You guys are getting crazy literature postings?
And hate to say it the real world and alot of great literature has controversial content.
However maybe you need to institute trigger warnings as headers on people taking artistic license with their writing.
Might be a balance between the crazy writings and the ability to publish original content...
I believe that all books and literature not be censored. And maybe an adult classification for things a bit more extreme.
Just thoughts. Might be worth making authors comply or the community votes might be skipped....
May people publish the full unedited versions of their works.
Hello @ganjafarmer,
Every community has a culture. This community exists only because some people decided to volunteer and curate stories. There is no benefit to being a curator. It is a service. So, if curators do not want to read stories that feature graphic brutality or sex, it is within their right to set those standards.
Hive is a diverse, open community. It offers almost infinite possibilities for expression. If the community doesn't exist that serves someone's appetites, then that someone may begin their own community. No judgement there. No limitation.
We don't want to read stories featuring graphic violence or sex. We are just people, trying to help out writers. There is no reason that helping writers should become an unpleasant chore.
I really appreciate your feedback. It's good to air these issues so we all understand our respective positions.
Have a lovely, creative day.
Ok then.
Thanks for your thoughtful comment, @ganjafarmer. The point of our article is that there are places for everything. You wouldn't walk into a classroom of third grade children and read them Lolita. Right? That's not censorship. It's about what's widely believed to be appropriate for the context. That's just one example.
The Atlantic and The New Yorker do not publish stories about violent rapes, brutal stabbings, beheadings and point-blank shootings where blood gushes from the wound. It's not censorship. They just choose what they publish.
True crime stories and R rated movies tell it all. You want violence? You want rape? You want to read about children being beaten and bashed by their parents? You want women being thrown against walls, bludgeoned, bloodied and murdered? Go find it. It's there for the viewing.
We have made a choice, and have defined what our community is about, with clear boundaries. We are a short story community, and we want great stories that don't feature disturbing scenes of violence. Just like we don't accept poems, essays, introduction posts, novels, articles about how to grow and harvest a great crop of weed, or content on gaming, we also don't accept stories here about brutality and violence. It's not that those things can't exist. They're fine... elsewhere.
We have had people leave our community and our admin team because of the prevalence of these kinds of stories, and how they appear almost daily in spite of our clear boundaries. We are merely trying to help people understand where the lines are drawn.
Does that help?