Fiction: I remove the text, as I refuse to censor the comment.
Hello community, who is in charge of doing the censorship?
What is an LG community, I don't know those Gringo acronyms?
Why do they censor a fictional text, which is a horror story, which is well written and that I did not break the rules of the community?
It is also a community of adults, who write. Not as children, so one cannot exclude horror, which is a genre of literature, valid as any other.
Or is only the censorship and the comment a personal view of the censor?
If so, I would like to know, what has the censor written. Books, texts, articles that qualify it?
I would like to know, if the censorship allows it of course....
And answering your question, if I would read it to my grandmother, and my 80-year-old great aunt.
Not to a child, because it is not children's literature.
https://x.com/ronaldjmarrero/status/1869188904521548144
I really enjoyed reading your story. The party that led to a night of terror and an encounter with a demon. The fluid narrative makes the story dynamic to read. Very well done.
Thanks for sharing your story with us.
Good day.
Hi @rincopoetico7, first of all happy day.
I'm glad you liked it.
I happened to put Lilith in the story and make it scary, because I had a conversation with a neighbor and he asked me if I knew the story of Adam's first wife, so I told him what the Sumerian and Jewish mythology says about her, and that's where the story came from.
Thank you very much for the comment.
My best wishes.
The story is well written but does it pass this test? Would you read it to your grandmother? Would you read it to children? We are a PG community and really like PG writing.
Hi, what is a PG community?
And what's missing has a horror story?
Is the censorship yours or does it belong to the community?
I wouldn't read it to a child, but if I were a teenager, of course I would read it to my grandmother and in fact I sent it to my aunt who is 80 years old, and she reads literature, and horror is part of literature.
Please let me know, to send you the text before publishing it, so, you do the censorship according to your taste before publishing.
Finally, the text does not break any of the community rules.
Anyway, only, it seems that it is ignorance and exclusion, for the simple fact that austed did not like the text.
The story was well written. It was the sexual content that was objectionable. Horror is fine. This wasn't graphic horror, no blood and gore, so that worked fine. Of course we reserve the right to judge writing submitted to the community. You may call that censorship. We are humans, reading stories. Just people. If something violates our sense of what is appropriate, then we don't curate.
There is no sexuality in the story, as such, only a kiss and the feeling is described as part of the process of seduction of a demon.
There is no sexuality, I don't know if it is the translator, but, whatever he says, the text cannot be described as sexual, since it is not, and at no time is reflected, as such. Seduction is spoken of as a fact of manipulation.
And if they don't have the literary ability to rate a text, how can they judge it? Under which criterion, they do it, the morality or the personal view of the censor. If so, it would be good to know who the censor is and what his qualifications are, what he has written, what he reads, at a minimum, to see if he has the real capacity, to be able to censor.
If they do not understand what a text is about, instead of censoring under a very possible and very limited personal vision of the world and literature, they can use an AI, to see if it helps them understand what is written, and the genre of what is written, to see if they stop saying, or believing things that are not.
The text does not violate the terms of the community, and although you pretend to say that it is sexual, it is not, and I assure you that my 15-year-old niece can explain perfectly and with literary arguments and examples from novels and short stories, that it is not so. And I assure you that he will do very well.
Anyway, as you can see, censorship is a personal decision, based perhaps on a supposed vision of morality, and to talk about morality, it would first have to be defined, as well as the epistemological position and the cultural environment, that one has before the world, in order to give a discussion on the topic, so it is absurd to continue with this topic.
Before finishing, I will say, that although, as you write: "they can judge the texts" I also say that one has the right to express one's opinion. Unless, the freedom of expression in the Hive communities, are as exclusive and as tyrannical, as in the United States and the European Union, where they close media, and block web addresses, so that there is only one view of the world.
I think that his position is an error, that it is exclusionary and that it is not based on the literary process, but on a personal choice. And just as you have the right to censor, users also have the right to choose, where to participate.
Happy evening and happy holidays.