Sep
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2017
Vote to Clop... Or Not · 1:17am Sep 13th, 2017
My story review system is still being carefully crafted. In the interim, I need to decide how to split myself in twain. That's where you come in.
This is my best attempt at Hasbro thing. (Yes, they're copper.)
I need your help to decide where I should put my stories if they get naughty! 
Thank you for being awesome. 
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#review
#vote
#poll
#help
#account
#fimfiction
#clop
#story
#taboo
#twilight's secret journal
i say no
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Er... but that does not actually answer the question.
Click on the vote thingy and you can provide input!
I guess I'm new here: what is TSJ?
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It's the novel-length M story I have posted (now close to completion), Twilight's Secret Journal. Not for the faint of heart.
I think you should just not clop...
But I voted all the same.
I tried, but I couldn't figure out how to make a black-and-red alicorn.
Motherf*****
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It's a family oriented account of Twilight's journey to explore the deeper meaning of friendship.
Note: the story has a disclaimer. You would do well to take heed of it before reading the story.
I want that pony. Now.
Basically you are asking if you should go the Ocal/DLS route? If it's explicitly clop for the sake of clop, you could post it on another account, but if the clop is a vessel for an actual story, as in the case of TSJ, keep that on your main profile. I think that the staff can even move stories to or from an account.
It's nice to know I'm not the only pony who has ever lost sleep over this issue.
I have also considered breaking up into two accounts - one for Mature, and one for not. I'm not entirely certain which among my stories count as "clop" since everybody seems to have a slightly different interpretation of that, but I usually consider anything with explicit content to fall under it. In my case, by the time I started thinking about this I already had both mature and teen rated stories under this account, so that was part of the reason I ultimately chose not to break them up, since I would then have to get the moderators to reassign several of my stories to a new account. That, and I was concerned it might confuse my readers to see some of my stories suddenly "attributed" to somebody else.
I would ask yourself - why do you feel you need to break up your stories between multiple accounts in this way? Is there a specific goal such an action will help you achieve? Is it for your own benefit, or for that of your readers? If it's the latter, I would take it a step further and ask yourself why exactly such an act would benefit your readers. A "mature" story is just a story, like any other. Is it worth breaking up your follows, having to blog in two places, being known as two different personas and having to determine who knows you as what, and so forth? It may be worth it - I can't speak to your individual situation. But if you're simply worried about the 'reputation' you might engender for publishing explicit stories, I think your readers need to exercise a bit more personal discretion and not click on things they're not interested in. If they're upset just because they're seeing mature stories pop up when they search you at all, then I would refer them again to the need to exercise personal discretion. Turn off the TV show that bothers you, shelve the book that you don't want to read, leave the conversation you don't want to participate in, and so forth. Only you can protect yourself from content you don't wish to experience, provided that content is labeled as such. It is nobody else's responsibility to do so.
If you couldn't guess by now, I voted don't break them up. Write what you want to write - the author's most important rule!
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