Dao Ascension's public callout should be the norm

[hTubman]

The other day Dao Immerser was memed on the HG sub for locking his content behind a patreon for months. Something that breaks CoG's publishing rules

Within a day Immerser made a public apology and posted everything behind their paywall. Honestly I can't blame them for the fսckսp. Shіt, the rule is so far down the page I have to scroll to see it.

Either way I'm fed up with all these patreons and now someone said a few WiPs have completely moved behind a paywall. Do we have a list of these?

 

[yourstalkeroutside]

Someone should make a list tbh. It's getting ridiculous, and it's obviously not being enforced.

 

[HighriserHeaven]

Someone should make a list tbh. It's getting ridiculous, and it's obviously not being enforced.

Hardly anything is ever enforced in those forums relating to authors tbh, and I understand since writing ifs is super ****ing tedious but like, it gets super ridiculous sometimes like with literally all of Mind Blind for example.

 

[ozekia]

Hardly anything is ever enforced in those forums relating to authors tbh, and I understand since writing ifs is super ****ing tedious but like, it gets super ridiculous sometimes like with literally all of Mind Blind for example.

What happen to mind blind?

 

[HighriserHeaven]

What happen to mind blind?

The game has been in wip since 2019 and the Patreon demo goes up to the end I think, it should've been released since 2021 but it has been in wip hell for that long since giving up the Patreon means losing a ton of money.

 

[Frozen Death]

Someone should make a list tbh. It's getting ridiculous, and it's obviously not being enforced.

Because the forum moderators are busy lording over others in other social media like Discord than instead of actually moderating their website and enforcing their rules on where it actually matter.

 

[ETHANSALVATO]

Either way I'm fed up with all these patreons and now someone said a few WiPs have completely moved behind a paywall. Do we have a list of these?

Alot of authors do that on the site frankly it's really annoying add defiled hearts to this list they literally only give stuff to paying people that should have been public released already

Literally could only get the new content by people sharing it on here alot of wips are doing this it's completely ridiculous to be fair you can only get the new content by subbing and they haven't given a public update in forever.

You can probably easily find other culprits by browsing it doesn't take long to find

 

[ETHANSALVATO]

Hardly anything is ever enforced in those forums relating to authors tbh, and I understand since writing ifs is super ****ing tedious but like, it gets super ridiculous sometimes like with literally all of Mind Blind for example.

That's why I hate the forums you can't critique any author, say anything against them, ask if stuff is still be worked on without being absolutely flammed for it they put authors on pedestals especially the ones with the popularity wips and don't even get me started on the *** kissing they give other authors if you hate something that was written I've been on the forums for years some get away with saying the most outrageous stuff and others get warnings for barely doing anything.

Authors are humans too they should be allowed to be given feedback if they can't handle it they shouldn't make a book in the first place.

 

[hgfhgf]

That's why I hate the forums you can't critique any author, say anything against them, ask if stuff is still be worked on without being absolutely flammed for it they put authors on pedestals especially the ones with the popularity wips and don't even get me started on the *** kissing they give other authors if you hate something that was written I've been on the forums for years some get away with saying the most outrageous stuff and others get warnings for barely doing anything.

Authors are humans too they should be allowed to be given feedback if they can't handle it they shouldn't make a book in the first place.

I agree, but I also think the forum is in a weird place currently where their is too much happening at once for the mods to actually try to and figure out how to moderate the situation in a way that is both fair for authors and consumers, imo the two biggest issues in the forum is author's paywalling their content and AI, in the past week two different authors had to speak out about the hate they received for using ai or being accused of it. Anyways my point is- is that the forum has too much **** going on and I don't think we'll see any changes with the paywall situation anytime soon.

 

[yourstalkeroutside]

Honestly, I'm feeling like biting the bullet and actually bringing this rule, and it's lack of enforcement in the COG forum proper, even if I'm probably gonna attract some entitled writers and readers who think that rules shouldn't apply to them.

 

[hTubman]

Honestly, I'm feeling like biting the bullet and actually bringing this rule, and it's lack of enforcement in the COG forum proper, even if I'm probably gonna attract some entitled writers and readers who think that rules shouldn't apply to them.

 

[pompompurin]

add defiled hearts to this list they literally only give stuff to paying people that should have been public released already

They get around this rule by having their Patreon demo built in Twine rather than Choicescript - it sucks but I think because of this loophole nothing can be done about it on COG's end

 

[hgfhgf]

They get around this rule by having their Patreon demo built in Twine rather than Choicescript - it sucks but I think because of this loophole nothing can be done about it on COG's end

tbh it's quite smart, they come over with their demo built on choicescript, and post it on the forum, build a tight-knit community on the forum and then dip to twine with their tight-knit community following over to patreon and tumblr without ever intending to publish to HG, its basically free advertisement.