Recent content by Pauan

Defending artistic expression and freedom of speech does not make somebody a lolicon. But even if somebody is a lolicon, so what? It is legal to be a lolicon, fiction is not a crime. It's not any different from somebody saying that they love Breaking Bad (which is a fictional show that...

Creating actual genuine child pornography of real children has a penalty of 5 to 20 years in prison. Slavery has a penalty of life imprisonment. Society has decided that slavery is far worse than child pornography. Creating "child pornography" drawings of fictional "children" has no penalty...

So you don't have an issue with the author choosing to make rape, drugs, and sex slavery a core part of the manga? But the author choosing to have a wide variety of body types and personalities to cater to different preferences is where you draw the line?

You are the one who said that it's the appearance that matters, not the age. You specifically said "child looking adult". If a woman is 12 years old but looks like she's 30, that's still pedophilia, even though she doesn't look like a child. Drawings don't have an age, because they don't...

Ohhh, I get it! It's about the appearance of the women! https://jpop.fandom.com/wiki/Nagasawa_Marina This is Nagasawa Marina. She is 30 years old, but she looks like a child. According to you, she should not be allowed to date or marry, because that would be "pedophilia" (which you said is...

@zanonyn Except what the manga is saying is the same as: "we shouldn't have electricity in people's houses, because some tiny percentage of children will end up dying from it (despite our best efforts to prevent that)" Obviously that's absurd. Yes we should try to protect children, but...

@BestBoy The poll was literally about credit pages, it was NOT about user conduct. Some group sniped one of Hatigarm's manga and added an edgy credit page which said "scanlators which ask for donations are greedy". Hatigarm got upset and demanded that MangaDex ban the edgy credit page. MangaDex...

The supposed reason for this change is to make moderator's lives easier by avoiding the heated political debates, correct? But if so, then shifting those political debates from manga comments to the forums won't help, because the heated debates will still be happening (just in a different...

@Teasday Yes you did strawman. You said this: "The only way for us to not have to moderate anything is to remove comments." Contrary to what you implied, I never once suggested or implied that MangaDex should "not moderate anything". As for the discrepancy between comments and credits, the...

@Teasday Please do not strawman my arguments. That is very unkind of you. I am not against moderation (I made that *very* clear in my post). I very clearly said that I am in *favor* of having section 5.1 apply to credit pages. What I am against is having a separate standard for credit pages...

@Plykiya I have followed the entire drama since all the way back with Hatigarm (and Rapeman as well). The vast majority (65.3%) of MangaDex readers do not want harsher rules. I am aware of your position and perspective, but I vehemently and fundamentally disagree with it, both because of my...

Rule 2.6 sounds completely fair and reasonable to me. However, rule 3.2.7 seems overly broad. I'm perfectly happy for the credit pages to follow the rules of section 5.1 (I believe that 5.1 should be applied uniformly everywhere), but 3.2.7 seems to go *far* beyond that. Now there are things...

@Plykiya Being able to sort by unread first is nice, but that still means it's displaying the already read manga. I really do want the read manga to be completely hidden. I use https://mangadex.org/follows/chapters/1/1/ as a way to easily see updates to the manga I'm following. I only want to...

@Liquidxlax You're vastly underestimating how different European culture is: https://dutchreview.com/featured/sex-education-in-the-netherlands/ But even in America, if a 20 year old had sex with a 16 year old, basically nobody would care. What matters is not the absolute age, what matters is...

@Liquidxlax Nobody mentioned marriage (sex before marriage is quite common). And people do often have sex with their classmates while in school, so graduating has nothing to do with it either. In fact, in the Netherlands it's considered a problem if highschoolers *aren't* having sex, since the...