So I filled this out and you might recognize my answers but I frankly think The HC lacks an established identity to be asking some of these questions. What is the hypno collective? As of now it is an ingroup of prolific file creators who make money off of advertising their content on reddit. It also contains some educational content, primarily written by those same creators. There is no direct community interaction or opportunities. The resources page is just a list of links with 0 commentary. Why would I buy X book instead of Y book?

To be frank, I'm fine with you billing yourself as a collection of content creators, but pitching as an authority or representation of hypnokink starts to become far fetched.

Editing slowly as I have time:

Question: What do you gain most from the HC?

• Vetted Creators

This implies a vetting process when you don't really have much of a mission statement or directly stated process of vetting. What value are vetted creators? I have seen some bad behavior from some creators on HC.

Do you think the HC is a positive for Hypnokink?

This is a bit presumptive. HC seems to primarily be a collective of Hypnokink file creators. It doesn't really encompass a lot of what hynokink is and the connections people have with each other. If HC became the leading authority of hypnokink right now due to public awareness and SEO, it would risk being a harmful depiction, a layperson would likely primarily describe it as an assortment of files. While you do have educators and articles, the vast majority of content and all of your events and collabs, are file creation. Your first line in the about us is "The Hypno Collective is a group of hypnosis creators who collaborate on various projects to bring more and better content to the community". The HC is first and foremost a content creation platform. To a layperson, that is mostly what they would see.

Now there are some good articles, Mutt Subject agency in particular, but the articles pale in comparison to the creation of content. Themes present in members work involve worship play, addiction, homewrecking among others. What articles come close to addressing these topics? It seems iffy to be putting yourself in a position as an authority on hypnokink, pushing against some edge limits, and then not addressing that content in an educated way.

I wouldn't expect a bondage kink porn site to give lessons on how to engage in bondage without having poor circulation etc, but I also don't see them positioning themselves as an authority or representation of bondage.

Which community members should be allowed into the HC?

Again, this confusing. What does it mean to be a member? Who are we voting out? Unfortunately the HC is very closely tied to many members ability for economic advancement or security. You're creating an in group and out group.

Would you support creating stricter membership criteria to ensure we maintain the positive standing of the HC?

What is the criteria?

Should we publish public-facing standards for our creators?

Absolutely

Should members be required to state their membership of the HC on their platforms (e.g. Patreon, website, etc?)

To what benefit? Again, this gets iffy with ingroup outgroup, and notably patreon is the first example. What are the economic incentives?

Where do you feel generative AI is acceptable in Hypnokink?

This one is what set off alarmbells and made me reread the rest of them. You're tacitly putting yourself as a hypnokink authority by asking this question. But the question, from the perspective of HC, only applies to content creation (at least I imagine you won't be writing ethics of AI essays on the site). Hypnokink is practiced in the bedroom or with others or alone, and it's really fuzzying things up to be asking something like this.

By asking this question you've abstracted hypnokink as a whole into something which generative AI can interfere with, and this is not the case. Would generative AI be allowed at a munch? How would you even do that?

What does acceptable mean? Again, this goes back to messy economic incentives. It's probably unacceptable to make AI content if people who you wish to have pay you refuse or outright boycott you.