God damn amateurs . This has happened to me multiple times and it didn ' t even occur to me when thinking on this topic haha <| sep |> So , OP , I ' m not sure if you are even still around here since you haven ' t responded to , well , anything said in response to you . I want to preface this by saying that I think you mean well . but that being said , I ' m going to fisk this a bit and make some specific points in response to specific things you ' ve said . Ahem . One might claim that these aspects are meant to glorify humanity and that it ' s necessary to give humanity a villain , but that is flawed . You can showcase humanity ' s intelligence , compassion , reason , accomplishments without war , Imperialism , prejudice , or other problematic themes . This is true . It is also true that doing so is a valid way of doing it that resonates with the nearly 40 thousand readers in this forum . One ' s responsibility for doing so does not follow from the ability . and I would add to that , that there are aspiring authors here of many levels . An obvious conflict in the form of warfare is lowhanging fruit . QED . So , the question remains , how can we fix this ? We fix it by participating , if it ' s actually a problem . Stories that fail because they are poorly written , badly thought out , or inappropriate are not supported by the community , and writers fade away who aren ' t very good at it . I would speculate that you fall into that latter category since it seems you haven ' t actually contributed anything to this community other than this post . Worthwhile commentary follows nearly every story speculation on where the story is headed , discussion of its content , errata . you ' ll find these things in every single popular offering in this sub ' s history . I suspect you haven ' t read much of it , which is sad . There ' s a lot in this sub that ' s worth reading . When portraying aliens , examine what traits you ' re giving them . Could they possibly be offensive to minorities ? Are you i n t entionallyunintentionally using them as a smokescreen for racial stereotypes ? This is SJWspeak for think about what you ' re posting , because it might offend somebody that ' s looking for something to be offended by . As uctwelve and others have said , this is nonsense that isn ' t welcome here at all . Good writing makes the reader think , and thinking for some is by definition uncomfortable . I am surmising from your comments that , again , you fall into this category , and I encourage you to read more . Stories by definition also need to offer something for a reader ' s imagination to latch onto , and that is typically some element of the familiar . This does not mean that the familiar is intended to be offensive it ' s simply a starting point and little more . Stereotypes also have an important function in stories , by giving the story itself some shape and overall element of the familiar . Are the humans in your story merely standins for the West , or colonialism ? Are they portrayed as superior to other aliens in every way ? Does their influence in the story flow from their ability to destroy or exploit ? The West , and colonialism , is responsible for the medium you are using to communicate in , the tools you are using to access the Internet , and the Internet itself . Oikophobia over this point is nonsensical and laughable to those of us that don ' t share in an overburdened guilt for things beyond our control . If you ' re not prepared to live as a Bushman in Africa or an Australian aboriginal , then ignoring the acheivements and dominant culture of the West for its supposed sins is juvenile posturing and virtuesignaling . Neither has any place here . What message is your story sending ? Is it a xenophobic message , a prejudiced message ? To quote Freud , sometimes a cigar is just a cigar . Ascribing motives that have no basis in the author ' s intent is how you get things like Dee Snider dressing down the PMRC . It ' s silly at best , and dangerously stupid and malevolent at worst . If you think something is problematic , say so in the comments . Elaborate on what it is that is sending you bad vibes . Oooor . follow the sub rules . Bad vibes is a metaphorical rephrasing of I need a safe space , because this story made me uncomfortable . If you want a Tumblr echochamber , this probably isn ' t the sub for you . If you ' re here to demand we acquiesce to your demands to not be offended . well . I am going to go out on a limb here and say that your browser probably has a Back button , which I encourage you to use . You ' ll find a safe space free from scary uncomfortable ideas wherever it is that they think such things are important . That place isn ' t here . Be sure to promote good and nonproblematic writing and vice versa . This is your power as a user and it should be used for the greater good . Left unsaid , but speaking quite loudly here is the ending to the second sentence , which reads something like , . as long as it agrees with what I think the greater good is . This sub doesn ' t have an Arbiter of Things That Are Okay , and if it ever did , most of the nearly 40 thousand subscribers would leave quickly . We write ideas that interest us . If those ideas don ' t interest you , there is nothing at all wrong with that I don ' t hang out in rtheredpill or rfeminism , but I also don ' t have the temerity to go there and lecture those subscribers on what acceptable content is . Report stories that are especially problematic if the former options aren ' t working . That brings me on to the final group that can do their part . Especially problematic . The fact that you believe that a story written by another anonymous person is problematic for you , by itself , should tell anybody with a pulse what your intention here is . If I can ' t convince you to write the story my way , then I ' ll get somebody with more power than you to make you see it my way . The entire thought process behind this is repugnant to those of us that don ' t see Atlas Shrugged as a howto manual for society . Problematic content is not allowed , make it clear that this is rHFY ' s policy and will be enforced . This isn ' t HFY ' s policy , and as multiple mods have pointed out this time and many , many other times , it never will be . Ergo , it will not be enforced . Ever . Problematic content by itself fades off the front page pretty quickly . and the reason for this is very straightforward there are a lot of authors here , and there are a lot of stories that get posted . The ones that are better stories get upvoted . This is pretty self explanatory , remove content that is problematic . I ' m sure some may be against this , but if someone ' s using free speech to spread hatred and vitriolic ideas , that ' s not good . Ban users who habitually do use the genre to spread problematic ideas . Hatred and vitriolic ideas don ' t get spread here . Explored ? maybe . Again , the fact that you see ideas you disagree with as problematic and the solution to ban them as viable says pretty much everything that needs to be said . My inbox is always open and I would be willing to educate anyone whose willing on these topics . You have a ways to go before you ' re going to establish yourself as an authority on the subject , and your evident lack of tolerance for dissenting viewpoints makes education at your hands so unlikely as to be laughable . This is how we allow positive ideas to spread and prevent negative ones from taking root and poisoning our communities . No . We encourage positive ideas to spread by advocating them with examples . Over and over and over in this post you bemoan the lack of positive stories . I assure you , such stories would be more than welcome here if they ' re welldone , wellwritten , and interesting to read . The way to do that is participate . and believe it or not , your ideas in story content are valid as well as everything else here . Write stories that you would want to read . Post them . If they ' re good stories , they ' ll do well . Attempting to stifle those you don ' t agree with by fiat is not establishing the strength of your own ideas . it , in essence , says , My ideas aren ' t good enough for me to defendI am incapable of advocating my own ideas , so you have to be silenced that my ideas may spread . That , I assure you , is not something that is welcome now , nor will it ever be , and for that I am truly thankful . I challenge you to put your money where your mouth is , so to speak . Write things that you want to read , and bounce them off the community . If they ' re good stories , they ' ll do well . If you aren ' t willing to do that , then nobody here is ever going to be able to listen to the ideas that you ' re unwilling to articulate .