storiesonline.net major changes - updated

[KiTA]

The update confirms what I thought this was -- zoomers have discovered moral panics and they get clout for participating in them, and are targeting sites for cancelation. They've come for storiesonline now.

Out in the ether, many art sites are experiencing the same thing, as are anime and manga forums and the like. It's absurd to the point that shows like Uzaki Wants to Hang Out, a comic book and cartoon about a supremely annoying extroverted college freshman with breasts the size of her head annoying her introvert classmate, was flagged as the same content by these types, because "she has big eyes that means she's child coded." It's laughable on it's face, but that doesn't stop hosting companies -- or their ISPs -- from capitulating the second they're threatened with "brand damage" (a fancy term for a bunch of losers on Twitter whining if they don't get their way).

I don't have a solution for this. Culture has become far more puritanical and almost diametrically opposed to the concept of free speech in the past 15 years, and it's not going to change anytime soon. These activists get asspats and attention for these moral crusades, be it fighting imaginary racism, sexism, or in this case, "problematic content." Long gone are the days of "don't like it, don't read it." We are now in the era of "I don't want to read this and I'll decide what you should be allowed to read, too."

The irony of this are the groups doing it are almost always, exclusively, grooming gangs in the strictest sense of the word. 30-40 year old activists pushing this panic onto 14-20 year olds via chat systems like Discord, where not only do they push each other into this fanatic activism under the guise of being a "good person" but also actively groom them into far darker things at the same time.

I don't have a solution for this. Ride it out and hope they move on to the next target to show what virtuous, pure of heart, saintly crusaders they are by charging at, and hope the Internet reverses course from this constant shrinking and capitulation, so these kinds of attacks become impossible.

[KiTA]

https://storiesonline.net/d/s1/t13288/relief

He actually posted this a little bit earlier today. It appears that they found new hosting.

[Baffle]

https://storiesonline.net/d/s1/t13288/relief

He actually posted this a little bit earlier today. It appears that they found new hosting.

does this mean theyre restoring their stories? ive somehow never heard of this place and i wonder if it has continuations of old stories from dreambook and yourwebapps board

[dublinjohn]

https://storiesonline.net/d/s1/t13288/relief

He actually posted this a little bit earlier today. It appears that they found new hosting.

does this mean theyre restoring their stories? ive somehow never heard of this place and i wonder if it has continuations of old stories from dreambook and yourwebapps board

I've had a premium membership there since December 2005, and it was a good few years old when I found it there, I actually followed the John Carter Universe there from ASSTR, checking some of the longer on site authors I follow there, some have stories first posted on the site as early as 1999.

[KiTA]

https://storiesonline.net/d/s1/t13288/relief

He actually posted this a little bit earlier today. It appears that they found new hosting.

does this mean theyre restoring their stories? ive somehow never heard of this place and i wonder if it has continuations of old stories from dreambook and yourwebapps board

I don't believe anything actually got removed. Some were hidden from public view but I believe they were all restored.

I highly suggest supporting storiesonline.net -- they're one of the last old internet fiction sites around, and the premium account isn't too expensive. Websites being targeted usually doesn't end with them fighting off the trolls going after their hosting once and everything is fine, this is usually an ongoing fight. The internet has gotten so much smaller in the past 15 years, and I suspect it's going to be continually crushed until it's in a nice, corporate friendly, cable TV shaped box, with all the edges rounded off and absolutely no chance anyone will use it to disrupt the status quo ever again.

[Baffle]

https://storiesonline.net/d/s1/t13288/relief

He actually posted this a little bit earlier today. It appears that they found new hosting.

does this mean theyre restoring their stories? ive somehow never heard of this place and i wonder if it has continuations of old stories from dreambook and yourwebapps board

I've had a premium membership there since December 2005, and it was a good few years old when I found it there, I actually followed the John Carter Universe there from ASSTR, checking some of the longer on site authors I follow there, some have stories first posted on the site as early as 1999.

