Some here at this site can be a bit sanctimonious, but one thing I am seeing as a T woman, is that thick skin is good. In looking at my own goals for writing, I want to write some stories that are adventures without explicit content, but then again, I have read and written a few stories that were pretty explicit.

My muse is so moody. One day she is Belle ("Beauty and the Beast"), and the next she is a hot wet slut. Go figure.

I'd tend to say go with just identifying the stories adequately or restricting access to X stories on this site. But then again, who is going to be the Cop? I worry about potential access by the growing number of youngsters who are T. Many parents are obviously clueless about what their children access.

Were I the Mom of our British miss, I just don't know what I would do. Even if all the "smut" were shunted over to another site, who would want to take the responsibility for either site's content? Certainly not I.

When I think about the journey my writing has chronicled, I can see huge changes in my state of mind over the years that I have written. Looking back, I can see that my purpose for writing was to explore and develop my newly wakened personality.

"MS Frankenstein" was intended to portray a nearly hysterical and badly frightened woman. "Natural Slave", was simply a cry for love and security from an extremely lonely T woman. "Hala's Snow Day" was a young T woman working out her own insecurities. So, my writing is about me working out my own stuff out of selfish self interest.

Others here, just have a lot of artistic talent and the skill to back it up. You can not compare my work to theirs. They "Got it" and I am mediocre.

None of my work is intended to meet the needs of those hunting for Masturbatory Fantasies. Those are in abundance over on ASSTR. Which perhaps is where the X writer folks here should go?

Gosh I have just dug up the flower beds and not said a thing.

Gwen

I guess I don't get what the whole root of what is going on is. I have been perusing Erin's sites for many years. I seldom read the comments, unless a topic grabs my attention. When I am at Crystals's, I read a story....thats as far as I go, since you have to go elsewhere to see a comment and I hardly ever go to a hyperboard, especially the one at FM. So I don't follow discussions there either. I KNOW this is considered a COMMUNITY, but I see inflamatory posts right out there for for everyone to read. (maybe they should be separate). This only stirs things up even worse, as people jump to the defense of a favorite author, or a friend, or for just a "right" in general. Many people have been chased away from here and other sites. All for what? Not picking on anyone in particular, but one person here will remain un-named. She is a prolific author, and a decent to good one. I just choose not to read a lot of her works, as they don't particularly interest me. She also is a very verbal person and leaves a lot of comments,(sometimes biting, sometimes teasing, and sometimes sarcastic, often its hard to tell the difference, unless you know her) many of which are misunderstood, and this misunderstanding draws a lot of blood and hard feelings. Some are understood correctly, especially when she fires back at someone that has "dinged" her. Thats the way the human beast is. Criticism, deserved or not is not well accepted by the human animal.
There is another very good prolific author that pops up here and there. I read maybe 1 in 4 of her stories, because her favorite story line just does not appeal to me usually. I do read some, and enjoy those I do. That's also the human beast at work. If we all read everything that was published, then every author out there would be a million seller or more, and every one would be rich. Heck maybe counting sales would not be a good measure of quality if everyone read everything. But then where would the good feeling a popular author has come from? Anyway....
The topics at the headers here do a pretty good job of telling me what I want to read and what not. I will start a story, and if I can't get into it, I skip down and see if it gets better. If not I pass on. This is an adult site, and we are adults, right?
I don't have to go searching for what is available to read as I check in daily and can see what is offered easily. Since I have been here since before the site was conceived, and even its predecessor, I have seen everything posted. What I do is check the old posts to see if something I forgot about pops up. I do the same thing at Crystals history. I can understand a newbie may be kind of lost here, but its not that hard to figure things out. Go author by author if necessary. I have done so at FM and Crystals. I have not read every story posted, but I have at least looked at the synopsis of every story, author by author.
Maybe the answer is to create another site for "public consumption" and let them go at it. Then this could revert to a small community. I don't know. Since I am not familiar with the "insite" operation, and "infighting" (poorly chosen wording I know, but can't think of another), I just don't know what the problem is. I'm sure that applies to a WHOLE bunch of people, and maybe like me sometimes, they are happy reading in their "ignorance" and just keep on keeping on. I have probably wasted most of this, as I am good at thinking things, but poor at organizing or getting them down on paper.

