10/9/18 - [CLOSED] Moderator Recruitment
5 years ago
This is the Fall 2018 application form for the volunteer role of Moderator on the Fur Affinity website.
• Write complex system messages to users.
• Discuss and resolve complicated issues within a team.
• Follow policies and staff hierarchy.
• Have good and respectful communication.
• Be active and efficient in your role.
• Authority - Moderators are firm yet professional while performing their duties.
• Confidence - Moderators familiarize themselves with the rules and enforce them with ease.
• Improvisation - Moderators are flexible and able to adapt to different situations.
• Knowledge - Moderators stay up to date with all policies and master the ones in place.
If you believe that you can perform the roles and responsibilities listed above and possess the best traits of a Moderator, then you are encouraged to continue applying below. This form will be accessible until November 4th 2018. If you have applied on a past form, you may apply again now. You may only apply using this form once.
You will be contacted at the email address you provide in the form if we are interested or have further questions for you. If you have not received a response from us by January 1st 2019, then you were not selected this time, but we greatly appreciate you taking the time to apply and your interest in devoting time to maintaining our community.
You can apply to be a moderator by clicking here.
Roles and Responsibilities
• Respond to Trouble Tickets professionally.• Write complex system messages to users.
• Discuss and resolve complicated issues within a team.
• Follow policies and staff hierarchy.
• Have good and respectful communication.
• Be active and efficient in your role.
Best Moderator Traits
• Neutrality - Moderators respect the opinions of others and maintain a balanced perspective.• Authority - Moderators are firm yet professional while performing their duties.
• Confidence - Moderators familiarize themselves with the rules and enforce them with ease.
• Improvisation - Moderators are flexible and able to adapt to different situations.
• Knowledge - Moderators stay up to date with all policies and master the ones in place.
If you believe that you can perform the roles and responsibilities listed above and possess the best traits of a Moderator, then you are encouraged to continue applying below. This form will be accessible until November 4th 2018. If you have applied on a past form, you may apply again now. You may only apply using this form once.
You will be contacted at the email address you provide in the form if we are interested or have further questions for you. If you have not received a response from us by January 1st 2019, then you were not selected this time, but we greatly appreciate you taking the time to apply and your interest in devoting time to maintaining our community.
You can apply to be a moderator by clicking here.
If you happen to get selected by some chance and it is, don't be afraid to bail...
But seriously, best of luck, no doubt they need good conscientious people.
That's hophobic
sanic fans, furries, mlp , anime
we're all degenerates out in these streets! 👌👌👌👌👌
something like that
either way, anime is lumped up with degeneracy
w e r e a l l d e g e n e r a t e s h e r e
Toddlers are literally the offspring of humans, just because they're small doesn't mean they're not human :s
It's similar to the warped logic of some weebs who wanna fuck kids but don't wanna admit it so they cling to lolis who look like toddlers but are written as being 18+.
Besides, sonic doesn't even have any consistence. His arms ain't even blue.
It's the same way a car can become anthropomorphic if you slap some eyes and a mouth on it.
What? Exactly when and how did that ever happen?!
I'm curious, what do you think anthropomorphic means? Do you know the actual meaning of the word? Why do you think something has to speak English to be anthropomorphic? (Sorry if any of that comes across as rude, I don't mean it to, I'm genuinely asking)
To me, "talking animals" is not enough, they need the anatomical features I just mentioned for them to be considered anthropomorphic.
Liek.
Liek.
Liek.
It all depends on the situation. Most people look beyond the previous creation and apply the characteristics post creation, thus making them anthro in their minds. Is a dragon a dragon, or an anthropomorphic lizard? See what I mean? I guess I'm just splitting hairs here.
I mean, monkey's and chimpanzees in real life aren't anthropomorphic, they're just monkey's and chimpanzees. But, creating a character based on one, making it do human-like things etc. would make it anthro, right?
I know you're just giving an example but, the problem is, dragons aren't anthropomorphic lizards. In their "true form" or "animal form" most dragons aren't portrayed with human characteristics, therefore not making them anthropomorphic. They're surely based off lizards, but in order to be anthropomorphic, it has to have something human about it. It's all to do with human traits, not animal traits.
Which is quite what makes them unique, I haven't seen a single weeaboo or brony complain or cry whenever they were compared to us, the furries. It kinda shows the Sonic fanboys are extremely narcissistic.
-Peace
ayo, hol' up
>having an account in a furry site
>having a furry icon
>getting off to furry stuff
>watch furry stuff at least once every 24 hours
>having a furry name
Both of these are real instances by the way. In the UK they had a pride parade where the lesbian community got upset because the trans community was getting front stage and the reason they cited was that many trans members kept trying to get in bed with them, using such gross arguments as "I might look like a man but i'm a woman on the inside" because they had yet to go through with the surgeries. In the other case they wanted to turn it from "LGBT" to "LGT" I'd say the entire thing but honestly its hard to keep track of the multiple different ways the "entire" "LGBT" title means now.
I for one am Bisexual, but don't support LGBT because I've seen how they act, I didn't see others shouting about how they claimed they acted, I saw how they acted first hand and decided there is nothing healthy there.
These aren't isolated incidents. They USED to be isolated incidents. They're growing more frequent and incase hadn't noticed, there are people starting to turn against them. More each of these responses seem to have ignored the point I was making to attack me instead (gee I wonder if that might be my fucking POINT)
Not everyone is turning off the LGBT community train because of outside "anti-LGBT" individuals. It's literally shit that people are experiencing INSIDE THE FUCKING COMMUNITY that is turning people away. Jezus why the fuck do I need to spell that out. Oh. Right. because you tried to claim I hated gays, lesbians and trans people even though one of my points literally is trying to point out victimization OF LESIBANS.
I am also someone who identifies as bisexual, I lean on one side and it often leads to me being treated differently. Trans people have gotten mad if my gender preference doesn't fall to them, gay people get mad that I'm not just "fully gay", straight people get mad because you "can't have both", lesbians get mad because sometime's there's a rivalry between gays/lesbians. People are just angry, all over the board, every group has the angries. Punishing all LGBT folks because of the actions of a few is very silly I think, imagine if we did that with any other kind of group. Watch out for white men in their 20-30s, a few of them were serial killers so I don't support them any more.
If you can't masturbate on men, search for womens. There's Ziravore, FidchellVore, etc.
(Or go on my profile huehue)
>not bad not bad
>mnnf
🤔
Kabier, OP, was questioning the neutrality requirement, while the chain of thinking emoji was meant to be a jab at OP's hypocrisy. At least that's what I intended with my reply.
Alas, Furaffinity will never get out of the stone age.
So it would be a ban on all mentions of politics and religion except in cases that are fiction because some people are worldbuilders and I tend to fall in that category myself despite not posting much.
so while I wasn't specific on what I meant I literally mean what I am saying
I will use the sonic rule as an example. Sonic characters (except for blatantly underage ones, like cream) are supposed to be fine on the site. except the site has a yearly "purge" where moderators start banning sonic artists for 'underage' content even though the characters have, repeatedly, been stated to be fair and allowed on the site.
Yeah, I know, that would be too much to ask...
Always nice to see amazingly welcoming people ( sarcasm )
No room.
I swear you take every single chance to make anything possible about you even if you're being an absolute hypocrite in the process.
