A note from your Editor-in-Chief on pseudonymity
If you're familiar with this project at all, you know that pretty much nobody publishes under their real, legal name. But what's more notable, I feel, is that almost everyone has project-specific identities.
Part of this is, of course, the nod to our 'online, English-language text equivalent of one of those All Yomikiri Bimonthly Summer Special 100 Extra Pages!! manga phonebook' origins, which is why most of them are in ridiculously bad/punny Japanese, like many real mangaka names.
But a larger, and more serious, part is that this project is about porn, and the offline world doesn't always react well to porn. There are people out there whose schools and jobs don't care what they get up to in their spare time, and there are even some lucky few who can make a living being open about their smutty work. But for many of us, having our adult creative works outed to employers, co-workers, friends, and family would be professionally and personally devastating.
Even more so, this project is a space where people often use sex-containing stories to explore sensitive topics, including but not limited to: dubious content, underage sexuality, abusive relationships, and straight-up body horror. The thought that someone might use those stories to impugn someone's reputation either online or in real life is chilling -- and not only plausible, but something that happened to a longtime contributor yesterday.
So if you're one of our contributors, here's our privacy promise to you:
Questions? Ask them here! We want to be as transparent as we can be about this, because this is not a small deal.
Part of this is, of course, the nod to our 'online, English-language text equivalent of one of those All Yomikiri Bimonthly Summer Special 100 Extra Pages!! manga phonebook' origins, which is why most of them are in ridiculously bad/punny Japanese, like many real mangaka names.
But a larger, and more serious, part is that this project is about porn, and the offline world doesn't always react well to porn. There are people out there whose schools and jobs don't care what they get up to in their spare time, and there are even some lucky few who can make a living being open about their smutty work. But for many of us, having our adult creative works outed to employers, co-workers, friends, and family would be professionally and personally devastating.
Even more so, this project is a space where people often use sex-containing stories to explore sensitive topics, including but not limited to: dubious content, underage sexuality, abusive relationships, and straight-up body horror. The thought that someone might use those stories to impugn someone's reputation either online or in real life is chilling -- and not only plausible, but something that happened to a longtime contributor yesterday.
So if you're one of our contributors, here's our privacy promise to you:
- We're not going to give out your contact information. If someone wants to get in touch with you, we'll give you their information and let you make the choice.
- We're not going to out you on the SSBB Wiki. You, of course, should feel free to link whatever you want to wherever you want, and if you know a contributor is open elsewhere about the work they do, go ahead and add that information! But we're not going to be the ones who connect the G-rated photography blog your grandparents know about to your hardcore-porn-writing name.
- We're not going to demand you respond to anyone's comments, questions, reviews, or requests. We'll do our best to make sure you know about them, but that's it.
- We're not going to publish your name, email address, or other online presences without your consent. Ever.
Questions? Ask them here! We want to be as transparent as we can be about this, because this is not a small deal.