The scribblehub terms of service do not allow fiction ?

[mysterious_cube]

 

[CadmarLegend]

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I think it means spreading misinformation, such as "Pigeons are the spies, revolt!"

but yeah, it is worded a bit weirdly.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

"Information" is the operative word there. Fiction is generally not considered information. Author's notes and such could contain information.

 

[mysterious_cube]

"Information" is the operative word there. Fiction is generally not considered information. Author's notes and such could contain information.

"Information" is directly followed up by "or content". And stories are typically considered content

 

[Ai-chan]

@Tony was likely just copying facebook TOS. Tony is not a lawyer.

 

[RepresentingCaution]

"Information" is directly followed up by "or content". And stories are typically considered content

Uh oh! You're right. My tired eyes missed that.

 

[AliceShiki]

Terms of Service are basically always copy pasted for the most part. You just follow the standard legal lingo that basically every site out there uses.

As for "Correct or Current content"... Fiction is not correct not incorrect. Fiction is... Yanno, fictional, by default and stuff.

Creating a fictional story about something isn't the same as creating incorrect content.

 

[Zirrboy]

Who said any story here is fiction? They're clearly autobiographies of the authors' real lives

 

[SakeVision]

Do you believe in the multiverse?

 

[SilvCrimBlac]

Do you believe in the multiverse?

idk why but I laughed so hard at this.

 

[Varstark]

Who said any story here is fiction? They're clearly autobiographies of the authors' real lives

Top Ten Stories That End With the Hero Writing an Autobiography

 

[Amok]

shit and here I was fifteen chapters into my WIP on how 5G towers are in fact alien tech bases designed to transmit tadpoles into ear canals whereupon these tadpoles bore into the brain and make people buy more Coca Cola and go to the opera(where additional signals are transmitted making people build more 5G towers). Ah well, back to the drawing board i guess.

 

[LunaSoltaer]

The more dangerous part is "that we deem".

So far, I haven't had negative experiences here with SH, but that "we deem" really means "SH reserves every right to punch your story into oblivion for any reason or no reason at all." (Humans have this lovely ability to deem anything as anything else for whatever the fuck reason)

Another fun one is "may constitute or contribute": If I write a story about a transgirl, and the story is, well, a cute slice of life without ANYTHING we'd consider even remotely controversial, and some transphobe reads it and gets so angry that the transgirl exists that they go murder a few people in cold blood, my transgirlbook could EASILY be said to have contributed, by setting the bastard off (If they didn't read it, they may not have killed people).

To quote myself when I evaluated the CG and ToS line by line: "As all of the above are influenced by other people's actions, this is out of my control. I am not a Goddess. I have, however, taken caution to advise readers of upcoming subject matter by means of Content Warnings, I have not written in any dangerous instructions to do anything, nor instructions to do anything dangerous, and I have displayed additional diligence in this announcement..."

In short, we are essentially trusting SH to be reasonable. And it seems a thriving community of multiple years is doing something correctly :) (but yes they can also say "content" is, well, the CONTENT that we post. But again, if Tony et al actually DID that, this site would become a meme overnight.)

Have fun :P

 

[Ai-chan]

The more dangerous part is "that we deem".

So far, I haven't had negative experiences here with SH, but that "we deem" really means "SH reserves every right to punch your story into oblivion for any reason or no reason at all." (Humans have this lovely ability to deem anything as anything else for whatever the fuck reason)

Another fun one is "may constitute or contribute": If I write a story about a transgirl, and the story is, well, a cute slice of life without ANYTHING we'd consider even remotely controversial, and some transphobe reads it and gets so angry that the transgirl exists that they go murder a few people in cold blood, my transgirlbook could EASILY be said to have contributed, by setting the bastard off (If they didn't read it, they may not have killed people).

To quote myself when I evaluated the CG and ToS line by line: "As all of the above are influenced by other people's actions, this is out of my control. I am not a Goddess. I have, however, taken caution to advise readers of upcoming subject matter by means of Content Warnings, I have not written in any dangerous instructions to do anything, nor instructions to do anything dangerous, and I have displayed additional diligence in this announcement..."

In short, we are essentially trusting SH to be reasonable. And it seems a thriving community of multiple years is doing something correctly :) (but yes they can also say "content" is, well, the CONTENT that we post. But again, if Tony et al actually DID that, this site would become a meme overnight.)

Have fun :P

Don't worry, Tony is a reasonable overlord. He doesn't outright ban you, there are some communication before you get banned. While his decisions are final, you can request time to backup your stuff if necessary.