Unspoken rules on this website...

[SimonDoom]

Perhaps I should have made it more clear that I wasn't referring to literal paperwork, just being tongue-in-cheek in an attempt at humor?

Fair enough. Humor can be hard to detect in online postings, and in a discussion like this one subtle shadings in meanings can result in very different interpretations.

 

[gunhilltrain]

Don't ask how sweeps work and don't look behind the curtain, because nobody sees the wizard, not no way, not no how.

Unlike the novel/movie version of the Wizard, on Lit, there is no distriction between the wizard you "see" and the person behind the curtain. There is only one entity, call it the Wizard of Literotica. And that entity truly offers only one option: take it or leave it. Or if you don't like how sweeps are done, too bad; "it" doesn't care. You are free to go elsewhere. The wizard only explains what it finds necessary for you to know.

 

[JaxRhapsody]

Unlike the novel/movie version of the Wizard, on Lit, there is no distriction between the wizard you "see" and the person behind the curtain. There is only one entity, call it the Wizard of Literotica. And that entity truly offers only one option: take it or leave it. Or if you don't like how sweeps are done, too bad; "it" doesn't care. You are free to go elsewhere. The wizard only explains what it finds necessary for you to know.

I mean... kinda what I was getting at, but funny.

 

[gunhilltrain]

I mean... kinda what I was getting at, but funny.

Remember, Literorica is an institution, a business. It's not as big as Amazon, Uber, Toyota or, to go really old school, the Union Pacific Railroad (created the 1860's). These are all self-interested, advancing their own agendas - until, like Sears, Eastern Airlines, Lehman Brothers, etc., they eventually fail and get merged into something else or just disappear.

And governments are even worse.

 

[Athalia]

There are no rules in the Political thread. That place is lawless

How true. General Board, too. The few times I visited those, I felt I needed a shower.

 

[Athalia]

B&D Bondage and Discipline
S&M Sadism and Masochism

alohaDave has it right, I think. The story I heard was that BDSM got all jumbled up into one category in the classified sections of some of the independent newspapers like Village Voice and the various free presses, and it stuck when the subjects got transferred to digital erotica.

The only thing I ever wrote on the subject was "The Path of Pain" which involved the MC torturing herself into an orgasm. She was sadist and masochist combined, so consent was never an issues, except during fleeting moments when she debated giving herself permission to continue.

I submitted it under the BDSM label but when it was published, Laurel had classified it as "Fetish." Oh, well.