I'm actually surprised anyone takes the two of you seriously anymore after the mountain of shit thats come from both your mouths.
Gee wiz I wonder why people have an issue with moderation. FA is 15 years behind because that is the kind of behavior that gets attention.
If you actually gave a damn about improving this platform, you wouldn't be trying to strawman every Popufur that dares challenge the status quo. Hunting for racist bigots? Look to yourself first before projecting on others.
That would make sense if we saw many popufurs being chasen for that same reason. But in this journal the only one is you.
Don't even try to think you have any sway on this site buddy
When you lack any competency or integrity, resort to calling everyone slightly less left than you a threat to your existence. Considering mods already use their questionable authority to 'identify ties to hate groups'. I myself have had imposters pose as me on Telegram trying to manipulate the new rules into false flags.
Complaints are completely warranted. FA decided that it's their obligation to enforce political bias when it's a task no other company has been able to control effectively. They either need to be consistent and ban those promoting Antifa, or ignore politics entirely and stick to cases of direct harassment by individuals.
Dude, there is no "left" in the United States. The republican party is rightwing, a little more on the far rightwing spectrum. The democratic party is rightwing as well, with a very slight leaning towards center. None of the two are even remotely close to the leftwing ideas. And those guys you're so scared from, the Antifa, they aren't leftists. On any truly left-y country, the american Antifa guys would be perceived as what they truly are: rightwingers who only agree on TRIVIAL subjects with the left, while not in the crucial aspects that separate the left from the right.
Basically, you're scared of a ghost, a delusion, an inexistent thing. Please reconsider your life and stop watching Infowars/Fox News/the TV in general.
Do yourself a favor and complete this Test. Educate yourself in just how many variables are at play when determining someones affiliation.
So, kiddo, stop watching Infowars and actually try to read a book on basic politics.
You do realize I'm Australian/Canadian, right? Do you think the only people that call out the left are American?
You aren't offering any new revelation with your rhetoric. Both parties are mostly centrist and pander to their core demographics, what a surprise. Hillary lost favor pushing too hard towards feminism, hoping the sexual assault allegations were something the majority of Americans care about.
Antifa are favored because to do otherwise would harm the image of the Democratic party. Ofcourse they are a bunch of militant thugs with zero self awareness. Fighting against 'Nazis' while promoting National Socialist values. The 'Nazis' really being anyone associated with Capitalism or Liberty.
Intellectuals don't resort to straw-man tactics when attempting a rebuttal FYI. I have little faith you can even read comments, let alone a book if you think I'm right-wing/conservative.
Incorrectly labeling the Antifa as "left" is a mistake common to americans, but you have proven people from other countries can be wrong as well!
You aren't offering any new revelation with your rhetoric. Both parties are mostly centrist and pander to their core demographics, what a surprise. Hillary lost favor pushing too hard towards feminism, hoping the sexual assault allegations were something the majority of Americans care about.
Dude, you watch too much TV. The real reason Hillary lost was because Trump promised the american army much more budget than they could have ever had with Hillary, and, to a lesser degree, from a wave of angry voters who felt themselves betrayed by the administration of Obama. Feminism would be at the 100th or 200th reason as to why she didn't win, LOL.
Antifa are favored because to do otherwise would harm the image of the Democratic party. Ofcourse they are a bunch of militant thugs with zero self awareness. Fighting against 'Nazis' while promoting National Socialist values. The 'Nazis' really being anyone associated with Capitalism or Liberty.
Omg. The levels of ignorance in that sentence are colossal. Dude, where to begin with. Every single person in the Democratic party is a firm supporter not only of capitalism but also of american imperialism as every single damn person in the Democratic party has supported fabricated wars in order to obtain the geopolitical control of oil in other countries; the dems have as well supported financial wars and financial blockage against truly leftist countries such as Cuba, Venezuela and China. Not a single person in the Democratic party or the Antifa is against capitalism because they are financed by the very companies and institutions that represent capitalism such as Amazon, Blackrock and Exxon Mobil. DUDE, STOP WATCHING TV LOL
Intellectuals don't resort to straw-man tactics when attempting a rebuttal FYI. I have little faith you can even read comments, let alone a book if you think I'm right-wing/conservative.
It's ironic you say that because you resort to straw-man tactics all the time to attack your fellow Antifa brothers. Yes, I said your fellow Antifa brothers, because you both share the same rightwing ideology with only slightly different and irrelevant opinions on trivial subjects. One day one lesson boy: being leftwing or rightwing has more to do with crucial economic politics and less about your personal taste on irrelevant topics such as your views on transgender people.
Your military budget/war/oil rhetoric is dated, like Bush election dated. Clearly politics has moved on past you and you are lost and confused as to where you're meant to lay your allegiance.
STOP WATCHING TV LOL
I haven't watched TV in 8 years. Again, desperate straw-man to dismiss rebuttals you can't handle. The Democratic party has done all it can to pander to victims and socialists, to claim otherwise is cognitive blindness. Want capitalistic values? Vote Trump.
Little more then a contrarian trying to buck all trends to appear relevant. If you are just going to invent your own personal truths, no reason to debate you.
Doubling-down isn't giving your credibility any favors there bud. You claim Antifa is pro-capitalism, despite walking around waving hammer and sickles. The same Antifa that anytime they are given an opportunity to speak, praise the ideals of a communism Utopia.
Surprise surprise, people lie about their actions all the time. Just like the american army lies about bringing "freedom" to Middle Easter countries when they actually only bring them bombs and genocide, the antifa -along with the democratic party- wears "muh leftism" shirts while performing rightwing actions. Like I said before, do you even look at the kind of stuff the Democratic party vote for during legislation sessions? Of course you don't, lol. You have no idea whatsoever about their agenda, you only look at TV and believe every word about what they say.
Your military budget/war/oil rhetoric is dated, like Bush election dated. Clearly politics has moved on past you and you are lost and confused as to where you're meant to lay your allegiance.
Hahahaha. You literally have not even the slightest idea of what is going on with the world right now. The current fight between Trump and Merkel is because of oil (namely, the Nord Stream 2 oleoduct), the fight between Iran and Israel is because of the natural gas and oil reserves of the sea that is in between, even the fight on NAFTA Trump had with Mexico was 100% about oil being included in the treatise.
But your ignorance goes beyond that. You imply that the military budget is no longer relevant to politics. Oh you, its clear you are not even aware what is the economic sector that takes the largest chunk of federal budget in the whole world.
I haven't watched TV in 8 years
It rather looks like you watch TV every 5 minutes dude
Again, desperate straw-man to dismiss rebuttals you can't handle[quote]
Exactly what rebuttals? You have not provied a single argument other than ad hominems and a mantra of tautologies about the antifa "being communist" even when I provided the names of the neoliberalist industries that back up those guys. What data have you provided? None at all, only statements pulled out of your beloved TV.
[quote]The Democratic party has done all it can to pander to victims and socialists, to claim otherwise is cognitive blindness. Want capitalistic values? Vote Trump.
Like I said, you are not even aware of the kind of economic strategies that get voted in the american senate. The big economic and financial decisions, those get support from both parties. Want capitalistic values? Just vote, because in that regard, dems and reps have the very same financial agenda.
