Samildanach Posted:

I have a tiny peen, and do not like this proposal one bit.

The ridiculousness of e-peen goes perfectly fine with having a 30” long internet male reproductive organ. It doesn’t need to be “realistic” or “recentered” on an arbitrary length. Besides, even if all peens are multiplied by the same percentage, there will be some shift, if only from rounding… and the smaller peens get, the more important that rounding error will be for each of them.

Frankly, when anyone talks online about their male reproductive organ size, the rule of thumb is to divide by two and round down anyway. If you really want to screw with peens, do something really screwy. Change some peens to add girth and do the leaderboard by male reproductive organ volume. If the goal is to maintain an arbitrary peen limit and keep all relationships the same… as others have said, unnecessary and annoying.

The idea of girth and so on has been floated, and maybe down the road it could be revisited.

But I have to say, I’m often surprised at how conservative Flamebate posters claim to be when it comes to issues like this.

Yes, we’re thinking of standardizing it to what you’re calling an “arbitrary” range. Yet it’s more accurate to say that the current range is completely arbitrary, in that almost no thought went into the current numerical scheme.

Wouldn’t you rather be a part of a game and community that makes considered decisions about the aesthetics of such things, rather than cavalierly saying, “This is the way things are now, I enjoy this specific number for some reason, changing things is bad”?

I agree the huge numbers are somewhat funny. And I even said, we’ll get there again, or at least approach them, and it will remain funny. But hell, if this is a “game about trolling” (a claim I’ve denied many a time), isn’t it also funny to punish all you relative slackers with a substandard Peen size, while the true winners smirk at you from their John Holmesian perch?

Think about it.