Suggestion: Pride Stamps

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Suggestion: Pride Stamps

Postby ShootingStarcatcher » Tue Sep 02, 2025 4:51 am

Hello! I have posted about this in the stamp request thread several times since 2017 (8 years ago) and it has not gotten resolved or even acknowledged by any site staff in a satisfactory way.
I really think we need pride stamps for stamp collections. It is honestly ridiculous as someone who has been on this site for 15 years that there are no pride stamp options. Every answer I have gotten from staff has been vague and made no sense.
This site has a large queer population and I really appreciate the pride pets we get every year now, it’s so sweet, but that begs the question why we can’t have specific sexuality pride stamps for our stamp collections?
It’s starting to make me question how much staff are really allies to our community. Pets are all well and good but they don’t have explicit labels so part of me is concerned staff is trying to not rile up the (very substantial) homophobic population on this site.
Just something to consider. I love chicken smoothie, I have been here for my entire childhood and early adulthood, it would mean the world to feel listened to.
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Re: Suggestion: Pride Stamps

Postby Wookieinmashoo » Tue Sep 02, 2025 11:38 pm

I don't think it's just pride stamps not getting made, it's all stamps. I noticed this about a month ago. Other than the event ones, I don't think we have had any new stamps in a while. Judging by the dog year range for the dogs, we may have not gotten new, non-event, stamps since 2017. I don't think this has anything to do with a minority of people who are anti-pride on site. The pets that have been released have had them specifically labeled as Pride by site staff and on the adoption page and archives. We just haven't had any new stamps added in a long time.

I did another look and it looks like the last pets released that were featured were from 2018

Until they start making non-event stamps again, maybe some of the pride flag items could work? I've seen people use those
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Re: Suggestion: Pride Stamps

Postby ShootingStarcatcher » Wed Sep 03, 2025 2:33 pm

Hmm interesting, tbh I haven’t been super active on CS in 5+ years but I do check in enough! I guess the presence of the stamp suggestion thread indicated they were still actively making stamps?
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Re: Suggestion: Pride Stamps

Postby Celozon » Wed Sep 03, 2025 4:21 pm

As mentioned, it is more that the stamp collection just hasn't been updated with non-event stamps in a while. From the looks of the site news the last non-event stamp update was late 2020. Site staff had been making pride themed pets for years at that point, but they were just made more as vague references to it and we didn't start releasing pets/items explicitly for pride till 2021, so I'd expect the only reason there aren't pride stamps is we weren't 'officially' making pride stuff till after the latest stamp update.

I would also like to stress that the majority of site staff are LGBT+ themselves and have absolutely no reason to not want to include such stamps. You correctly identify that a large portion of the site playerbase is LGBT+, and site staff are selected from the playerbase so naturally the staff are of similar makeup as the playerbase (if not an even moreso since any portion of the site who are anti-LGBT+ aren't especially likely to apply for staff, much less be chosen), I just really dislike what is implied by just referring to staff as 'allies' as if many are not also a part of these groups (and thats speaking for myself as well, I've been either GH or GM on this site for 10 years now, I've made pride pets myself)

And I just would also like to add that the pets released for Pride /are/ intended as explicit references, this year in June pets were released for Pride separate from the regular monthly releases (before now Pride pets were mixed in with the June monthly releases) so there is also a Pride section in the archives for those pets. There were also flag releases in 2021 and 2022 which list the specific identities and orientations for the flags specifically so that users can display them on pets or in their signature. I think this makes it pretty clear where the site stands on this tbh.

Just so this doesn't get misinterpreted, I want to make it clear that I would very much like to see some pride stamps released, I don't think there is any problem with asking for that to happen. I also don't mean to imply that releasing other pride stuff is some kind of excuse for not releasing stamps, I bring the other releases up cause I want to make in clear that staff have been and continue to be invested in releasing things for Pride. I do think though that this thread might be better suited as being a suggestion for a stamp update as a whole, which would include Pride stamps among others. There are things missing from the stamp collection which are also worth including (I don't think there are any stamps for Disability Pride yet for example, even though we've gotten pets and items for it), I think the stamp collection is just simply in need of a major update overall.
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Re: Suggestion: Pride Stamps

Postby ShootingStarcatcher » Thu Sep 04, 2025 12:06 pm

Thank you for your response Celozon! I honestly have had some bad experiences here with homophobic users and staff or mods not backing me up so I probably started too aggressively. Plus I think CS in general not making official pride pets until 2021 felt a little…. Late to me but obviously I really appreciate it and I love them all, they’re so wonderfully designed!
I agree about a general stamp update, I think that is needed and especially the disability pride stamps are such a good idea
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Re: Suggestion: Pride Stamps

Postby Wookieinmashoo » Thu Sep 04, 2025 11:22 pm

ShootingStarcatcher wrote:! I guess the presence of the stamp suggestion thread indicated they were still actively making stamps?


Not to be a downer but we have a full suggestion section that, other than changing some items or renaming things, really seems kind of pointless when even some really simple suggestions just sit there for years. Like increasing the contrast of the page select when trading
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