I was doing housekeeping on some old submissions that violate our content policy and noticed there were more than a couple of reports and comment section flame wars that called the vagueness of Submission Rule 6 into question. I thought I'd take a moment to clarify it.

That rule (at the time of writing) is: "This is a transformation-themed site. We strongly recommend that stories should contain a physical transformation. We won't ban or mute users who post pure furry or other fetish material, but please be aware that it's strongly discouraged."

Like I mentioned above, this rule is pretty vaguely-worded, and that's intentional. I prefer to avoid rigid rules and would really rather let the community decide what belongs here by voting/tagging as needed, and only intervene myself when absolutely necessary.

I don't want to require that stories have to include a transformation because this community has so many adjacent interests that scratch the same itch, and I love how many sub-genres of perversion I've been exposed to as a result of that.

Likewise, I don't want to require that stories have to be NSFW or strictly fetish material because there are plenty of people in this community who like things on the tamer side, and I've read plenty of great stories here that didn't include anything remotely raunchy.

However, I want to be abundantly clear that I still expect submissions to be actual STORIES. Please don't post submissions that are brainstorming sessions asking for ideas, or ads for your Patreon, or announcements that you're open for commissions, or social-media-style status updates. If there's really some political rant you need to get off your chest, do it in the forums or your profile. Or fuck, if you really insist on making it a submission, at least write it into an actual story. Let your characters have their annoying debate and then turn into slugs or something. I dunno. Just don't be surprised when a ton of people start crying in the comments.