WOLF Rating Adjustment: 3-1-3

Thank you all for your questions! For now, I'll post the answers as separate replies, but these will all eventually get consolidated to a guide.

Is explicit violence still okay? Yes. Violence is still rated as a 3. I understand that this is still considered mature content and not everyone is comfortable reading it, hence the continued requirement of marking threads and posts with a mature warning. There is nothing illegal about writing about this content in a fictional setting. WOLF is also about, well, wolves -- and violence is very much a part of their nature.

Why isn't there simply a zero-tolerance policy on anything sexual? I am not implementing a zero tolerance policy because the goal of this change is not to completely censor the community from writing or talking about these topics. Referencing the fact that your character has gone through sexual trauma, or connected with another character, is within the guidelines. Implying that it occurred in a thread through the use of metaphor is within the guidelines. There is nothing illegal about that. However, explicit details of the acts occurring round over round between multiple participants, is no longer allowed; given that we never truly know the age of thread participants, the goal is really to avoid anything that could be construed as illegal activity OOC (i.e. abuse of a minor).

Why is there still a #nsfw channel on Discord? The short version is that there are different legal protections in play between these forums and Discord. I self-host these forums. Discord is a third-party with controls built-in and a ToS that users agree to follow, regardless of what server(s) they belong to. If minors lie to gain access to these channels and violation is discovered, it could result in a ban from Discord itself, as well as our server.

What about content in past threads? These threads are "safe", in that you are not required to modify them and you will not receive a strike for following the rating guidelines WOLF had at the time of writing. We do not delete threads or posts as a hard policy on WOLF, as we consider your writing and creativity to be pretty sacred; we also do not want to break continuity by doing so. If it is your personal preference to update your past posts to meet the new guidelines, please request revivals in maintenance so that you are able to edit and can then archive them again on your own.