If you're being scammed, cyber bullied, and harassed, please block and report those users. It's one of the fastest ways we find people who are problems in the community. Sometimes it's the only way, I'm not joking.

I'll also say that calling this site a "dating site" has always seemed weird to me. It's kindof a dating site, but not a dedicated one, so it doesn't do it particularly well. It's a social community, more like what MySpace was 20 years ago. There's arts and forums and chat around a common theme. I think that anyone who expects it to be a robust dating site is always going to be disappointed. It works better as a place to make friends and hang out, read stories, contribute to the discussion. I mean if they wanted to, they could have called it Reality Feeder, but you know...

But seriously, report bad users. It's the flag in their profile.

Definitely review the site rules about advertising (fantasyfeeder.com/about/rules) if you have questions, but essentially a link to a non-commercial personal website is ok, but there have been people banned in the past year for linking to personal webpages that hosted malicious scripts, etc.

That's totally fair, and most (not all) premium authors here see pretty modest payouts. However, most self-published authors on any platform see pretty modest payouts. I don't think niche kink material is the exception to the rule. If you want to get rich, independent author is not the easymode path.

What's nice about this platform, however, is that the author/creator owns 100% of their work, can publish it wherever else they choose (there's no exclusivity), and you can remove it at any time. It's yours.

If you look at the terms of service for ALL of the competing sites that cater to specifically weight gain fiction, you are giving the rights to your IP to them when you upload it, for them to do with as they choose. This is whether you're selling the material or not.

Other platforms may allow the author to retain 100% rights to the material, but restrict how it can be republished (KDP does this, for example).

And other sites that allow for monetization just really aren't friendly to the subject matter and will dungeon your content so it's hard to find algorithmically. It's not the most popular kink once you get outside of places like this. It gets lumped in with eating disorders and abuse and to the dungeon you go.

The long and the short is that there is nothing stopping you from posting premium content here, and in other places, per the terms of service of Fantasy Feeder. Other platforms may require exclusivity, so you'll have to check the contracts.

And at first, it doesn't feel like you make a lot here, it's true. But if you get a number of stories up and grow a fanbase and stay on top of it, it sneaks up on you.

I'll also say that if you have a story that you think will sell a hundred copies (and not just have 100 people look at it on KU), you absolutely should consider Draft2Digital or something like that. That would be a huge achievement for this genre. Many selfpub authors are thrilled to sell 5 copies!

The one thing you can't do is use this site or your stories as advertising for other websites. So you're welcome to post full stories here and full stories elsewhere, but posting a teaser here and saying "if you want to read the rest, click here to buy my book/join my patreon/etc" is not allowed.

I agree with everything you just said, with the caveat that "incel" doesn't mean someone who isn't having sex, which is kinda what you implied earlier. It's someone who isn't having sex AND actively blames it on other forces, mostly women. You can't divorce the two things.

Someone can choose to be celibate, or someone can be going through a "dry spell" or whatever you want to call it, or someone can just not have the social skills and confidence to go out and find a partner, but that doesn't make any of them incel. Incel-dom is pretty fundamentally a misogynist ideology.

But calling any random bigot "incel" cheapens the terms, and calling random people who aren't having sex incels is inaccurate and insulting. I agree with that completely.

It means the user has been on in the past few hours, or maybe the past day? Something like that.