This is very special, because it is beyond me.
What I like most people here won't admit to liking, because of sexual hang-ups and the GR violation. Tickling is a GR violation.
I have no idea what you think most people here like, but from my experience most of them seem to admit it often. They like tickling. In many different forms. They may not like the sort of tickling YOU like, but they all seem to find a common basis in liking tickling in one of its forms.
I have no idea what you mean by Tickling is a GR.
A GR violation is a pretty simple thing. It's when you insult a fellow forum member in specific. When you debate about the person and not their thoughts.
Tickling in and of itself cannot be a GR.
Attempting to fit tickling into the GR boundaries and using diversity in subterfuge of accountability is an error in judgement and a lack of accountability. Those new companies since 2000 are more of the same. You can put a ribbon on a turd (or sock, or nylon, or whatever)... but it is still a turd.
So you are saying that no company since the ones we had in '00 has done anything of non-turd-ness?
You write off Last Laugh, Tickle Chicks, Tickle Abuse, SilverCherry, and a half dozen others, all of which have brought new things to the tickling community in the past decade.
Things were best for you when we had: Magic Touch, TC, Paradise, Harmony, ANA, and FM? That was 2000.
Okay, that is your choice. But simply because you don't like something doesn't make it bad or a turd. It makes it different.
By not allowing clips that have nothing to do with tickling, you'd be considerate of others.
We created the non-tickling clip subforum for just such clips. That keeps them clear of the tickling clip forum, and is fairly considerate over all in our eyes.
Instead of copying failing trends, somebody just might do something different. There would be a standard that creates art rather than "Jack-Off Material".
Again, I've seen a lot of 'different' in the past 10 years. I'm not sure what you'd think of as different. Examples?
What is the 'standard' that you see as a proper bar to be set? The industry circa 2000? What is this goal that todays producers should reach for?
Have you ever tickled a woman, Myriads??
I do believe it has happened on occasion.
Surely you must get involved in threads of suspect tickling clips to view for yourself what all the drama is about. And if you did, you'd notice incongruencies between touches and reactions. Either you do not get involved or you don't know what you are doing, so default to being nice because it gains favor. Defaulting to being nice is the best way to cover one's ass and excuse incompetence.
I'm going to assume that when you say 'suspect tickling clip' you mean clips that have some substandard tickling depiction in them?
If that is the case, I don't get involved in such debates. For a very simple reason, It's not my, or my staffs job to judge media that is posted here beyond if it contains minors or is copyright protected. We leave it to our adult users to make up their own minds if they want to buy any given clip or not based on their own opinions. I personally feel that most folks know what they like far better then I or any one else ever could.
People seem to figure out the good from the bad on their own. It was a lot harder back in 2000 by the way. Almost no preview clips at all, just a few stills for a video. Some of that innovation of the past 10 years has been preview clips.
And as always good and bad are subjective. Your bad is someone else's great.
Tickling Paradise has OddJob fooled by their nice manner, despite constant chicanery about HD resolution in their clips.
TP has apparently produces material that Oddjob enjoys, and serves his wants from it. That is all one can ask of a piece of media in my mind. Why a person likes a clip or not is specific to them.
We have folks here who think the old Popeye cartoon tickling clip where Olive Oyl is hanging off a building and Bluto rolls up her shoe and has at her foot, is the hottest thing ever. Yet it's just a cartoon, 100% made up and fake tickling, yet it is many folks idea of great.
Diversity is what our fetish is all about. And what the forum reflects.
Myriads
