>>23158

At risk of sounding stubborn (wouldn’t be the first time), let’s compare websites I frequently read, websites I read and frequently contribute to, and websites I never read or contribute to. First case: gurochan. I can come here and read EVERYTHING on it without ever ‘agreeing’ to anything, and I can post whatever I want without ‘agreeing’ to anything and without even once having an email address demanded. The format and function of gurochan is perfect, like a dozen other places devoted to other topics. The only thing I find wrong with gurochan is the reaction I’d get if I posted my stories here without any shit, piss, blood, gore, mutilation, injury, or death, or threats of any of those things, all of which ruin a story for me. Thus this is the wrong place for my stories, and I accept that.

ASSTR was great; it let me post whatever stories I wanted, and let me read everything on the site, without even once being forced to ‘agree’ to anything, even giving an email address was optional. I greatly miss it, and I wish someone somewhere would recreate it.

Then there’s this other website where they absolutely refuse to let you even SEE what’s there, at all, unless you ‘agree’ to something I find completely disagreeable. I’ve never even seen one page of what’s on Archive Of Their Own because they won’t show me anything unless I first LIE to them. It’s like a coffee shop that won’t let you in the front door to see what they have until you sign a statement saying they have the right to do an invasive colonoscopy on you whenever they want.

Why can’t there be someplace like gurochan only without the requirement to include things I detest? So that everyone can read it, everyone can contribute what they want, and no one is forced to lie or show ID to get in the door?