Dear community,
Many of you are aware that a few years ago RavishU was almost shut down for hosting sexual content involving underage characters. To avoid having to close the site, we decided that we would no longer allow stories or any sexual content on this site that features characters below the age of 18. Despite the best efforts of our moderators and admins at the time, there still are a lot of stories in the depths of various sub boards that every now and then resurface because of users commenting on them. Like it or not, these stories are a threat to the ongoing survival of RavishU. Just this month there was another complaint about underage content on RavishU and a story and images had to be removed.
About a month ago, Vela was made an admin and one of her tasks is to sift through the many stories on this site and remove those that are still in violation of the no underage content rule. If you see her online these days, but don't see her posting anything and wonder what she's doing, she's probably reading and removing those stories that threaten the existence of this forum.
Most of the rules violating stories seem to originate from the EXTREME Stories board. As it stands now, this board is an existential threat to RavishU. That is why the decision was made to hide the board from guests and registered users with less than 5 posts for now. That decision was not taken lightly. Vela could spend her time doing more enjoyable things than combing through all of those stories. At this point, we believe hiding the EXTREME Stories board to be a necessary precaution to avoid further legal trouble.
We also want to point out that this decision is completely unrelated to the recently established RavishU reform sub board and the discussions that are going on in there. The decision to hide the EXTREME Stories board is not based on any suggestion in that board. So far, the only suggestions from the RavishU reform sub board that have been implemented are the removal of the demerit button and a slight re-arrangement of the topics on the page. Nothing else has been decided or implemented yet. I would ask you kindly to not spread misinformation in the forum that suggests that one might have anything to do with the other.
We hope that once the rules violating stories have been removed, we will be able to reopen the EXTREME Stories board to the public. If you find any stories that violate the rules, feel free to post a link to them here with a brief description as to why you think they violate the rules, ideally you would add a short quote from the story where the age of a character is revealed so that we can easily search for quote. Any reported stories in this topic, that are correctly identified will be removed and your post about them will be too, and you will be given a merit for the help. You can also pm Vela or use the report function. Vela will then take care of these stories and is quite grateful for every story she doesn't have to find myself.
We can imagine that many of you will not be happy with this decision, but we firmly believe it to be necessary for now to ensure the continued existence of RavishU.
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Eljorn (with input from the other administrators)