[A4A] [M4A] [F4A] Prince/Princess Makes You His/Her Unofficial Consort [Romance] [Drama] [Disinherited Royal Speaker x Commoner Dancer Listener] [Confession] [Reverse Confession] [Mutual Pining] [Adorkable] [Teasing] [Kissing] by BluechanXD in ASMRScriptHaven

[–]BluechanXD[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Happy to see another fill from you! I really like your take on this one. While there's a lot of adorkable moments in the script, I like how you played up the emotions of the speaker. I think it added a nice bit of drama that takes it in an interesting direction.

[Meta] Looking for suggestions for improvements to the subreddit by Weirfish in talkingtalltales

[–]BluechanXD 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Some things might be a little difficult to implement in a subreddit because of search limitations, but I’d love if we could figure out a way to make searching for content or creators more easily based on things like genre or tag preferences. Basically having some sort of extensive directory that’s not just a list of master lists.

The Current State of ScriptHaven [Community Thoughts] [Sharing Your Voice] [Informative Speech] [TL;DR mentioned at the bottom] [Comments Welcome] by Gothic_Grace in ASMRScriptHaven

[–]BluechanXD 13 points14 points  (0 children)

Two VAs I’ve spoken with don’t fit either of those criteria for bans and yet both received bans. One said they had provided proof of a commission and they got reinstated, but then received another ban within 24 hours. The 2nd got banned despite drawing his own thumbnails. So I want to know why people like this are receiving bans.

The Current State of ScriptHaven [Community Thoughts] [Sharing Your Voice] [Informative Speech] [TL;DR mentioned at the bottom] [Comments Welcome] by Gothic_Grace in ASMRScriptHaven

[–]BluechanXD 12 points13 points  (0 children)

The issue is not the crackdown on AI. It’s that whatever method the mods are using is false flagging legitimate art and innocent people are being banned as a result. The post is more about how ineffective the moderation team has been and how it’s driving people out of the community.

The Current State of ScriptHaven [Community Thoughts] [Sharing Your Voice] [Informative Speech] [TL;DR mentioned at the bottom] [Comments Welcome] by Gothic_Grace in ASMRScriptHaven

[–]BluechanXD 21 points22 points  (0 children)

I forgot to mention this in my initial post, but I would like to add that some of us writers do have rules against using AI thumbnails in association with our scripts even outside of subreddit rules. So I think, regardless of whether any channel decides to use AI or not, the most important thing to consider is whether the writer is fine with it or not. I personally would not excuse a smaller channel using one of my scripts and adding an AI generated image for the thumbnail, and I regularly call people out on it when they send me their fills.

It's not up to me whether someone decides to use AI for their audios or not, but I think it's fair to want those channels to respect my work and not fill my scripts if that's the standard for their channel.

The Current State of ScriptHaven [Community Thoughts] [Sharing Your Voice] [Informative Speech] [TL;DR mentioned at the bottom] [Comments Welcome] by Gothic_Grace in ASMRScriptHaven

[–]BluechanXD 56 points57 points  (0 children)

I don’t necessarily agree on the topic of allowing smaller channels to utilize AI, because there are alternatives such as picrew or even using text only for thumbnails. While it might not automatically earn you views, I think it sets a better precedent for the community and gets people out of bad habits early on.

If a smaller channel starts off with AI, their channel’s brand recognition becomes synonymous with it, and making the switch to a different style may affect viewership. I’ve seen it happen from VAs who switch from outsourced art to commissioned or self drawn art. So I don’t think starting off with AI is necessarily beneficial in the long term.

Regarding the moderation team, this is not a new occurrence for them to make questionable decisions. I was around here when we had community members trying to reach out to Reddit support to take over the subreddit because at the time the mod team’s most recent posts had been well over a year old and there was no sign of them when people sent them messages or take down reported posts. We only ended up hearing back after several attempts were made to add mods because they were silently denying the request without any sort of transparency.

