Consent flag / command.

[Sephiroto]

Visible flags are no fun, but something that echos on command could be nice.  Something like "consent test" as described below might do.

<100hp|200mv|130stn|running|standing|before-dawn>
consent test

The tall, muscular man consents to <X, Y>.
The short, curvy woman consents to <Z>.
The lanky, Sephiroto consents to <none>.
The cool, Kronibas consents to <all>.


If you were to set these consents on chargen, everyone gets a chance to consciously make a decision about what degree of nasty they are willing to be exposed to.  In a hypothetical situation where I may want to do an act that exceeds someone's consent threshold, I could then ask them to double-check their settings.   Then continue as planned, or tone down the sex/violence based on the next consent test.

The strengths of this implementation are that it allows users to set their thresholds early and get a list of all local players' thresholds without any oocs.  Additionally, built in immortal logging could toss a message to the staff to help them monitor abuse and adherence to the terms of play.

[Lizzie]

Hey if y'all want to do that, fine by me. As long as there's another flag:

The Lizzified PC has not set her consent flag at all one way or another, and requires that you ask every single time.

[manipura]

In theory I like the idea of the consent flag being suggested...but I'm with Lizzie on this one.
Though I may consent to X and Y most times and consent (but FTB) Z most times, maybe -this time- I'm logging out soon.  Or maybe my PC has a secret reason for behaving differently around a certain PC in the room or maybe today I just don't feel like committing to everything that consenting to X will entail.  Or maybe at chargen I set my consent to one thing, but due to events with my PC those have changed and I haven't updated the info.
I'd rather be asked every time and I really don't find it jarring or immersion breaking to have another PC give a quick OOC to make sure everyone's on the same page.