i careubplay about you

Rather than accept the help of the original Cherubplay developer, the site has been basically rebuilt from the ground up, with more changes planned that I think will hurt the site in the long run, i.e. the front page getting axed in favor for a strictly Directory-based site. (Feel free to correct me if I'm wrong here, these are just my interpretations of the information I've gathered over both Tumblr and Discord.) Speaking of Directory, that leads me to my next concern, the constant changing and amending of the site's tagging rules. I get wanting to have a universal system for labeling things, it always sounds nice in theory. But for something as complex and, more times than not, situational as roleplaying, a one-size-fits-all system isn't always going to work. ESPECIALLY if the rules were initially designed with personal biases against certain fandoms in mind.

Part of what made Cherubplay so popular/successful, in my humble opinion, WAS the fact that it was just a site for people to roleplay anonymously with others from pretty much any fandom you could think of. There were no strict, vice-tight, ever changing tagging rules present like there are on Cherp currently. Looking over the current rules on the offical Cherp Tumblr, I can VERY QUICKLY see how easy it would be for someone migrating from such a loosely guided site like Cherubplay to get overwhelmed by the sheer volume and specificity of Cherp's Rules, possibly leading to them deciding that Cherp just isn't worth the effort of constantly having to refer to the rules over and over and over again just to post a single prompt in the Directory...