Little more then a contrarian trying to buck all trends to appear relevant. If you are just going to invent your own personal truths, no reason to debate you.
This is not a debate, I'm merely talking to someone who is uncapable of logical reasoning.
Well darn...
• Have a detective's degree or investigative training, in order to skillfully research the ages of fictional characters across the internet, so that we may more effectively persecute artists when we're ideologically offended by the porn they draw.
No wonder that people think furries are all pedophiles.
People don't operate based on facts or common sense: They act upon on fixations, correlations, ideas they've made in their heads. You aren't good or bad if you actually did right or wrong... you're good or bad if you don't instantly agree with what one's culture has decided. I'm among the few who refuse to play this game and will call out shit when I see it... such has gotten me labeled as everything from Nazi to a supporter of child molesters, but it's a mistake if they think that's going to intimidate me and make me walk in line.
Child abuse is sadly a real thing. It's one of the few things I luckily never had to deal with in this life... I am in fact a rarer case of someone who was affected by repression due to over-protection (one can surely see how that relates to my stance). The first rule is, being abused does not give someone a free pass to be stupid nor does it make them automatically right. Also stuff like watching porn while being under 18 let alone drawing cub porn (especially consensual one) are perfectly harmless and have nothing to do with abuse, they would in fact be perfectly normal in an open minded society that had actual regard for everyone: Being beaten by your parents or bullied at school, forced to live the lives others want, threatened that it's a crime to even think forbidden thoughts... if people want abuse, they should get their sorry asses there and see what that actually is like!
When it comes to real wrongdoers, I'm against them as much as everyone else. The only difference with me there is that even when it comes to actual evil, I care more to see the problem solved than the bad guy punished. It's a thought that's difficult to accept... but even disturbed killers or rapists got where they are for a reason, and were circumstances different they might have not went bad. Also everyone can change if given the right circumstances, even if they're difficult to create sometimes. Part of society is slowly starting to figure this one out, but most unfortunately still think that casting stones solves every problem.
I'm on most art sites even if I watch artists primarily on FA. I go to InkBunny now and then so you might have indeed seen me there! And pleasure to meet you too
As I try to do this service for furrydom (TBH, it's a form of recreation for me, too) and document people who have actually committed crimes and ethical misdeeds, and as I labor enormously on a case so people completely comprehend why the accusations are true (or false- I don't just throw shit at a target and ignore mitigating or exculpatory evidence) and why my verdict should be believed, and fully understand a case and what the defendant is truly guilty and innocent of- these dunderheads are screaming ragefully about seeing a Tacklebawk picture, and blaming cub porn for helping incite the recent ZooSadist cases.
This is a case of taking the internet too seriously
I needed a good laugh thanks
simple for the fact that i see some rules stronger than they might are.....
However, furrydom has repeatedly failed to leave FA. In 2016 it seemed a rival had gained sufficient momentum to have a real shot at ascendance. They were corrupt and incompetent and actually dangerous in a way Dragoneer never could be, but this wasn't fully apparent at the time. In a glorious display of fandom-level sabotage and internecine violence, a bunch of artists from here who never really cared about the new place more or less invaded it and demonstrated angrily upon learning they allowed cub porn, which caused the owner to reverse himself after 48 hours of voting which was proved to be exploitable and broken. They then shut down new comments and support questions/suggestions. This new place lost all momentum and died from its own subculture's actions, and the satisfied artists fucked off back to here immediately after the vote.
Furry drama is so enthralling to me. Though, really, furries are just like mundanes- they will act against their own interests consistently, and keep relying on terrible people even when better alternatives exist. Now we have political polarization happening.
Anyway, yes, it's too much for any one person to adequately explain in one post. Furries won't leave it except when they literally cannot log in, so Dragoneer can be as bad as he cares to be so long as FA is serviceable to a minimally acceptable degree. Oh, yeah, some jackoff company owns FA after he sold it. Furries literally do not even own this site now. Hah!
>FOR FREE
Sticking my dick in a hornet's nest would be a better use of my time.
Of course, posting an image is more like making someone else think about these things. (Still not the same as doing them, however.) If FA had decent and specific filters, this wouldn't be a problem - just tell the site what not to show you, and you're all set. Maybe in the much-dreamed-of site recode - which I believe we are still allowed to think about.
Prosecuting people for drawing an image, unless it is a life sketch of a real incident, is much too close to prosecuting thought, which is way too totalitarian for me. That being said, FA, as a private website, has the right to adopt and enforce any policies it wishes; and I am sure that the reason they ban overt child pornography, and sexual photographs of animals, is because of U.S. law. But an image of creatures which do not actually exist in the real world is very, very difficult to link to an actual crime - other than the "crime" of incorrect thought. If I have a painting of a knight slaying a dragon, why couldn't someone say that the image actually represents the real-life assassination of a bad government official, then ban it and imprison me for "suggesting" such a deed? In some countries, they can and they do. Those aren't places I would ever want to live.
The fact that the lines get blurry around the edges - the fact, for instance, that there are invented species which look distinctly child-like - is not a reason to draw an arbitrary line across people's imaginations. In the end (so to speak), the abuses of freedom generally work out better than the abuses of power.
-That being said, I understand why they do, and it is their prerogative.
So we better ban all fantasy representations. Video-games, Films, Music.
It's fallacy to claim humans cannot differentiate fantasy from reality, however FA can host any content they want. Just don't try to apply logic to it.
Anyway, you two have no business using that argument with that morally superior tone, as neither of you actually fully believe in it.
We've never attacked cub artists. Infact I've been outspoken in my support of both Argon_Vile & Zaush.
> your mate's obnoxious remarks in the unrelated case I had been researching
I've yet to see an anecdotal story actually corroborate to any real statement we have ever said.
> Killing her on a psyche/spirit level over time
You don't know either of us. Obnoxious, virtue signalling morons such as yourself are why she doesn't like the furry community.
> I'm mildly curious at what age you consider the threshold of the colloquial standard of "pedophilia"
Depends on the country. Considering FA is a US based platform, you need to respect the 18+ rule for it's content. Why you are this obsessed with pedophilia raises a lot of questions.
I don’t care what you say on the matter. Arguing FOR bestiality makes you just as sick. It makes you a bestiality sympathizer and a pedosympathizer. In other words, a huge part of the problem.
pretty wild idea huh!!!
because DRAGONS are not DOGS. you fuckin' 'tard.
And, if you were at a concert and someone told you "yo dude the guy at the drums is a fucking beast". Would it count as bestiality too?
A feast of bees could be considered a bee-st, but would it make it bee-stiality?
Dragons while beasts are not real animals and thus it cannot be bestiality. If you were fucking a feral iguana obviously this is a different story.
Edit: after all, think of this vestigal bone we all have called, duh, tailbone. What if that used to be a dragon tail millions of years ago?
Humans are species of anaimal. :D One of the facts of life, which many people completely forget.
i doubt you'd stick your dick in a beehive
But hey, sometimes it doesn't look that way. O.o
Also, your name seems familiar to me... Yeah, you've upset many people many times over several years. I'm surprised you don't have a KF thread, yet...
Oh, you don't happen to have an Inkbunny account, do you? I'm too lazy to check at the moment.
i mean how old is this comment thread? lol.