Wild. I was using the old dreambook board back in 2007ish and that wasnt easy to find until I made some really specific advanced searches. I remember the experience project, some sites that posted embarrassing stories, random forum threads and literotica. Never ran into this place

[Billage2017]

Hi
Personally, I think age is a much abused way of one group trying to enforce its beliefs and values on everyone else. When age is only a number, and experiences, not prohibitions create maturity! Erotic stories should be able to reflect what happens in real life, in different cultures, and situations. As well as explore other possible realities.

However it's like the English putting table clothes to hide table legs because Victorians thought those legs were sexual arousing wicked people. That fad eventually changed and so will the current obsession with age.

As a teen I wanted to shout I am a person not an age or a number!! Things have grown and will continue to until people stop and say this has gone to far! Maybe Storiesonline.net could create its own hosting site, with other affected erotic story sites. Make this trend a business opportunity to make money. I have read of hosting sites that advertise that they do not censor adult material, porn, or anything else they are paid to hosts. Unless legal authorities knock on their door, with legal paperwork and proof of wrong doing. To keep the religious objector ans conformists censor bullies away.

Hiding what happens in life doesn't prevent it. Forcing in a closet creates more new crimes and black markets of even worse material, than it'll ever stop! Pre-stonewall, and in 1960 gay teens blackmailed gay adults into having sex. Because their peers would beat them to death if it was discovered they were gay! I know a classmate was given a drug overdose by he father because the 13 year old boy named Larry was caught in a gay situation.

That's what some people want to bring back. A Conform to their way of being or die mentality!!

[randomlygenerated]

Honestly, I wish this site adhered to an 18+ age rule. CP is gross and so are excuses for it. Even school stories can just be about 18 year olds. And I don't really care if they take it too far. That's a separate problem. Yeah, it's retarded to say that a picture 26 year old woman with small tits is CP, but but that doesn't mean this shit shouldn't be policed. I wish I didn't have to see it while looking for ENF stories, even in writing it is gross.

[Britguy]

Honestly, I wish this site adhered to an 18+ age rule. CP is gross and so are excuses for it... I wish I didn't have to see it while looking for ENF stories, even in writing it is gross.

With all due respect I completely disagree. That would spoil the site for a lot of people. This "I don't like it so it should be banned" attitude is what Billage is complaining about and I agree with him(?). There's plenty here that I don't like so I just ignore it.

And everything you said about CP can be said about ENF by those who would shut this whole site down if they could.

[KiTA]

It's always going to be a debate, and it's become more of one lately.

Without getting into political discussions, there's a growing group of people (who are not specifically aligned with any political group, technically) who are attempting to police online content they find unacceptable. Called "Antis", they started in the anime community harassing Japanese artists for drawing stuff they declared they weren't allowed to draw, and are slowly moving out from there. They can be traced back to a few Discord groups where people work together to "police" Twitter et all, often with mass reporting and the like, but the mindset has spread out especially with the zoomers.

I personally am not a huge fan of some of the younger content. I usually ignore that part of it or just skip it outright. But I can just keep going to the next story thread.

More importantly, I'm a fan of "magic" or hypnosis in my ENF content (and elsewhere) -- stuff like the Naked Penny comic, or Freewill 504, or our own "Suggestion Box" or "The New Smartwatch."

It's become increasingly hard to get some of this content online anymore, becuase Mastercard has declared unilaterally that it's verboten and the sites like Patreon, Amazon, even Pixiv Fanbox or DLSite, are being forced to obey.

We're 1 or 2 moral panics away from people declaring ENF content to be "non consent, which means rape, content" and demanding every online site -- Patreon, Kindle, forums, etc -- to remove ENF content or be removed. Heck, Patreon literally banned Non-Consent in NSFW content, requiring "active affirmative consent" in EROTIC STORIES starting in April of this year because Mastercard changed the rules on them.

This authoritarianism -- "I don't want to see this so no one should be able to" -- is a sickness that will destroy the Internet if we don't nip it in the bud.