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Maybe the time has finally come to add that "Dynasty isn't a yuri reader" in the rules.
In all caps and as a header.Maybe with a link to your in-depth reply, OP. This way we might avoid people having a meltdown in everyhetupload thread.
I would use the term "not yuri-exclusive" rather than just yuri. That said, I do not think it will help much, just look at the accounts which did all that complaining (granted, most of those comments have been removed by staff now). Half of those people have been on the site for years but have never clued into the fact Dynasty uploads het sometimes. (And even yaoi.)
However, a public statement in a visible place would not be a bad idea on its own. Because that thread also demonstrated a common problem with the public perception here. One user wrote a bunch of nonsense trying to excuse bad behaviour that people really were not in the position to be excused for, but amongst other things wrote extensively how Dynasty "promotes" and "advertises" itself as a "yuri focused" site (which they meant as yuri-exclusive, otherwise it makes no sense that a single het upload (or any het upload) would cause this reaction).
Dynasty never "promoted" itself as anything, it is a manga reader site that started with a single scanlation group which simply did a lot of yuri (but not only yuri). The "promoting" and this entire nebulous "community" stuff that sprang around it is entirely done by the fans, an organic process once enough people were visiting the place.
That said, in the long run this is one of those issues that will never go away completely. It has been here since forever and will simply remain so. The staff is on-point every time, though. Probably the best take on the issue:
I don't think there's much for me to say or address here, really. So I'll just respond to the little bit that does. I have no problem with others continuing this conversation as they see fit, but all the usual rules apply. Please be kind.
Hi. This sounds like my post. If a mod could revive that post for clarity's sake, I'd appreciate it.
Dynasty absolutely promotes itself as a yuri site. Dynasty is a yuri site.
I know what the staff will say, "We're not a yuri site, we just upload what we want," etc. I've been on the site long enough to have read the fine print; this isn't news to me. But these are just excuses to deflect responsibility.
If you are able to quote me saying that Dynasty is "not a yuri site" or shouldn't be considered LGBT friendly or anything like that, please do so, and I'll take a look at it. My primary contention with these arguments that pop up on occasion are the choice to claim that we "promote" or "market" ourselves as anything. To my knowledge, we don't do any promotion or marketing whatsoever, and the people who find us find us through other platforms by word-of-mouth. In private, I've rarely given a specific and unconditional label to the site's contents.
I want to believe that Dynasty staff has heard all of this before and anticipated the shitstorm that arose, but like I said, actions speak louder than words, and their actions - or inaction in this case - says the opposite, because that chapter discussion had no warning of any sort of what kind of posts wouldn't be tolerated and where people could read relevant information until well after the shitstorm arrived. No one can honestly believe that most users actually go into the general forum area and read everything instead of just commenting wherever they happen to be. That doesn't excuse those posts or make them acceptable, but if your rules are buried in a place most users aren't going to see them, maybe you ought to accept some of the blame.
You may take issue with the location of the rules if you'd like, there's nothing I can do about that, so it is how it is. You seem to be wrong on some things though, and I'm not really sure why.
From the first post I didn't like, I posted the relevant rule and redirected users to the rules thread. When the situation grew worse, I posted a final, general warning and again redirected users to the rules thread. When someone chose to ignore those prior warnings and continue, I banned them immediately, and directed them to the prior warnings. Everyone else who continued had their post removed and was banned for a day.
I haven't the time to review every post removed or every user banned, but at least half of them had read enough prior comments to have an opinion on the general direction of the thread. They had seen the warnings, they simply didn't care enough to not have their voices heard in that thread. That's fine, I respect their calculation. For those who did not, I hope what transpired will be a reminder of what is expected of them in the future. Thanks.
Dynasty absolutely promotes itself as a yuri site. Dynasty is a yuri site. Have you read the rules yourself? I'm copy-pasting here:
First, and above all, remember that everyone is here to have fun and enjoy yuri together. This is the literal first line in the rules post.
We encourage the promotion of yuri works or projects by members of the community and do not consider such promotion to be spam.
Insulting scanlators is unacceptable, and will result in your comment and possibly you being removed from the forum. They work hard to bring us the yuri we love, and they don’t need abuse for it.I know it's on the upload request page but it's there. Also there is a blacklist feature that can hide
Hettag.
Thanks Lilli, really did mean to post that. I'll add it to the rules and FAQ later, if it's not already somewhere in there.
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