"Vore", however, includes not only realistic depictions of predation, but many avenues of consumption, ingestion, and absorption, some of which - like many of the things in furry art - are physically impossible: "furry logic", although "furry physics" might be more accurate. So where do you draw the line? You can interpret any image as a reference to anything. Is a knight slaying a dragon really a veiled depiction of an actual assassination? Is a bear opening its maw impossibly wide and swallowing someone whole a reference to killing an actual person - or is it a fantasy? Yes, some people have what I would consider rather disturbing fantasies, involving things like gore and asphyxiation; not a big fan of scat, either. But I don't really care what other people think, and I don't want it ever to be illegal to think about anything.
It seems to me that the only solid, unequivocal place to draw a line is between fantasy and reality. If you draw an image of a non-human cub and a mature creature having sex, yeah, maybe you're thinking about pedophilia; and if you draw an image of a human and a dragon, maybe you're imagining a stallion instead; and maybe others seeing the same image have the same thought, find it disturbing or repulsive, and want it gone; and maybe FA is more concerned about protecting itself from prosecution, and keeping the website operating, than it is about valid philosophical argument - for which, as a practical matter, I can't entirely blame them. But thinkin' it ain't doin' it.
There was some discussion of dragons above, which got rather angry; so rather than jumping into that, allow me to share a historical perspective. In the Middle Ages, if a woman (why was it always a woman?) were accused of consorting with the forces of evil, it was considered critical to know whether she had "congress" with the Devil himself, or with a mere demon. Congress with the Devil was classified as blasphemy, and the penalty was death, usually in a most unpleasant manner. Congress with a demon was classified as - yes - bestiality, demons not being human; for which the penalty was also death, but it was important to know why you were killing someone who most likely hadn't done any of the things of which she was accused.
People used to believe that demons, dragons, and the like were not fantasy creatures, as they are on FA, but real beings you might encounter in the world; and bestiality with a dragon was considered as real, and as horrific, a possibility as bestiality with a barnyard animal. Thought evolves.
(A pretty serious answer to a fun question! Well, you can take the academician out of the university . . .)
Me, personally, I don't think pedos should be prosecuted, they should merely be looked down and frowned at for having bad tastes. After all, why having sex with a child when you can have sex with her milfy mom? Think of it. Mature, rounded, with curves, maybe a bbw.... *drools*.... bbw milfs, hmmmnnnfff~
Edit: so, in general, children suck, but their moms are hot stuff. Long live to bbw milfs!
Problem is, when you're a pedo you don't want the Mum, you want the child, and that is just horrific no matter how you put it. You can't just say to a pedo "But wouldn't you rather have a curvy woman?". Because no, they wouldn't.
Pedos have to be prosecuted, because they're out there raping children and mentally crippling them for life. Imagine if you had a child or little brother/ sister that were raped by a pedo, would you just let it go and just put it down to "bad taste"?
This is not an apology for cub art. If it was for me, I wouldn't even want to see gay art at all in FA, if it was for me it would be a haven of hot vorish furry women! But, I cannot godmod this place, and I can tolerate diversity so, you can try and have some tolerance with those people unless they show clear signs of being actual rapists.
That's incredibly messed up, since it's pretty easy to distinguish a child from an adult. What on earth do they think cub is then!?
Be extremely careful of who you add to your team. Spiteful people can ruin essentially the livehood of artist, writer and musicians who post here to promote themselves; because a moderator decided they didn't like the person they used thier hand upon by abusing the power they were bestowed and I have seen it far too often.
hoooo boy here we go again..
Never change FA
What? That never happens.
I saw the unedited version
I considered leaving it but I don't want to get banned again for being too outspoken.
However, I have a bit of a past in poking the proverbial hornet's nest a bit too much.
So, its a bit of that but yeah, you're not wrong about the whole people being insecure thing either.
Also, I'm sorry for how much of a shitty person I was to you in the past.
It was probably something really stupid, as most internet drama tends to be.
And there could even be legal ramifications with someone taking sides where someone's money or livelihood are concerned, and it could get very complicated really fast. I doubt anyone here is getting paid enough for the potential headache. I suppose that's why there is Artists Beware.
And beyond that, caveat emptor- It's probably not a bad idea to look into someone's rep before engaging their services...
I see how it can become a problematic situation for mods if they started banning said scammers, but it's really disheartening to see artists with 100+ people in their queues who are waiting for their paid services while the artists takes on new commissions to this day. I wish the mods would at least address the issue and look into it. I have no experience what to ever when it comes to running a site, but I think we can all agree that flat out scam artists who do 10% of their owed art and run off with the rest of the money is a HUGE issue on this site.
Perhaps if there were a set of criteria in the T.O.S. that would garner a suspension if not met?
Oh, shit. You're serious... MUAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Also if you commissioned something, and no more than 6 months passed, you can ask for a refund on paypal.
And this may be useful for you https://artists-beware.livejournal.com/ ;3
If they dissapeared, maybe you should still try contacting paypal explaining your situation
Hey DarkRocket, got some more popcorn~?
I want this to be the site, where someone can do something and have fun without fear and intimidation. As I have said, we must show love and respect for one another.
That's from a personal experience.
More like common knowledge xD
fuckin' autocorrect
But your idea of "communism=poverty" is wrong. The world's strongest economy (by purchase parity) is governed by a party called "Communist Party of China".
>wow but what about the CUCKS AND COMMUNISTS
but idk how well I could solve problems well online.
Roles and responsabilities:
- responsabilities: None
- roles: being an instrument of attack/defense for popufurs
Best moderator traits:
-impulsiveness: always ban people if they say something you didn't like!
-favoritism: remember to ban only the non famous people, and if you have to solve a dispute between two non-popular small fries, feel free to ban the one you don't like, or both!
-lazyness: solve problem tickets only when you feel like it (you won't get paid for it afterall!)
- double standard: apply the rules only to those who are not popular and/or those who you dislike!
If you think you have the proper traits and can perform those roles and responsabilities, don't even bother to apply because we -the staff- will anyways handpick personal friends for the (unpaid) job!
Besides.... you honestly don't need a title like "Moderator" to be of help to others =|
You can do plenty by helping other folks when they need it just as you are imo
#tootrue
MICHAEL SCOTT: That's what she said!
Where the fuck do some of these furries, and also the antis, acquire these absurd legal notions on that matter, anyway?
PS- To make cub porn even less viable in a 1466A prosecution, a defense of the depicted creatures not meeting the federally legislated definition of "person"- and thus also failing to meet the standard of "minor"- could be invoked by the defense, and there's a good chance the judge/appellate justices would agree.
But not even 1 person a year is charged with this AFAIK, so you'd basically have to be ridiculously unlucky, even if you were an unmitigated and insufferable troll about it.
Also, a little box for applicants to write why they want to be a mod for FA. That would be important due to all of the people submitting applications just for the hell of it. Like, the way it is, there's literally no way to distinguish between the people who actually want to be a mod and people who don't.
Do we ever find out who gets picked or is it all behind the scenes? I've always applied, but have yet to see who comes out of it as someone who is chosen.
>not roblox
>not roblox
>not club penguin
hnnnnnng... my poor, aching heart... used to play with some friends in elementary school... hnnnnng...
https://media.giphy.com/media/YVTWe.....pkuA/giphy.gif
Thanks for the entertainment, everyone!
