Hello! Apologies for wearing my moderator hat, but things have happened that made me feel the need to amend the rules a bit. Starting from now, there is a new rule for Horny Furry Chat:
No content that glorifies or normalizes sexual acts with minors or non-furry animals, even in a fictional context. “Non-furry animal” is defined as any animal that that lacks human-like intelligence and thus cannot consent.
Update: While the statement about consent is indeed true, it did not add anything except ambiguity to the rule itself.
Update 2: Just some more clarifications:
- No content that glorifies or normalizes sexual acts with minors or non-furry animals, even in a fictional context. “Non-furry” animals are those that are visually and behaviourally similar to real life animals and lack human level reasoning.
While I understand an argument could be made that fictional depictions of acts “cannot hurt people”, that’s a sentiment I’m weary of allowing in a space like this.
I’ve also tried to word things in a way that does not exclude discussions about ferals, or roleplaying as ferals. However, that’s not a group I’m too involved in, so I’d appreciate feedback if I’ve missed the mark there.
Of course, yiffit.net instance rules supersede rules for this community. If instance rules change or are clarified in a way that makes this rule redundant, I’ll just remove it and probably just delete/close this thread.
Anyway, I’d appreciate people’s thoughts on the matter; I can always revert or change the rules later. I also locked the community last night before going to bed “just in case”, but it is now unlocked again.
Update as well: By the way, it’s not my intention to enforce these rules with an iron fist, I’m just trying to figure out a way to keep unsavory comments out whilst still allowing a wide range of conversation topics.
Hey, I just wanted to say that as owner of the community you are fully allowed to do this. I mention this, because it might not be obvious since Yiffit is relatively new and also because there’s other lemmy instances where admins keep (in my opinion unnecessary) tight control over the communities that are created on the instance. This is not the case for Yiffit where the idea is that you can run a community with your own moderation style and preferences.
The overarching instance-wide rules mention that users and communities not be used for vigilantism, harassment, call-outs, etc… (like Kiwifarms or similar behavior) because that is a huge can of worms and it detracts from the constructive and positive content that this instance is focused on. But this is not the case of the rule change you’ve made.
Likewise, to give you an example, you could even restrict things like ferals. It wouldn’t make me happy on a personal level, but it would be fair and within your rights. All this is to say that I try to keep things fair, while giving people the option to moderate their communities with their own vision.
Regarding yesterday’s discussion thread I still have to make a post. I hurt my eye yesterday and have trouble seeing and need to take frequent breaks. But it should come later today when I find some time.
Thanks, and I appreciate you going for that “hands off” approach.
My comments about the instance rules were more for if you made a post which basically put a ban on this stuff instance wide, in which case repeating it in my community would be redundant.
Also, having to deal with the federation issue and now this whilst also taking care of yourself sounds rough. I know you get this a lot, but we really appreciate the work you put into this place, and I hope things calm down soon.