Suggested Forum Guidelines

[vincent_richter]

This is an acknowledgment of the guidelines apparently governing the forums.
With a modicum of respect and knowledge, they should maintain a clear focus while encouraging contributions to the site's goal.

Rule #1: The name of the site is The Process.
Only post content or discussions pertaining to the process of female body modification in the main areas. The only exceptions made are for currently-impossible feats: breasts the size of skyscrapers, women the size of ants, and any form of catgirl. BBW, big boob entertainers, cross-dressing, and diaper / baby fetishes are expressly prohibited.

Rule #2: Female process... with some exceptions.
This site is dedicated primarily to the modification of the female form, with two notable exceptions:
1. Transgender, which has the subject as a woman at some point in time; and
2. Everything Else, which hosts any other male body modification.

Rule #3: Appreciate? Reciprocate!
Advertisers, this one is non-optional: if you're going to post links to your store here, be kind and post a link back to the forums in your store. Otherwise, please don't link to your store. A simple text link takes five minutes, and is all we ask for promoting your content.

Some additional rules may apply to subsections; please read the appropriate stickied threads before attempting to post there.

Hopefully these simple recommendations will make The Process a bright, enjoyable place for everyone to enjoy!
Welcome aboard, and please, enjoy your stay.

[BillPratt]

Are you serious?

[vincent_richter]

Originally Posted by BillPratt

Are you serious?

Absolutely 100%.
Every single one of these guidelines has been enforced without public acknowledgment or discussion.
Does it not better serve the public to be transparent about what is and is not acceptable behavior?
If you don't mind me asking, what part of this concept do you find disagreeable?

[OhZone]

Who says? haha

[vincent_richter]

Originally Posted by OhZone

Who says? haha

I'd like to take this time to point out that the golden apples are highly subjective and contribute to unrestricted anarchy.

[OhZone]

o_O Why, yes. Yes, the are!

And I think this is good! ha

[BillPratt]

Wondering how seriously I should take an idiot with a Mickey Hitler avatar. If you're who's running this site, I don't have much of a place, need, or desire to be here. If you aren't in charge, then you're a bigger fool than is painted by your avatar.

[vincent_richter]

Originally Posted by BillPratt

Wondering how seriously I should take an idiot with a Mickey Hitler avatar. If you're who's running this site, I don't have much of a place, need, or desire to be here. If you aren't in charge, then you're a bigger fool than is painted by your avatar.

You've read the threads and know why I have that avatar. As soon as Buena Vista stops screwing its employees and the general public by dumping them into welfare, and I stop being a lazy arse, it'll change. Until that time, the opinion of me of a four-month newbie matters about as much as a fart in the wind. You know the score, and if you've no desire to change the status quo for the better, you can piss right off. At least Oz is trying to be funny.

[Blake Isaac Gordon]

Originally Posted by vincent_richter

You've read the threads and know why I have that avatar. As soon as Buena Vista stops screwing its employees and the general public by dumping them into welfare, and I stop being a lazy arse, it'll change. Until that time, the opinion of me of a four-month newbie matters about as much as a fart in the wind. You know the score, and if you've no desire to change the status quo for the better, you can piss right off. At least Oz is trying to be funny.

Man... I was going to post on this thread, decided not to, and now I'm going to.

1st... This is BillPratt, a very good BE fiction writer of some very long outstanding history/pedigree (aka he's good and he's won some story contests.) I'm not saying people should fall to their knees and kiss his sitter every time he posts (kinda like people do when BA posts...) but you should consider this at least when you call him a 4 mo-newbie.
2nd... Mr. V your avatar is very polarizing. I (think) am in complete understanding of your freedom to chose such an avatar, and I think I understand your source of frustration for choosing such an avatar, but just as a means of 'letting you know what trouble it might cause...' be careful. When I fist saw your avatar I winced, and I kept me from wanting to actively participating in any posts.