Some people donate their organs, some others rescue dogs or cats from the streets. Some, just some, want to work for free for a site funded by a private company that could perfectly pay for the position if they wanted to and whose purpose is to host cartoon animal porn.
Perhaps. Maybe, maybe if you look deep in the darkness of your heart you may find a light. A light shaped after a Foxwolfgoat Jesus and redeem yourself by volunteering for this noble work.
In terms of practicality, there is hardly any metric to measure by how much to pay a moderator, not to mention it completely changes the expectation of what a moderator should do. I am sure most moderators here have a career or job that they spent the bulk of their time on. Paying them by the hour is out of the question. Are you going to pay them by the amount of people they ban? The amount of tickets they answer? These metrics may encourage undesirable side effect, decreasing the effectiveness of moderators. If you do it by the hour, how do you ensure they're actually working? It adds a whole hosts of problems while solving a problem not many people want solved if you can even call it a problem in the first place.
I am sure people who do volunteer to moderate Furaffinity do so, because they enjoy it for a multitude of reasons. I bet you that a good bulk of moderators here have their own career or a job that they work full-time at. They require flexibility as a result. When they get paid for moderating, the expectation changes for them, and the flexibility associated with being a moderator is drastically reduced, disincentivizing the very reason many moderators even volunteer in the first place. It's like mindlessly increasing minimum wage without giving thought to the consequences. You drive up living cost due to shifting population movements in and out of a city, bringing gentrification to the area due to the initially 'desirable' wage, and force businesses to hire less but more qualified folks to compensate. Consequently, you end up hurting the people you seek, just like "paying moderators" will.
You try to claim I "misunderstand" or "misquoted" you, but it seems as if you're the one misunderstanding me. You fail to understand that you don't do "shady" practices in full view of everyone to see, especially when it's advertised on every page of Furaffinity. It's not hidden, as it's in everyone's faces every step of the way. It most certainly isn't illegal considering how standard the practice is. Not all moderators are paid. In fact, most aren't. Moderators on Reddit and subreddits don't get paid. Moderators in forums owned by successful video game companies are not paid. Keep in mind these companies, including Reddit, are for profit. I also love how you conveniently forgot my mention about successful video game companies. Throw a dart, and you'll find moderators that don't get paid for those companies.
Again, to reiterate, most don't have to pay. If they do, they pay for full-timers if they believe they need that sort of dedication and professionalism out of choice.
And if they're paid, those jobs are most likely going to be or is outsourced to foreigners in India or the Philippines for cost-efficiency. It's not shady. It's business.
Shady business practices are done in blatant light all the time. Want an example from this very site? why don't we look at their own swap to their TOS about hate speech and terroristic organizations? They used that specifically to get rid of a group they disagreed with while denying an organization they agree with (who has been labeled a terrorist organization by multiple American agencies at this point) falls under the criteria of terrorist organization, thus leaving them alone. It was done infront of people's noses and the people questioning it were themselves accused of supporting the groups they decided to ban.
I also stated it is getting dangerously close to illegal. Which. guess what. it IS getting dangerously close to illegal. For a for profit organization, as FA now is, to have volunteers they are supposed to adhere to some extremely strict regulations, of which I can guarantee FA is not following to the letter because if so they wouldn't be asking for volunteers, why? because psychological damage which can be accrued from this stuff would break the rules for volunteer work in this case. And some of the shit moderators have to deal with on this site would infact cause psychological trauma.
Also, a small lesson on basic politics: communism is a leftist position... And in america there is no real left. Republicans are far rightwingera, dems are moderate rightwingers, there is not even a slightly lefty party in america, at least not in the senate or the congress.
Example: https://www.giantbomb.com/forums/of.....r-stan-456575/ and https://www.reddit.com/r/NoStupidQu.....tors_get_paid/
Now that you're shifting the goalpost, you're conveniently forgetting about Reddit whose entire function revolves around social media and its associated sub-forums, so your point is moot anyways? Also, again, moderators don't directly contribute to profit. Depending on the accounting principles a company follows, they would be labeled as fixed overhead costs or indirect costs if you want to be general about it. Also, the main source of profit isn't the comments but clicks on articles, ads, and so on. Again, you're reaching for air here. You don't know what you're talking about.
Besides, moderators are not your average worker. Most moderators don't want to be paid for several reasons, because they know what will happen if they do. Again, expectations will shift as I stated before that will not be to their favor, not to mention, all that work will most likely be outsourced to a foreign country with lower labor cost that teaches English early on. It's already happened for some, and you get to deal with potential workers who have no attachment to the community who are there to work. I've had very terrible experiences with that myself.
Not to mention, those overhead costs will again be applied to you, the consumer. There is no such thing as a free lunch and if a business can safely transport cost or extract some sort of benefit to cover costs, they will do it. It's why corporate taxes mean little in the end, because the corporations have the information, the manpower, and the talent to levy those taxes and spread it evenly onto the prices of their product or service offered and push it onto you, the consumer. You're not going to help anyone with this.
Maybe instead of suggesting I learn more about the subject, perhaps, you should try to learn how business and law work? I do, because it's what I specialize in?
Also, if moderators on FA have psychological trauma from this line of work and continue to work in it, even though they have absolutely no reliance on it monetarily, I have no sympathy for them. Besides, if that's their baseline for psychological trauma, I struggle to see how they would be able to function in any other line of work, especially in firms like Samsung that bring a Korean work mentality even in American locations. Sounds like they would have deeper problems than being a moderator on a website that probably doesn't even produce that much revenue in the first place. The business model isn't exactly conducive for maximization of profits.
Maybe you took a wrong turn at Albuquerque
a wrong turn at Doguquerque
hehehe
hehe
Cooking Mama doesn't turn people into licensed chefs
Doom doesn't turn people into killers
Drawing or looking at cub art doesn't turn people into child molesters
Luckily, the artists who appealed the report, got unsuspended because the reported pics didn't even have cubs.
But well, what i mean with my comment is that it would be better to receive a warning or a message to appeal first before jumping right to the suspension/ban, in my opinion :3.
Because I'm the one that reported them.
There were three artists that got suspended.
One of them outright made two instances of cock vore featuring underaged characters.
The other two were based on information I had found concerning their artwork.
The first did indeed make cub artwork, and what I saw was that the tags didn't match up in another website the person had posted to.
Apparently, the website also has a public tagging system which allows users to add their own tags to the artwork, even long after the artist had forgotten about it.
I was the one that was informed of this. The one of the admins of the other site told me that the tags were added after the fact, and I provided the information to the FA admins personally to get them back within the week.
The second, was a similar situation. They made cub porn themselves, and this particular case, they uploaded a commission from an artist who is a well known cub porn artist.
I did my investigation, which led me to a file of images on Inkbunny, which was entirely labeled as "cub porn" leading me to believe the same picture within the file was indeed that.
Unfortunately, this was an error on both the artist and the commissioner. The ONE picture was not meant to be cub porn, and featured a person's fursona that wasn't into cub porn at all.
Again, I relayed the information to the FA admins to help their appeal for getting back into FA earlier than their suspension was.
In every single case I reported what I saw, exactly how I saw it. Had the mistakes on the other end not been made, I wouldn't have made the mistakes myself.
