. The ads should just get altered because a lot of the ads are unrealistic.

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