Hi everyone! :) A few months back, we discussed several upcoming changes to Mycena Cave’s rules, as well as some new forum features. We’re excited to announce that it’s finally time for these changes to go live!

Our updated rules were laid out in this thread back in September. While we have tweaked the wording on some of them, these changes are now in place. Please be sure to familiarize yourself with them if you have not already! As always, you can find our rules by clicking on ’Rules and Guidelines’ at the bottom of every page. :)

• Expanded tagging:
  With our newly expanded tagging system, you’ll be able to more thoroughly tag your mature threads. Instead of one catch-all [M] tag, you will now be able to apply the following:

  • Language
  • Violence
  • Gore
  • Sexual content
  • Substance abuse

  You can select your tags by clicking on ‘advanced thread controls’ when you create or edit the first post of a thread. From there, you will be able to add any combination of the above tags as they apply, as well as a more descriptive content note, if you so choose. You’re able to select which forum tags you’d like to see under your community settings.

  IMPORTANT NOTE: Please be sure to go through and correctly tag any of your threads marked with [M]! While this tag will continue to function normally for the time being, on December 1st, any thread that still has [M] in the title will have all five new content tags applied. If you are uncertain what threads you will need to review, you will be able to see a list of all of your threads that have [M] in the title under community settings until December 1st. Until then, you will still have the ability to filter [M]-labeled threads out of recent posts.

• Hiding threads from recent posts:
  This feature comes in two parts. The first allows you to hide your own threads from appearing in Recent Posts, preventing others from seeing them. The second allows you to hide specific threads from appearing in your Recent Posts, preventing you from seeing them.

  • Hiding your threads:
    Hiding threads you create from appearing in the Recent Posts feed can only be done in certain forums, specifically any of the sub-forums under the Roleplaying section, as well as the Hangouts forum. This is to grant players more privacy in some areas while balancing the need to keep Recent Posts updated with the latest forum activity.  Please keep in mind that hiding your threads from Recent Posts is entirely optional, and that by choosing to hide them, all posts in that thread will also be hidden. You can enable this feature under ‘advanced thread controls’ when you create or edit the first post of a thread. Your threads will still be visible if a player navigates directly to the forum they are posted under.

  • Hiding other threads:
    If you’d like to hide a specific thread from Recent Posts without hiding an entire sub-forum, you will now have the ability to filter individual threads.  There is no limit to the number of threads you may filter from recent posts.

We hope you enjoy our new forum features, and as always, we welcome your questions or comments!

the thread permalinks are absolutely not working for me at all :D;;;;

cool that this stuff is finally being implemented.

doragon
Haha, I just noticed the same thing. Should be fixed now!

glitch
thank you for the prompt fix! *goes to edit stuffs*

glitch Nice to see everything updated! I like the option to hide threads. c:

One problem, though… whenever I tweak my community settings now it defaults my ID choice to display next to usernames? Even if I manually set it display in a tooltip it still reverts it to show by usernames.

yessssss…being able to block certain threads without blocking all in a forum will be nice!

edit: how does one filter out a particular thread? does it have to currently be in the recent posts for me to block it?

glitch Crow

Am I just reading everything wrong or are parts of the rules that refer to sections referring to the wrong sections? @@;;;

Lala
We’re working on getting that fixed. :) Thanks for pointing it out!

Phage: yep! You click that weird eyeball with the “nope” symbol in it, over to the right of the thread title.

Corvani: thanks for the heads up! It’s been fixed :)

Haha, I feel like a dork, but is there any way to unblock posts that you’ve hidden from recents? I clicked the without realizing it would hide the thread. Not a big deal if I can’t, just wondering if there is a way that I didn’t see.

Edit - nevermind! I figured out how to ;o;

radio - At the top of the recent posts page in the filtering options sections, if you expand it there’s an option to unblock threads you’ve hidden. :)

/edit
Or you can find it on your own 8D;;

*plays around with*
this seems needlessly complex : -/

Just for clarification, we no longer have to tag a thread with [M], we just have to add the advanced settings tags and description?

Also, what would topics like sexuality, gender identity, etc fit in with the “no controversial topics” rule? We have had some members express opinions at LGBTQ+ members for discussing it, which by the diversity of opinions on that topic in the world places it as controversial. But I don’t think it should be considered controversial or mature here.

Also, I’m a little confused about whether or not discussing sexual schools of thought is considered “sexual content” if nothing graphic is mentioned, especially since Mycena is now age 16+. As you might recall, BDSM was brought up a couple of times in some discussions, but it doesn’t feel right tagging it as “Sexual Content” (I have temporarily) since it’s not always sexual in nature or inherently violent.

Edit: Also, I don’t think Spoilers are working right now. One of my threads won’t expand when I click the spoiler and it worked fine before.

Roan: The tags which apply should describe the content. If the BDSM is fetishized or sexual in nature then apply the sexual content tag, if it’s violent in nature then apply the violence tag, etc.

These tags are just content descriptors, and adding them to your thread shouldn’t be seen as something stigmatic. With respect to LGBTQ+ it would depend on how things are being discussed — if you feel that what’s being discussed would have previously needed to be under an [M] label, then it should have the sexual content tag applied to it. Mycena Cave signup age is 16+, but we have decided that untagged content should fall under a “PG-13” rating.

Edit: could you link me via echo to the post in which the spoiler isn’t working so I can have a look?