Moral of the story is:
Don't mix your kiddy porn with your regular porn. As a matter of fact. Just don't get or make kiddy porn at all.
One of the examples i'm talking about, is a page with multiple characters that hasn't any cub at all on the version posted on FA, and that version was made for this site because that rule. The user got suspended anyways, until they appealed and explained that. They was told it was a mistake.
If FA doesn't allow cub, I'm ok with it, is their site and must have lots of reasons to not allow that. I don't like drawing that anyways ¯\_(ツ)_/¯.
But, again, my point of commenting that is it would be better to receive a warning or a message to appeal first before jumping right to the suspension/ban, in my opinion.
Is vore even porn?
You can usually suspect a person like that, is actually into that,
But can't really say for sure, until they actually show it.
If you're really curious, check if they have an Inkbunny account,
If they do, check their favorites folder.
That will usually clear anything up.
"2.
an inanimate object worshiped for its supposed magical powers or because it is considered to be inhabited by a spirit."
Doesn't have to have "magical" or religious properties. It's just an object of desire and worship. Therefore; Fetish that isn't inherently sexual.
As for the cub thing. If you can't see the problem at hand with people trying to hide in plain sight, like the way they are here on FA, than you clearly haven't been effected by it yourself.
"It doesn't effect me" "There are no real victims" "It's meant for adults, you can't groom adults."
I'm one of those people. My own father made attempts at grooming my brother and sister with loli and shota hentai, and it scarred them.
It ruined the relationship with them.
And the last thing I want is this to happen to anyone else, especially when there are people on this site that will tell you it doesn't happen, or that it doesn't matter if it happened to you.
This is 100% something to care about.
So you should know what the problem is, right?
That's not doxing, that's warning others of another predator, that you're deciding to be polite to.
This whole last paragraph is literally what I said in quotes in my last reply. Like, damn.
It's the fact that people put it out there in the public, and people have, and will, use it for grooming.
Just like what happened in my family.
It's not the art that is the problem. If they need to create that art to reduce their urges, and it's what makes them happy.
Fine.
But as soon as they're putting it out in public view, trying to hide it in plain sight, trying to hide it when you find out,
That's where the obvious problem lies, that these are indeed those kind of people, trying to be public about it.
I mean, when he's the gay flower thing speaking to you, he looks adult. When he wears whatever he found at Toriel's sweaty wardrobe and becomes "teh gawd ov megaded" or some shit like that, he looks adult. But the only one time he looks cub is during the "true ending" (moar liek, the poser ending). So how can he be cub and adult and plant at the same time? Moreso, why is he wearing his mom's ceremonial gown and not his dad's warclothes? Does that mean Asriel is secretly into crossdressing????!!!!
Still, he's a poser fur using his mum's clothes
I've also seen an alarmingly high emergence of people who were in similar situations to yours who will weaponize that and their exposure to fictional child porn by their alleged groomers in their endeavors to shame and ban/criminalize cub/shota/loli. I have a sociopolitical cultural theory for this: we've become so pedophobic that people are internalizing it and are, in fact, groomed by society and certain furries to become belligerent combatants on this cultural war issue, when their experience was in fact relatively normal for furrydom/similar communities, and not really a "pedophilia" or "child grooming" matter.
Anyway, thank you for being a sane person.
Unless the artists states other wise, or uses a specific design from the comics,
where the character was depicted as nearly 50,
Then they dont care.
Trust me, Tails and Cream are for some reason the ONLY characters they're consistent with.
Sorry.
Do you ?
Might I suggest obtaining more staff for the forum as well. I've noticed there have been a few complains in that area too.
Might I suggest obtaining more staff for the forum as well. I've noticed there have been a few complains in that area too.
Done~
Would love to help out but if i did get accepted, I would be grateful if a few already long time mods help train me in performing as best as possible to keep FurAffinity the biggest and most friendly face of the furry community
I have real life experience as supervisor and Manager at multiple business including but not limited to a a drug store and then Medial facility
I also admin multiple large telegram groups with 600+ members
Character references from folks can be provided to confirm my experience and my history
You, you're doing volunteer work for no company(least from what I know) and that's legal cause you do what you will with your own free time.
2:\> If you do not like the site, you can always just leave. You do not have to be here.
3:\> Your remarks are amusing, however your stance is not. No need to act like(not be) a punkass.
4:\> 3 times is a red flag, it makes me think you deserved them but keep popping up and will not go away like a bad rash.
5:\> It does not matter if it is "professional" or not, you dont really matter, nor does the look, inside and out. I just figured you would already know this.
6:\>cmd echo 127.0.0.1 furaffinity.net >> %WINDIR%\System32\Drivers\Etc\Hosts
you good?
But why? Why would I do that?
omigod, that's not Mayor Mc Cheese...
-and I'm not the Hamburglar, either...
May I apply for this job? I think I match the traits this company requires! I'm quite experienced as a janitor.
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those are rookie numbers
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So are you guys gonna actually train your new mods to not instantly ban users without even giving them warnings like the current staff is doing to many users? You guys use to issue out warnings to give users time correct/remove the material if it's breaking site rules so idk why that system was dropped and everyone just moved to instant banning.
It's a private site, after all.
I probably shouldn't have said that, knowing that I'm the the only person here early enough to fill out a form.
I like you.
so uh, have fun with whatever this is. lol.
i'm almost eager to see how much worse this site can get
People are so at each other's throats lately. You guys need to learn a bit of respect for one another and CALM DOWN smh .o.''
but really I've had a lot of experience with similar websites (many with staff problems and just massively terrible in general) and I weirdly like the stress of it sometimes; and right now I'm bored and out of work so it'd be something to do
Subscribe to Dolan Dark
She already has access to all our files.
I... I really hope I can get the job! And, I hope the payment is better than in my last one? Last time... I didn't really get paid anything. I sort of did it for free.
But, now that I think of it, perhaps not everything has to be about money. I'm pretty sure I will feel quite accomplished once I start working for free for a private bussiness. It will feel like when I was an apprentice in the Church of Scientology. Back then I even had to pay them to let me work for them! But, it's fine. Maybe doing it for free its fine. And people will thank me for it when I ban them.
But, you know, I hope this big Imvu company can spare me some delicious hot pockets every now and then, it would be fine to be fed, if even a bit, for the hundreds of hours I'll spend working hard in this place. I'm old and, and, and...kind of lonely you know.
2) Keep discussion on topic to the post at hand.
3) Treat your fellow posters with respect.
Good job guys. Nailed it.
I think the site needs a fresh reboot.
Not saying delete everything, or start banning people en masse. But this site is starting to show it's age, and a lot of problems persist in both journals, comments, and even people... heck, if you really need an example just read through a majority of the posted comments.
Maybe it's just me, but when I joined the fandom everything seemed fun, harmless, sometimes a little weird or even freaky, but it looked like everyone got along. Things have changed in the past 12 years, and I don't expect things to stay the same. The worst things we have lost isn't the ability to post certain fetish material, or freedom of expression... It's respect and understanding of our fellow furs.
