by Zeke Sturm » Tue Oct 27, 2015 8:47 pm
Just to add my two cents to this, while I can't play at the moment, and despite being into this sort of thing myself (If you wanna kinkshame, write it on your bill), the problem is this: In the same way that I become extraordinarily uncomfortable when I run into a scene that includes things I'm not into, or one of those random squicks/pseudo-triggers that makes me shivery and physically ill, I would probably almost immediately want to log out if I found evidence of another player's scene lying around. Moreso if, as a detective (a role I haven't played recently for reasons of I'm too lazy to transfer the buttsherk), I was forced to deal with it. I wouldn't like something like a tattered jumpsuit, per se, nor would I be keen on having to deal with a vore scene in a detective role ICly if the consent area was fuzzy (either due to one or both characters no longer being on or what have you) - I'd do it, because that's the job, but I wouldn't enjoy it. Whereas having to actively deal with bones/crap/bloody fur/half-digested person would probably be the sort of thing that would make me incapable of performing the job.
Dismissing the fact that this would have a legitimate effect on some people either equating to or as mental illness, there still lies the issue that it's forced pref breaking however you do it. If you leave a pile of anything in maintenance for the janitor to find, and the janitor isn't into that sort of thing, congrats, you've broken his preferences hours after your deed was done. I get that people like permanency - but some of us don't, and I know at least three of the people who asked me to not kill off the snek permanently did so because it would've made them uncomfortably aware of their own mortality. I get that death is inevitable, entropy, yadda yadda, but some people really don't dig being reminded of that against their will.
I agree with IPU here - If you want to leave evidence? Take off clothes. Add an option to rip up clothes if you really wanna simulate that so bad. Punch them in the face. Leave evidence, what have you. But don't force other people to deal with digested corpses. Because it's not something that can be optional slash opt-in/opt-out, for reasons already stated. If it's a hard thing in the code, it's a problem in that way. If it's implied via roleplay and clever manipulation of the code, people can actually opt out if they really want to, or at least avoid the worst aspects of it.
I've put my pennies in the till, now I'm off to not code that mob I've been working on for... christ, seven months now. Peace.