I have a scene like that too
Oh, I get that now, thanks!
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Sorry but in Harry Potter is still abuse clearly described…he lives under stairs instead of having normal bedroom and as punished so thay do nto give him food. also trhere is a lot of hate spech coming from the adults in the family which are 100% verbaly abusive.
Abuse is not only beating and physical abuse. Harry was abused verbally and neglected and it was directly shown in the books and in the film…even the torturing by Profesor umbridge who was makinf the children to cause selfharm with that pen was in the book and in the fillm - you realy do not see this as showing abuse?.
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What I’m saaaying is that episode guidelines from DAY ONE have been “must be appropriate for audiences 13+” and since DAY ONE their stories have NOT been appropriate for ages 13+.
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And yet they’re changing things now. Live in the present, not in the past, dude. 
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Actually, I read Liz’s comment very carefully and they admit that they themselves are going to be altering/editing/ and maybe even remove stories and covers of their OWN stories. So it seems they recognize that we ALL messed up and we ALL need to fix it.
It’s being fixed… let’s just be happy about that 
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But I still don’t get the reson why they make guidelines and then they don’t follow them
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Double standards, at it’s finest, oof.
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They’ve already said they’re going to start applying this to their own stories. Y’all really need to find something better to complain about.
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I just wonder if they really plan to change all there featured stories. Like they have a lot and all of them need to be fixed to adhere to the guidelines they make. I think people out skeptical and frustrated because they have never followed there own guidelines. So now they have made them even stricter and have over 100 stories. Are they really going to go back in change all of them , besides just changing the cover ? Time will tell but previous examples have showed us they will not.
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No, it’s called they’re taking responsibility.
I mean we can only trust they will. 
Harry Potter was never “beaten” or was described as being “beaten” physically in the story…
He was treated poorly, yes… but there was NO description of physical violence… period.
To develop the idea that someone is “abused” or “abusive” scenes like:
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Being forced to be a housemaid for your stepsisters (Cinderella)
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Sleeping in a makeshift crappy room under the steps (Harry Potter)
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Working your butt off to make money only so your Foster parent can steal your pay (Annie)
Are necessary to help the reader understand that the MC’s are being “mistreated”
In order to establish that relationship and the characters personalities… examples/scenes need to be made like this. The reader will understand, then, who is “evil” and who we need to have “pity on” and root for.
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After holding double standards for a few years.
They’ve got the shits because people from the community have called them out on it. Good on them, about time.
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Realistically I don’t see them making all these changes in 30 days. But time will tell 
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I suggest you learn to be happier and accept this as an overall good thing instead of trying to be uselessly negative.
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I know but before they updated their guideline they didn’t follow the old ones.
And that was the past. This is the present.
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Again - there is not only beating that is considered as abuse - all what you descrisebe IS ABUSE.
I do agree that showing that he was mistreated was esential. But if no parental abuse is alowed in episode you can’t show even this because also this is parental abuse. and thwere is now 0 tolertance for it as it seems.
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