Dear anyone who pops into /tg/ from time to time to clean the queue,Until moot or a moderator makes a public announcement regarding ERP threads, do not delete them unless there are more than one. By long-standing 4chan tradition, text is never considered NWS. A small but vocal group really does not like them and attempts to backseat moderate them by spamming the threads. Please do not enable these individuals. I don't personally think ERP threads should be on /tg/ (they fit better on /soc/), but I really do not like backseat janitoring.Viral is a valued contributor to /tg/. Please do not delete his kickstarter threads or ban him, as he's definitely in the top 1% for contributing OC to /tg/ (http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Category:Viral_Games). As another note, kickstarter threads have been allowed by dint of /tg/ being focused on a niche hobby. Unlike video games or anime, it's impossible to play /tg/ stuff without monetary investment. Magic and Warhammer are notoriously expensive, board games cost money, and print books are always preferable to PDFs. The community in general likes seeing new releases. Unless a moderator notices that the thread is being samefagged, it's usually best to leave kickstarter threads be.
I think this highlights how important it is that a janitor be well-versed in the nuances of their assigned board.That said, if you live inside the bubble of your board's culture for too long, you can grow soft. It's a tough balance to strike.
Umm, I don't know what tradition you're talking about, but sex fanfictions and ERP do not belong on worksafe boards.
The official stance on that is a bit unclear, probably owing to it never being enforced. I can start purging the threads, but an announcement should be made by a staff member either in the current /q/ thread (https://boards.4chan.org/q/res/545290) or on /tg/ itself.
Well, it's all ogre now. A little over a year later, these threads are history.On some level, it feels kind of bad to appease that one guy who has been in every single ERPG to complain about it, but on the other hand, I requested this be done because having threads like ERPG gives the impression that /tg/ is somehow a good place to talk about fucking dragons or to solicit sexual encounters. Sometimes, enough is enough. Hiding your problems doesn't get rid of them. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned from this -- maybe it's a lesson everyone else already knew.At any rate, /soc/ is where they seem to have set up camp for now, and I encourage the /soc/ janitors to delete meta discussion. Meta discussion isn't on-topic in either /soc/ or /tg/. Sorry you had to get saddled with this.There's also the issue of the Weekend Smut Threads still being around, and I'm not sure what to do with them. They are, roughly speaking, threads where users request sexual-themed stories or images, and others provide these stories and images, usually hosted off-site (like on Pastebin or Imgur). I've been allowing these so far: my reasoning is the same as allowing drawthreads.
>>3990I do not think they are necessarily on topic. However, a lot of the content in them is more or less board related (/tg/ has writing stories about sex in 40k forever), especially as compared to ERP generals (which were literally just F-List hookup threads). I wish they were less general-like but we all know how troublesome it is to deal with that problem. Maybe even more so here, because they're not daily, but exist mostly on the weekends. I don't particularly like them, but at the same time I'm perfectly fine with withholding judgement on them. I would however watch them for meta discussion - I'm sure some users associate the smut threads with the ERP threads.