This post rules make me uncomfortable. Why:
Rule 2: Why does it have to be about females only? This place has a reputation (which I do not understand fully as of yet) of being 'bad' I've seen a few posts on other forums saying stay away from the Process-Forums. Why, I have no idea. In the past I have thought this place was nice. I enjoyed some of the threads and when Thought Bubble 6 was posted at the Process Store I said cool, let me buy some of that. Yet if these forums only focus on female transformations wouldn't only guys show up?

Rule 3 makes little sense to me. What happens if I have some work on Smashwords and all I want to do is put a link in my signature directing the curious types to my work. Is that now forbidden?

Please do not see this a morphing into a 'troll' or worse into a full out PAB, but this is one of the few active BE forums left that are not associated with Bearchives. The TOB forums are a spam wasteland and I have yet find any other place that even remotely talks about writing BE fiction that's not "I wrote another chapter to my epic BE story on my DA account, please tell me what you think..."

I guess I am super, super naive... This whole Female Transformation Fetish gig falls under the sphere of sexual objectification, which I guess is most male eccentric erotica. But I was hoping this place would be more "we all are different and weird, lets all swap some stories and be a place of 0% judgment so people feel comfortable in speaking out."

I hope this makes a bit of sense.

[Snowglare]

I'm so glad I can't see avatars. So much nicer without them. Now that I know it's there, I feel compelled to say something.

I hate Disney about as much as anyone in the world, but I ask you to please not do that. The only time it's acceptable to compare someone to Hitler or the Nazi Party is when they have engaged in literal mass genocide. Using lazy shorthand to exaggerate your opponent's flaws does nothing to further your cause. It only serves to put in perspective how relatively minor Disney's sins are.

Originally Posted by Blake Isaac Gordon

1st... This is BillPratt, a very good BE fiction writer of some very long outstanding history/pedigree (aka he's good and he's won some story contests.) I'm not saying people should fall to their knees and kiss his sitter every time he posts

I think Mr. Pratt would like it if we all fell to our knees and kissed our sisters every time he posted.

Originally Posted by Blake Isaac Gordon

Rule 2: Why does it have to be about females only? This place has a reputation (which I do not understand fully as of yet) of being 'bad' I've seen a few posts on other forums saying stay away from the Process-Forums. Why, I have no idea. In the past I have thought this place was nice.

I can only guess. Forums never seem as bad to me as their reputations indicate. The combination of being on the inside, not reading every thread, and the fact that most comments outside any forum come from banned users makes it hard to judge the true atmosphere. I suspect it's one of two reasons: because we have rules, we have a focus you don't see on Transfur and other sites that let you slap up any old thing vaguely related to why people come here in the first place, and because some of our members are dicks. There was a lot more dickery in the past, as far as I've seen. Once some of our more infamous members moved on, it got a whole lot mellower. I know I like coming here now more than I did then.

Originally Posted by Blake Isaac Gordon

But I was hoping this place would be more "we all are different and weird, lets all swap some stories and be a place of 0% judgment so people feel comfortable in speaking out."

I like judging. Judging is good, in moderation. More than 0, less than 100. You have to do it the right way, and you have to keep doing it. Comfort should also come in moderation.

[Katsumend]

Originally Posted by Blake Isaac Gordon

I guess I am super, super naive... This whole Female Transformation Fetish gig falls under the sphere of sexual objectification, which I guess is most male eccentric erotica. But I was hoping this place would be more "we all are different and weird, lets all swap some stories and be a place of 0% judgment so people feel comfortable in speaking out."

I hope this makes a bit of sense.

I really think it's just the history of this place. Lorekeep (all due respect) was/is a very opinionated individual who was a hands-off moderator. So as a result I feel like it just became normal around here for a newbie to post and then get like 5 responses, "THIS ISN'T NEW, NOT ENOUGH PROCESS, WRONG SECTION, I CAN'T FAP TO THIS" That's not a nice atmosphere. So I wish for the same thing you do as far as tolerance and what-not, but it's never been that way as far back as I remember.

[OhZone]

Oh, but he isn't. I think he's just trying to be helpful.