Who We Are
TAY2 is a community devoted to helping authors and content creators have a place to let their voice be heard. No matter your background, TAY2 is here to provide a welcoming, friendly, receptive atmosphere for you to workshop ideas and posts. First and foremost TAY2 is a blog site where anyone is welcome to contribute. The overarching goal of TAY2 is to increase community engagement through continuous, diverse content and posts. The backbone of the blog is the Open Forum. This post is a place to sound off, meet and converse with other members of the site, and just talk amongst yourselves.
TAY2 is comprised of any individual with a keyboard. We welcome all authors to contribute content to the site. When you first join you will be assigned the role of “contributor” and your posts must be verified by an administrator. After 1 or 2 articles you’ll be promoted to Author and will then be free to post whatever you want (within reason)! Although attempts are made to create content that appeals to all, TAY2.org is not intended for users under the age of 13. If you are under the age of 13 and wish to register and use the site, please furnish parental consent (an email is fine) to admin@tay2.org. For more information, reference the Privacy Policy link in the footer.
Why TAY2?
With so many options for social networking why should you stick around this one? It’s a good question and one which we live or die by. For starters, this site has been designed from the ground up to be as accessible and welcoming as possible. From our Open Forums (drop in and say hi!), to our design, we aim to bring in as broad an audience as we can. Next, while all the big tech companies have social media sites, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, etc., something has been lost since the pioneering days of the internet. That smaller, intimate connection between like-minded peers. We aim to recreate that feeling of when you first stumbled on MySpace – here was someplace special, personal. This space is your space. It’s not space you rent out from Mark in exchange for your personal information. Unlike those companies, we will never sell your data. This site is paid up until the end of 2023. We currently don’t need money – go buy yourself something nice. If ever a need for money arises this will be discussed as a community prior to any fundraising efforts. We’re not going to just start throwing ads in your face without discussing alternative options first.
What Content is Allowed on the Site
In order to keep TAY2 as welcoming to as broad a range of users as possible, we ask that strict NSFW content be curtailed, or at the bare minimum containing fair warning prior to the content of the article if you believe that it’s a story worth publishing. NSFW content exceptions are made in the case where a full story may involve the content in an organic way. Articles for the sake of posting NSFW will be disallowed. This wordage is intentionally vague in that we’re not trying to stifle anyone from discussing content that is NSFW (there are some interesting articles to be written!) we just want to make sure that we – if you have questions ask in a forum, private message either Zarnyx or Aikage, or ask in the discord server (link in the footer).
We are primarily a gaming related site but that does not mean that content must be gaming related. You are free to write any article that comes to mind provided it does not contain the following:
- Hate Speech
- Racism
- Homophobia
- Transphobia
- Denigrating language towards a protected group including but not limited to (age, sex, citizenship, religious beliefs)
- Personal attacks or doxxing
- Gore or realistic depictions of violence
- Sexualized content involving any persons under the age of 18, or legal age where you live. Whichever is higher.
Who are you really?
Ok you got us. The story goes that once upon a time there was a sub-blog of Kotaku.com named Talk Among Yourselves, TAY. The owner of Kotaku and all of the sister sites (Gawker, Lifehacker, etc.) was basically sued into oblivion after publishing allegedly unscrupulous articles about Peter Thiel and Hulk Hogan (is this real life?). Gawker media was sold to Univision, then sold again, and finally G/O media purchased Gawker and decided to shutter the sub-blogs for legal liability reasons. Needing an ark to keep the community going, TAY2 was born. Free from the shadow of Kotaku and without the limitations of the Kinja platform, TAY2 was able to establish its own identity The site was created, designed, destroyed, rebuilt, and currently maintained as a passion project by a small handful of site users.