Site Post » Greetings from your new site owner! · 6:56am Apr 1st, 2013
First of all, I want to clear the air right away. Yes, knighty posted this news on April Fool's Day. Yes, he made the blog post very sarcastic and humorous. All of that was just to sort of cushion the impact, if you will. Some big changes are going to be coming under my banner, and they're going to start as soon as the move is all settled and everybody is up to speed.
First order of business is that big site changes are going to be less frequent now, and users warned in advance of their coming. While I do adamantly believe that almost all of knighty's redesigns and general updates have been good, and done for the good of the site, they are certainly quite jarring, especially when they happen out of nowhere. So we're going to slow down a bit on those. That doesn't mean the site will stay the same - we're always improving! - just expect it to be less frequent.
Now on to a more controversial change. From tomorrow onwards, no new human fics may be submitted to the site. This includes Human in Equestria fics, humanized fics, and any fics about the future Equestria Girls show (may be subject to change). As usual this is not retroactive so your current stories are safe. I understand this change is unlikely to be received well by the majority of our users, but I do believe that in the long run it will be healthier for the site. Humanized fics tend to cause nothing but issues, both for the users and the moderation team.
Those are the two big changes that I wanted to get out of the way early. Most of the other changes will be behind the scenes, and you probably won't even notice them, but they are all with the aim of improving the site. Again, I want to stress that the confusion is merely the result of some unfortunate timing, and these changes are almost certainly going through. Silly knighty!
RIP in pieces knighty, you will be missed.
Ummm... Okay then! Were is the change list? Is there one? Whats being changed?
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Wait equestria girls is real?! Noooooooo!!! Oh my god its going to suck so hard!
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Are you sure you read the blog post?
I have absolutely no problems with any of this.
All hail Poultron.
Wait a minute...
What about Ponies on Earth fics? Or Pokémon on Equestria?
Or Crossovers with shows not starring miniature pastel equines?
$$cash money$$
(User was banned for this post (Reason: "Shut the fuck up" -Poultron))
I'll wait till April 2nd to confirm all of this.
well fuck, that sure did blind side me.
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No humans at all.
EDIT: I guess pokemon crossovers are OK as long as there's no humans involved.
Heil Poultronler
Once April Fool's Day passes, I will surely commence the shitstorm.
Until then...
It's time to laugh for eternity...
Reactions are currently bottled up until April 2nd.
This seems interesting.
Does this mean you'll fix the mobile version, like reverting it back to what it should be?
964880i think so hold on...
Re reads very carefully...
Okay... Right... Gocha. Sorry bout that, i always get stuff mixed up in my head.
Oh, what does gold mean? I got one and a buch of the poeple i know got one and theres a group claimbing it makes you superior now... Whats that about?
If you dont mind me asking dumb questions
964895 So what about crossovers with non-human creatures with anthropomorphic qualities?
Or giant robots of the transforming variety?
I think your ban of the Human tag is a great mistake.
MONEYTIZE that shit! If they want to write humanized fic, they should pay for the priviledge!
$$$$$$
Next up, can we ban 2nd person shipfics?
But I was gonna write the sequel to Eternal... Eternal 2: The Mike Tyson Complex
So would that mean the majority of crossovers (as most seem to be crossed over with humans) will no longer be accepted?
Okay, actually, I love you. Fuck you Knighty, I like Poultron better.
ALL HAIL POULTRON!
If you are serious about the "No Human" thing, I'm leaving. That is the reason I refuse to post to Equestria Daily.
"... users warned in advance of [big changes] coming."
"Oh, and by the way, no more HiE tomorrow."
Can you finish this Story?
I know it's on hiatus, and you'll be busy banning Regidar, but it is absolutely riveting....
Well shit. Now the guy doing the Mass Effect crossover won't be able to do the part after the New Ponyville interlude... This change sucks... I know that some of them can be shit fics, but other ones are quite good. Don't just stop accepting human fics because of them...
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I was considering this as well, yes. But I'm not entirely sure yet.
What about Klingons?
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You know what, that's a good point. I'll give everybody a week to flood the site with their terrible HiE fics before we switch over.
This will probably be the one exception to that rule. Apologies for that.
964895 I see absolutely no reason for it and it blocks off a lot of potential fics simply because of this stupid change.
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Chances are slim.
The feature box shall rejoice.
Is this for f*cking real?
I like Human in Equestria stories.. I'm very sad to see you make this change. Is there any way we can get you to reconsider? Please?
964935
You drive a hard bargain, my friend. I shall put this to careful consideration.
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>A week to flood the site with their terrible HiE fics
Oh Celestia, what have you done?
While I do believe HiE can be good, I am still overjoyed by this first change.
Long live Poultron.
My jimmies have been placed in a liquid nitrogen cooled container until 12:00 AM Tuesday. If, at that time, it's revealed that this isn't a really elaborate April Fool's joke, a Loss of Coolant Accident will occur. The jimmies will rustle and overheat. At that point, they'll melt out of their container and cause a containment breach, melt through the floor, hit the water table, and cause an explosion that will irradiate half of North America. For everyone living in the Midwest and West Coast's sake, I hope it's just a prank.
If you want to be taken seriously, you may want to wait until the 2nd rolls around to clarify things.
Edit: Whoa, I've got a gold bar! Sweet!
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one last question... knighty doesn't think the fandom is ending does he? do you think that? I ask because the phrase, "so long and thanks for all the (whatever)" is kinda my go to thing to say when i leave a sinking ship.
(Douglass Adams for the win)
Kill all Humans..........
Seriously though, if think this is indeed true we'll have to post HIE off this site.
I so happen to love Humans and Pony interaction stories, despite what my avatar would tell you.
Edit: As I said later here.
Unfortunately this also means an end to like 99% of crossovers.
Don't know why, but this post made me miss Knighty, a bit. Anyways, all hail our new lord, Poultron. Hope you make this site better.
First they came for the Greentext fics
and I didn't speak out, because I wasn't an idiot that used greentext
Then they came for MST3K fics
and I didn't speak out, because i had those on a different site
Then they came for humanized school fics
and I didn't speak out, because mine was close enough to an alt universe canon
Then they came for me
and there was noone left to speak for me
Oh thank goodness! I've recently been having the urge to write a first contact through dimensional rift sci-fi fic. Now I have every reason to ignore that terrible portion of my brain and focus on what really matters: mane six/OC ship fics.
I don't really read human fics that often anyhow. But I agree with whatever site changes you see fit.
I have a request.
Any time someone says the word "pony", ban them.
Any time someone says the word "ban", ban them too.
Any time a story is submitted, ban the submitter.
Any time a blog post is published, ban the poster and all who commented on the post.
Any time a PM is sent, ban both the sender and receiver.
Anyone who hasn't broken these will be banned on April 1, 2014.
The next day delete all the accounts and open the site up again, but rename yourself knighty first.
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Gold members get
-bigger avatars
-animated avatars
-signatures
-more user box modules
-more customization
-remove ads
ALL HAIL THE MIGHTY POULTRON, DESTROYER OF SHAMELESS SELF INSERTS!!!!!!!
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I'm not sure. He probably does. I'm not sure if it's ending or not myself, but fimficiton is certainly still popular enough to stay maintained. We still get about a hundred stories a day, after all!
cant tell if still a joke but i cant really find a shit to give
what the fucks a gold member?