So chances are some new people will be volunteers to help the site out. they're either going to work out, or they're going to be a general nuisance not only to the administration, but to the users of the site and how people think the site is run without in depth knowledge. It's bad enough knowing that we're at eachother's throats half the time, thinking we have the moral right in the argument... Do I really need to go find the "winning an argument on the internet" quote? Cause even if you have the best of intent with a back and forth with someone else, you just make yourself look like an idiot either way.
So here's my suggestion: Instead of just finding volunteers, start work on a beta site. start with suggestions, find a group of furs that can at least be respectful to one another to administrate the site, and go from there.
Chances are Furaffinity is going to be around for as long as it works. But that doesn't mean we should beat the dead horse to the molecular level. We need to move forward.
And No number of mods can save it.
FA kinda went past the point of Volunteers when it went with imvu
So, in short, Dragoneer, ask Leshana how to actually run a site. It should be easier for you, since FA has much less traffic.
Those are my two cents. And this is my only 100% serious post in this thread.
• Respectful moderation. First of all you don't get banned for what you draw, there is no ideological police. Second, even when there's a conflict, banning people isn't the first reaction of the mods... Eka often contacts people personally and tells them what she'd like them to do, conflicts are solved efficiently and with minimal damage.
• Nicer community. I couldn't say people aren't being nice on FA too... however I've almost never seen actual drama there except very rarely, while on FA there's conflict daily. I don't know if that's because the vore fandom is nicer than the furry one, though that would be a silly assumption... especially since Eka's is half furry anyway.
• Better features. This includes the ability to both block and follow tags rather than just users... let's not even mention stuff like nested folders, or an RSS feed which lets me see the latest art posted on the website directly from a desktop widget. You also don't need an account to view NSFW content which helps with being able to share stuff.
• Better uptime as well as security. Not once in over 10 years have I either seen the site down nor getting hacked. No, it's no lie... I at least have not.
They allow depictions of both cub porn and child porn be shown to public view, even without an account.
Last I checked, the owner of that site is Canadian, and Canadian law states that even drawn CP is illegal. 🤔
Unlike Dragoneer, Leshana has not been involved in multiple scandals or any kind of drama in the last 13 years.
Also, Leshana has a normal job and only works on Aryion as a hobby, whereas Dragoneer supposedly works a full time job on FA, yet Lesh gets much better results even when it is not her actual job to do so.
That's why I HONESTLY think Dragoneer should personally ask Leshana to coach him on how to have a decent site.
As for the traffic thing, check Alexa.
Or is this the Youtube Comment Section?
And the fallout spreads everyday.
We are all well behaved animals.
Thanks for the consideration. <3
This guy understands xD
Y'know, being blocked just means you won. ;3
Except they can't run and tell 'mommy' to ban you for being mean
'Mommy's' busy looking for unpaid labor
I couldn't be bothered with your filth, you was saying. But I think I'll just unblock you, just to dislike your antics on people.
Wow. This sounds like something from the past they said to me. I'll say it too you. That was a narcissistic response for the last sentence.
Sorry for all the bullshit I said and the spamming comment. Damn. I made a fool of myself and got someone to dislike me for not reading a simple comment near the top of this journal.
I'll leave ya alone. My apologizes again. >.<
I'm fine with just posting my mediocre degenerate art here.
Some heros.... some heros don't wear capes *smol tear in eye*
Dude, are you a milennial like me? It's a form of friendly humor to act like that (irreverence is the noun), don't take it to heart and just laugh with us.
Sometimes, in order to sound funny and irreverent, you tell the other person overly exaggerated statements in order to create an atmosphere of false drama, in where all of the parts are aware that the drama is false and just go on with it because somehow, in our human morbid nature, it is funny to partake in such situations.
Hmm That's a different way of explaining it really. Strange how people with neurological different, comprehend those sort of things differently. Anyhow. I'm moving on from this stuff in here. :3
I take my apologies back towards you.
I mean, you can like electro, but at least listen to something more refined like Klaus Schulze.
Also stop being yandere, blocking and unblocking people as means of "punishment" and "reward"
I'm from the 90's, I saw poekmahn generation no color.
Just a fucking idiot that just happens to not act like one."
That's coming from you by the way. Hmm I see double standards. Geez
Which is a fancy way of saying, "Anyone with a political affiliation that isn't 'left' need not apply."
Dude, there is no "left" in the United States. The republican party is rightwing, a little more on the far rightwing spectrum. The democratic party is rightwing as well, with a very slight leaning towards center. None of the two are even remotely close to the leftwing ideas. And those guys you're so scared from, the Antifa, they aren't leftists. On any truly left-y country, the american Antifa guys would be perceived as what they truly are: rightwingers who only agree on TRIVIAL subjects with the left, while not in the crucial aspects that separate the left from the right.
Basically, you're scared of a ghost, a delusion, an inexistent thing. Please reconsider your life and stop watching Infowars/Fox News/the TV in general.
(I wish FA had Like buttons because there's comments I love on this page.)
Also, do you use Inkbunny? That's a great place and community, I've heard.
To furries, unless you constantly play devil's advocate in support of nazis and/or raping animals you're not truly "neutral." lmao.
I browse this place on a daily basis since a decade ago and I have never found stuff like that, except for when obvious trolls upload real life photographs of dead people/dead animals and get banned.
Just gonna throw this out and say if that means respecting extremeist anarcho commie fags like anti fa then you guys clearly have your heads up your asses more than jasona fex and kaiber combined lol
Dude, there is no "left" in the United States. The republican party is rightwing, a little more on the far rightwing spectrum. The democratic party is rightwing as well, with a very slight leaning towards center. None of the two are even remotely close to the leftwing ideas. And those guys you're so scared from, the Antifa, they aren't leftists. On any truly left-y country, the american Antifa guys would be perceived as what they truly are: rightwingers who only agree on TRIVIAL subjects with the left, while not in the crucial aspects that separate the left from the right.
Basically, you're scared of a ghost, a delusion, an inexistent thing. Please reconsider your life and stop watching Infowars/Fox News/the TV in general.
Edit : And if they were truly extremists they would be murdering people instead of their gay semi-peaceful protests
So, kiddo, stop watching Infowars and actually try to read a book on basic politics.
Y'all should be ashamed of yourselves.
Thanks for agreeing with me
Dude, you have absolutely no idea on what a leftist agenda really looks like. None of the things "sjws" or "antifa" want have an even remotely substantial influence on Economy. And that's the keyword kiddo, ECONOMY. A leftist agenda has kaypoints related to economy, while the antifa you're so afraid of, has none at all.
Again, stop watching TV and start an academic study on politics.
Dammit, that's a hot BBW.
And to think that BBW's aren't even your specialty.
Too bad it'll never come to be
I am interested in becoming a mod
Riiiiiiiiiiight. I mean Summercat did a "great" job.
Paying your staff since you're part of a company?
I literally wish.
Being on this site's like being in American politics: it can be nice to visit, but it's still corrupt as fuck.
I know, it's gross, but such is human nature.
Also, like, half of the femboy furry porn looks like it's plausibly somewhat underage, and probably at least 2/3 of anime schoolgirl stuff. Would all of that be verboten under your new and glorious reforms, or just the stuff you didn't find fapworthy? I've never been able to figure out how a total cub ban would work when so much other stuff is ambiguous.
You mean pedo central?
