One Wank After Another

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Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

There was one posted a few pages back on this post. We had a huge fight about whether or not it was actually limiting, as you'd expect.

But it doesn't even have to be that long a list, there've been examples in previous years of people who dnw gen and dnw all unrequested ships for one particularly obvious one.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

DC

"DNW gen" is famously not an enforceable DNW.

(I also don't particularly want gen, but it's clearly not something you can enforce with a DNW.)

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

cyrt yeah, I think if you actually did want to try to make some kind of rule to enforce that, something like "DNWs must be limited and for specific elements, you cannot DNW entire categories or broad concepts, or DNW anything but a specific element" might be the best way. You can have as many DNWs as you want but DNWs like no gen, no unrequested ships, no references to food, no canon divergence, no darkfic, etc. will not be enforced. And if you try to DNW unrequested ships by individually DNWing all other ships that will not enforced either.

But you still couldn't really draw a non-fuzzy line and there would be a ton of wank if the mods ruled against something that was kind of on the edge. And you'd have to phrase it in a way that noncon doesn't count as an entire category of things or you might as well just not have dnws.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

cyrt

I just don't think that could work. It would end up penalising people who DNW some broad categories because they genuinely can't handle them, whereas I guarantee you that people who use DNWs to steer the writer towards a specific idea would find a way to rules-lawyer it anyway.

Re: Unpopular Opinion Time

[(Anonymous)]

If I can't DNW unrequested ships I'm leaving the exchange scene entirely and there's no way I'm the only one who feels that way.