BTW, if I recall Crystals post correctly, she is redesigning her site to make it author posting, instead of her having to code and post every single story. She used to read them all, to do that properly, but she has seldom had time to read, just trying to keep up.

Edits to correct some spelling, and add the bit about Crystal's.

And again by the way....its your site Erin. You have done well so far. Do whatever it takes to make it easy and better for YOU. We will live with it. The human animal is very adaptable.

As to the part of "Another site"...... I check 28 sites daily, often more than once. Thats just for stories or a couple are forums for a site, like Crytal Hall for Whateley. That does NOT count the dozen blogs TG Caps I peruse, and a few favorite comix. Another one would just be gravy. Some authors choose to post on one or two sites. Some sites attract certain types of postings. Some authors throw them out all over the place. And not everyone checks everyplace. I know there are more sites than I check, as I hear about one here and there, I never knew about. The more the merrier, as Piper said.

This is a hard choice to make. As an author, I need the site you provide in order to pursue the hobby. As such, I am grateful for all that you have done, and I will be grateful for all that will surely continue to do. If shifting some of the coarser content to a second site will help maintain an atmosphere more like the one that I chose to become a part of when I began posting, then I will be happy for that as well.

I am at odds however, because as an author, I’d like the stories I post to have the widest possible audience on this site. Not on FM or Storysite. I don’t like their setups, and the lack of control I felt when I posted a story only to wait four months for Crystal to get around to it.

So I’m just looking for one site like the big closet. In that I am at odds with your need to relieve some pressure on the site. Splitting the site will split that audience.

I also feel that the coarse content won’t find as much acceptance here, and it will be kept to a minimum through evolutionary pressure. If there is a much more powerful server in transit, then that might solve the inorganic problems with the single move, as has been pointed out. The organic problems usually take their own path anyway, regardless of what we do, but I would say that the need to separate the contents has not
been necessitated by an overly large volume of explicate material as yet.

In the end, I feel that you’ve already made, or are close to making the decision. If any comment would still be helpful, then I would say that I’d not complain given that you are only doing what you think you need to do, and that from a very much better vantage point to make such determinations than I currently enjoy.

Sarah Lynn

What about using the second site as sort of a community center. We can move all the poems and drabbles and all old blogs over there. There have been more resipies on here latley, that can be done on the new site to and expanded upon. This new site can be used to inhance the community feelings on this site. Not take away from it like people are worried about. When new stories are posted here, a link and brief description can apear on the new site. Keep the sites working together.

Just a few ideas.

Jessica Marie

I mean, this is kind of what's needed to happen for awhile, with the very near content wars that have happened in the past. Just because I don't like X rated stuff doesn't mean I don't think there's a need for it. It's just not for me.

Edeyn

When all said and done Erin and the support team is the boss and they will decide what action to take. More power to ERIN.

My advice is to sit down and decide what your priorities are. If it's to split the stories into two groups for two different communities of readers, then do that.

If it's to spread the load across two servers for capacity loading, then do that.

If it's to offer two different user interfaces, then do that.

You can do more than one thing at once, but you're going to confuse people, and likely yourselves.

Ways To Accomplish Some Of These

Capacity load sharing can be achieved by having the front end and menu on one server and (some or all of) the stored stuff on another.

Multiple interfaces can be achieved by having two front ends to the same stories on the same server.

Segregation of softcore and hardcore can be achieved the same way as multiple interfaces. A key value would determine which menu a story/entry/blog would show up on. Users could pick their interface from a main login menu.

One more thought.

If you do decide to differentiate stories that way, I hope you'll lift the age restriction on the "soft" side. I think TG kids deserve a place to hang out, too.