Don't fucking reply to me, you fucking piece of trash.
https://www.sofurry.com/siteupdate/view?id=129
These people are gross.
I think i'm gonna be sick.
It makes me feel like we harbor a community that feels comfortable displaying those kinds of things.
And I’m very not comfortable with that.
It’s good to see some sites finally crack down on it, but I also saw an admin there apologizing for the change which is sad as hell in my opinion.
It’s also concerning that an admin would rather you block a tag than acknowledge possibly illegal material on their site.
This whole thing is such a mess.
Ppl think because it's fantasy, that's it's harmless, those fantasies can escalate easily to irl too against a child, and due to many trying to make it look to be harmeless fetish is why there's always a child sex offenders or w/e on the news daily... x.x
I’ve heard of that happening before because of the whole “no call out journals” thing.
There has to be a grey area in this rule.
Like I get no talking shit and all, but when there are legitimate concerns it’s like we’re not allowed to voice them.
I saw people were comparing it to murder art and I just feel like that’s intellectually dishonest.
You get offenses for talking about other art websites even, I ranted about Weasly once and it was called out as hate speech. i just said it's kinda dead on there as in not so "active" as an opinion, that's one of the BS situations you can deal with on here. Shows how much they like to silence ppl who don't agree with them etc.
The guy who owns Inkbunny (Aka a green guy) you'll see his replies all over sites under cub and pedophilia subjects, especially when ppl talk against it.
Or possibly even wanted to know about.
I had no idea it was this big of an issue in the community.
yikes
y i k e s
Guantanamo BayInkbunny where they have a big enough playground to do it in.btw, the way she replied to you was unprofessional as hell, I know it's not her cup of tea and she has a strong moral standpoint against depictions of underage characters both fictional and real, but she just came off as kind of a dick
Ohbaby.
LIKE WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT RULE EVEN FOR IF YOU DONT ENFORCE IT?
The guy above compared femboys to kids and immediately got a block.
Don't fucking compare a sexual thing to a kid.
Milfs are. Mnnnf.
they will take payment by screwing with the users
and inflicting their ideology on the site.
(my opinion :-O )
The staff is merely applying the good ol' "let them bark and release their anger in there, then we will proceed as always"
Commenting here was a mistake xD
Observation.
Good luck with your hunt, FA!
Need moderation for this condition.
sans undertale
For real though I saw this and was so happy!!!
Kind of sad I can’t apply right now though.
To everyone who has applied, BEST OF LUCK TO YOU!!!!
And to those who are selected, Good job! I hope you enjoy it!
Looking at the form, I see a lot of personal information is being asked of in order to apply as a site moderator. If I do apply and become one, what benefits do I get for becoming one? Will there be any form of experience I can take with me or wold this be a paid job? I have heard there were paid jobs for the maintenance of FA before and was wondering if this was one of them.
2- Working in here won't improve your curriculum; it may actually worsen it
3- The only benefit you receive is the unique opportunity to make worse the life of struggling artists and become the personal bodyguard of famous ones since you will be able to ban whoever you want for whatever reason you may come up with
Edit: By the way, Fender doesn't exist. This might hit you as hard as when you discovered that Santa isn't real.
Sounds like a typical FA mod being a typical FA mod
I'm sorry you had to go through all that, and I'm sorry for all the others who, as well, had to suffer the terrible moderation this place has always had.
They ignore TT's all the time, aren't neutral at all (if they like an artist's work they won't react to the offending images - case point, [quite a lot of cub art that I've reported here), quite many of them are racist, nationalist and overall toxic, completely unaware of the site rules and lack any and all flexibility in a lot of cases.
Especially the lack of improvisation and flexibility is a serious problem with your current staff. A Japanese, Chinese or Korean artist posts something here and does ONE mistake with the upload, and your moderators ban them for it, instead of just correcting the mistake and writing a note, saying "This was wrong, but we fixed it, please avoid making the same mistake in the future" (typically wrong rating or lack of one).
You think this kind of a approach will encourage a bigger group of Pixiv users to ever even try out your website? Yeah, no...
This is why they don't get paid, its all in the satisfaction of being able to be assholes to other people and get away with it. And Dragoneer is proud of this.
Going after ancient art of mine, to find the smallest offensives i've did on it like a mistaken rating or something, something I labeled as mature gets put to adult (it's hard to keep up with all my old art and fix the smallest things fast, they look for petty things to bully you about to make a suspension look legit about things you've forgotten about completely if you're a threat to them).
Got my first suspension on here, for something as dumb as me saying things like saying "Weasly is kinda dead to me" Aka the site isn't as lively as I thought, like FA etc, and they labeled that as mislead/hate speech etc.
Other suspension reason was about comments of mine complaining about how horrible the cub porn management is at taking care of the issues. They label anything I spoke of as trying to mislead or lie about something. Even though I got screenshot proof of everything i'm complaining about.
(They added like 3 reasons for my 24 hour suspension, these were them)
On a serious note: I fell like I could take the post since I have scocially very competent.
But if you really need someone to do moderation, you might as well choose someone you know.
Just make sure that this is actually qualified.
>Comment section is an absolute shitstorm
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You're asking too much.
But as i said earlier, I understand that THIS is how FurAffinity runs itself. But its disappointing when you know the admin or mods easily abuse their powers to support their favorite artists and protect them, while smaller artist are weeded out. Characters designs that they "personally" deem unfavorable to the site and immediately attacked without warning. Sure, if they're violating rules and terms of service they should be contacted, not immediately suspended. I've seen a few commenters on here that simply attack other artist just because they feel empowered to do so, and would try to get them banned to satisfy their ever so lust for feeling like they're on the moral high ground, and no one has the right to feel that way on here, because a lot of folk on here have drawn something that others might not like. I was told growing up that artist should be respected, regardless of what they draw and not accuse them of something they havent done. let me break it down; there was a trial not too long ago (back in 2018) where a guy was sent to court for possession of loli/shota art, after a good minute of reviewing his case, the man was found not guilty as the characters WERE NOT REAL. Do not mix fantasy with reality unless the person proceeds to act upon it in real life or with proper evidence to push forward. With that out of the way...
As for the requests above about the staff, i feel that its impossible to fix with the current state of FurAffinity. The site already has gone into complete chaos and has been for a very long time. If you want the website to be fixed, id say have a dedicated team that actually cares about the site; those who dont favor artist and will discipline them, even if they know them personally. Being able to tell the difference between whats considered "of age" versus "underage". Being able to contact artist or users who are violating the rules and try to meet to a middle point and fix issues accordingly. Being able to spot obvious bots, helping people who are actually attacked regardless if the person is attacking someone off-site or on-site. People who can actually suspend users who are wrongfully sending out reports to innocent artist. actually updating the damn site. A security team of some sort that can check the site at certain times for anything suspicious even if the site is running weirdly. These are all ways you can fix the site (in my opinion). Sure some of what I said might not be favorable to some in the comment section, and I understand that. Everyone on here have different views on the subject thats constantly brought up above. I support all artist regardless of who they are and what they draw, only villains would go out and go on a rampage to hurt people they dont know. And if you dont like what they draw, you can always never see their page again. (i.e have a proper tagging system so it wont be directed towards someones page but only similar content the user is looking for).
With that said, i hope everyone has a great day/evening. Much love.