Before I dive deeper into it, I need to clarify one thing: Using this system would be completely voluntary for both preds and prey! I'm not suggesting a feature that could be used to troll people, that would become an annoyance to users that don't want it, let alone be a security vulnerability. That said, people who chose to use this would willingly subject themselves to temporary restrictions on the site, as well as allow other users to temporarily control their forum abilities... though that's the whole point of it! The idea is to create something fun for people who want more practical vore experiences, but not pose a problem for those who just want to use the forum without weird side effects.
So what this is all about; I've been thinking about a vore plugin that could be created for this forum. A user who wants to be prey can invite another user to be their pred and vice-versa... if the user chooses to allow such invitations for either role in their account settings, where normal users can also specify whether they wish to see restrictions applied to other preys. A maximum amount of time the status may last would be agreed upon, which should range between a few hours minimum to a few days maximum... the prey gets released either when this interval expires, or if the predator wants to let them go earlier. A user becomes eaten once the invitation is reviewed and approved by the other person! When eaten, a user would experience various restrictions and side effects... some generic while others controlled by the predator (kind of like RLV for Second Life). Here is a list of suggested effects:
- Labeling: First and foremost, the users would be publicly labeled as the pred and prey of one another, both in posts and on their profile pages! For prey: The avatar and username of the predator would appear above their own, in a special panel titled "predator of" to avoid confusion... their username grayed and strikeout-ed to empathize on them being gone or replaced / owned by their pred (similar to banned users). For predators: The prey would be listed in a special section for preys located under their user data, where all users currently eaten by that person are shown in order as their avatar + username.
- Data replacement: The prey avatar is optionally replaced with one designated by the predator for preys... for example, your avatar can become an image of their character with a bloated belly! The same could be done for your signature, which could be replaced by a text your pred applies to their preys... maybe even your username and title? To avoid abuse, the prey would review these changes before accepting to be eaten.
- Theme: The prey's forum theme would be replaced. If by default you're using the light blue "prosilver" for instance, you'll instead switch to a theme selected by the predator for their preys. Currently the forum only has prosilver, so someone would have to create a new theme for this purpose... ideally a dark reddish one that simulates the environment of a stomach, and will give prey the feeling that everything changed once they've been eaten!
- Post hiding: Prey may only see the forum posts of users who are eaten by the same predator, and / or those of their predator. Other posts will be: Either forcefully hidden with the message "you may only read the posts of your predator" (bad idea as it's too restrictive and might be taking it too far), either hidden behind a spoiler the user must click to load the panel (acceptable but might get annoying over time), either the fonts of the post are made smaller and transparent to make them harder to read whereas the avatar and signature of that post are hidden (the most gentle approach). The exact same effect would apply to normal users when it comes to prey's posts... if of course they enable the option to see restrictions on people who get eaten, and obviously not the case for guests.
- Post approval: Whenever a prey creates a new topic or posts a reply, the predator must review it and approve it. The predator basically becomes a moderator for the prey, and decides when they may post anything.
I'm sure a lot more ideas can be added, but these are the basics I thought of. Although I figure some users will find this dangerous or just a source of grief and complaints, I believe an optional system to simulate vore and implied restrictions would be very fun if done properly! I'd like to hear your ideas and if you support this, especially if the mods might ever agree to adding any such thing. The online vore world needs more ways in which you can do this sort of stuff