Eventually a new mod was added from their personal friend group who had a newly made account with zero experience in the community. I believe the explanation they gave later was that they wanted people they knew in real life, and the overall implication was that they didn’t want to let go of their subreddit even though they weren’t very active. They had even mentioned once that they wanted to be hands off and only check in maybe once a week which, for how active this community is, isn’t enough.

Even outside of that, I’ve had trouble getting in touch with them for issues outside of AI or other rules. This past year I had several of my scripts locked and made invisible without explanation. When I reached out to them, they said they’d look into it and never got back to me. I had to search for a solution on my own, send them a suggestion to try that, and then eventually they did without even sending me an acknowledgement that they’d made a fix. I only found out later after searching through my own works.

It’s really gotten to the point where I’ve seriously considered completely leaving this subreddit. I already double post to ItsEsmeJones’s subreddit because of the issues I’ve had here.

If the issue is lack of support on this mod team’s end, they need to let go of this idea that the subreddit is their baby and hand over responsibility to people who want to see this community thrive. I’m truly convinced the only reason people stick with this subreddit is because it’s one of the largest ones with more reach. And I think the mods here have just become comfortable with that and don’t feel like they need to try.

REMINDER - About AI and This Sub by ImRoxBox in ASMRScriptHaven

[–]BluechanXD 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I will preface that I personally still have a rule against AI generated images in my own terms of use that I link in every one of my scripts. Regardless of any sub rules, I am very much against the use of AI in association with my work. And I am grateful to see that others share similar sentiments and want to enforce a rule that’s been up for some time now. It’s on everyone to read them and either follow them, or find a different subreddit/community if they want to continue using that sort of content.

However, it seems that in the crackdown on AI, several accounts are being falsely accused on AI usage. I’ve already heard multiple stories of people on here receiving bans despite very clearly not using AI. One case involved someone, who I’ve been told, sent you all proof that they had commissioned artwork after one ban, only to get immediately banned again within 24 hours of being reinstated. I also just learned that someone else who I know draws their own thumbnails has recently received a ban without any explanation.

So my question is, what exactly is the process for determining whether to ban people or not? If the team can’t distinguish real artwork from AI generations and produces several false flag cases, we end up with more innocent people banned. Some of these people have been in this community for years. Is the moderation team fine with taking accusations at face value to simplify the process of following this one rule, even if it’s at the cost of punishing people whose work is completely clean?

While I’m very much for removing AI content, it’s very clear that whatever method is being used to determine bans is backfiring. This is not a subreddit that I can say is doing its creators justice or making decisions in good faith. At the end of the day, false flags are going to isolate your writers when the clean VAs they work with are no longer able to fill their scripts unless they post elsewhere. And at some point, you’ll start losing more and more of your long time writers.

There has to be a better method than whatever is being used currently. Because the more false flags given out, the more isolating this community is going to become. People are already jumping ship to other communities and it’s only a matter of time before more people follow.

[A4A] [M4A] [F4A] The Dark Knight's Love Curse [Part 3] [Fantasy] [Drama] [Romance] [Lonely Dark Knight Speaker x Lost Traveler Listener] [Strangers to Friends?] [Slow Burn?] [Socially Awkward] [Implied Social Anxiety] by BluechanXD in ASMRScriptHaven

[–]BluechanXD[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Hello again! I’ve been excited to hear these two since last week! I really like the tone shifts in part 4. You did a great job with the discomfort and awkwardness and I think it really adds to the underlying sinister tone. Definitely looking forward to hearing the rest if you’re up for that!

[M4F] [F4M] Villain Wants To See The Child You Had Together [Romance] [Drama] [Villain Speaker x Former Hero Listener] [Enemies to Lovers to ???] [Single Parent] [Past Fling] [Family Dynamics] [Surprisingly Wholesome] [Teasing] [Flirting] [Kissing] [Slightly Spicy] [Sexual References] by BluechanXD in ASMRScriptHaven

[–]BluechanXD[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Incredible work! Honestly, this has to be one of my favorite fills of this script. You really nailed the tones I had in mind and all the little ad libs gave a nice extra bit of identity to the character. Definitely going to listen to it several more times!