Anon 01/25/2020 (Sat) 23:29:00 No.5382 del
Thankfully, this conversation could have ended up badly but because of hanging out there in the fair with my friends, having a nice time and changing my mood and the next answer from the staff member, things started to make sense. These replies have happened tonight so these are recent. However, I must quote him, not because of anything personal but because this analysis should be food for thought (and DO NOT STALK THIS USER, I swear, do not that, I am simply quoting him just to stay as loyal to the facts):

>Writing a story about fictional characters in a fictional situation is one thing, but it is quite another to take a real-life person and write fictionalized stories about that person attempting suicide. That's where the line is drawn; when you start putting real people in your suicide story. People who didn't give you permission to write about them, and who have no idea you're even writing this at all.
>People write about suicide all the time here. People used to submit stories with a similar plot to this (character attempts suicide, suicide fails because pony says don't do it, character has some kind of reaffirmation that life is worth living) all the time, but the central characters in such stories used to always be either overtly fictional entities or self-inserts by the author. Who, we can assume by virtue of them writing the story, is okay with it, and probably using the story-writing process to work through depression issues of their own. Which is fine.

so, take this as an advice (and a solid statement) and the defining line for writing stories about suicide. This is where the line is drawn for submitting any story about suicide. And here it´s where it comes the problem and he points it out clearly:

>if you hadn't gone so far out of your way to imply that the story was about DWK (a different cover art, no weird vague references to him in the description), this would have made zero fuss whatsoever.
>it still would have been beaten up a bit in ratings because, again, it feels like this exact story used to be 20% of our submission volume back in the day and I think the community here is just more bored by this premise at this point than it is outraged or offended.
>The issue isn't simply what you've written, it's the context you've put around it all that transforms a story I used to see on a daily basis five years ago into some pretty heavy stuff that most people strongly disapprove of.
remember that I posted the description and the cover image revealed a lot about his identity? Those tools helped this story to get revoked instead of helping for promoting the interest towards it. In short, I understood that the problem came from the way to market it, when it could have been perfectly disguised as any other average suicide story.

Also one should take the lesson that people might be tired of hearing these stories, so you are quite exposed to get beaten up with dislikes, not because of being offensive, but because of being a tiresome trend to see over there, particularly because of the trends in the early years. It confirms that this kind of stories were the rule back then despite not having experienced that.