The only way I see #1 as a solution is basically you're now headcanoning lore for a dragon you no longer own so now *you*, the previous owner, don't need to worry what other people write for it. This helps the previous owner come to terms with not physically having the dragon under their control or whatever. But it doesn't change that the new owner can do whatever they want with it, and most people will. I've absolutely bought dragons and wiped everything that was in the bio to make it my own- even fancy art and layouts. And since this is now a headcanon for the dragon it isn't really necessary to write it down, unless that makes you feel better.
And it's not really about whether or not *other* people would give you shit, that's irrelevant, the point is that the new owner is potentially saying disparaging things about you (on purpose or accidentally) and that that potentially falls under the site's rules against call-outs and blacklists. The point is that it *could lead to* unwanted attention to a specific user, not whether or not it actually does. This is the same reasoning for why you can't make threads praising specific users either.
But again this all really rolls around into the only real solution of stop giving a fuck what other people write. If it's heinous (and some folks have written truly fucked up shit for a pg13 website without even getting into the 'previous *insert user name* clan was abusive etc etc' stuff that started this discussion) report it and let staff handle it. Otherwise stop giving a shit, mind your own business. [general you's here]
AYRT, I've stared at this response for over five minutes and still don't get how you got "headcanoning lore for a dragon you don't own" out of saving a backup of your writing.
Because I don't see how having written down lore matters at all for a dragon you don't own. I don't see how writing down your lore has any impact on lore other people have written for a dragon you don't own.
You can save a backup of your own writing, that's pretty good practice to have, especially on the internet... but that's not a *solution* to the problem of, to paraphrase the above, 'someone else wrote lore I don't like'. Writing down your own lore is tangential to the topic at hand.
To phrase it another way... The topic is Person A has lore and sold a Lore Dragon to Person B. Person B changed that lore in a way that Person A did not like (in a non-rulebreaking way to simplify things). How does having a backup of the lore that was on the Lore Dragon help this situation?
My interpretation would be that because Person A has their own version of the lore that was on the Lore Dragon they can refer back to that whenever they get upset about Person B's lore, even though Person B's lore is the new canon for that dragon since it is now theirs (hence the headcanon comment). If Person A has their own lore to refer to, technically it doesn't really matter if they have it written down though? How does having a written backup as opposed to ideas floating around in your head really help in this matter? (The original "solution #1" specified that ideas floating in your head did not count. Why is this, what makes them significantly different than a physical backup in this situation? That's my issue.)
I actually do not think the original issue was that. That's what some people turned it to.
It more read as User A sells dragon to user B. Not a lore dragon or anything. Just a dragon. User B writes edgelord lore in dragon's profile saying User A's clan is abusers or sells their kids into slavery which upsets user A. There was nothing about deleting lore from the dragon.
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Re: SMR Lore Salt
(Anonymous) 2024-12-19 01:41 pm (UTC)(link)And it's not really about whether or not *other* people would give you shit, that's irrelevant, the point is that the new owner is potentially saying disparaging things about you (on purpose or accidentally) and that that potentially falls under the site's rules against call-outs and blacklists. The point is that it *could lead to* unwanted attention to a specific user, not whether or not it actually does. This is the same reasoning for why you can't make threads praising specific users either.
But again this all really rolls around into the only real solution of stop giving a fuck what other people write. If it's heinous (and some folks have written truly fucked up shit for a pg13 website without even getting into the 'previous *insert user name* clan was abusive etc etc' stuff that started this discussion) report it and let staff handle it. Otherwise stop giving a shit, mind your own business. [general you's here]
Re: SMR Lore Salt
(Anonymous) 2024-12-19 05:07 pm (UTC)(link)Re: SMR Lore Salt
(Anonymous) 2024-12-20 02:02 pm (UTC)(link)You can save a backup of your own writing, that's pretty good practice to have, especially on the internet... but that's not a *solution* to the problem of, to paraphrase the above, 'someone else wrote lore I don't like'. Writing down your own lore is tangential to the topic at hand.
Re: SMR Lore Salt
(Anonymous) 2024-12-20 02:31 pm (UTC)(link)To phrase it another way... The topic is Person A has lore and sold a Lore Dragon to Person B. Person B changed that lore in a way that Person A did not like (in a non-rulebreaking way to simplify things). How does having a backup of the lore that was on the Lore Dragon help this situation?
My interpretation would be that because Person A has their own version of the lore that was on the Lore Dragon they can refer back to that whenever they get upset about Person B's lore, even though Person B's lore is the new canon for that dragon since it is now theirs (hence the headcanon comment). If Person A has their own lore to refer to, technically it doesn't really matter if they have it written down though? How does having a written backup as opposed to ideas floating around in your head really help in this matter? (The original "solution #1" specified that ideas floating in your head did not count. Why is this, what makes them significantly different than a physical backup in this situation? That's my issue.)
Re: SMR Lore Salt
(Anonymous) 2024-12-20 04:26 pm (UTC)(link)It more read as User A sells dragon to user B. Not a lore dragon or anything. Just a dragon. User B writes edgelord lore in dragon's profile saying User A's clan is abusers or sells their kids into slavery which upsets user A. There was nothing about deleting lore from the dragon.