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I'm removing my content from FA
a year ago
I've been with FA for a long while now. Longer than this account, really. I'm not making this journal on an impulse and it's taken me a fair bit of time to collect my thoughts on the subject. Ultimately, I have come to the decision of removing my content from the site. I'm sure some folks will feel sad about this but I feel the team running FA has played their hand in this latest string of policy revisions. The site has been no stranger to these sorts of events. Hell, I was here when the site allowed underage content to be uploaded. However, I feel the collective weight created by Dragoneer and his moderation team's decisions over the years has gradually eroded my faith in their ability to manage the site properly. I understand that moderating a site of this size is a considerable effort but the string of policy changes and the reactions that have come about from questioning those policies have revealed an array of personal biases that have and will probably continue to plague the site even once a proper enforcement policy is decided upon.
The objective value of FurAffinity is the same of any social media/content-sharing site which is the content that its users submit to the platform. Given what I have stated above, I no longer feel comfortable in contributing towards the site's value with my content. I am aware that the majority of my content does not technically violate the updated policies put out by FA but what is the use of having principles if they are not acted upon.
With that said, I will still leave the account open. I think there is value in the communities I have chosen to participate in and folks are free to continue to reach out through Notes if they so wish. But until my faith has been restored, I will not be an active contributor. I will leave my content up until the end of the month and then I will remove it.
The objective value of FurAffinity is the same of any social media/content-sharing site which is the content that its users submit to the platform. Given what I have stated above, I no longer feel comfortable in contributing towards the site's value with my content. I am aware that the majority of my content does not technically violate the updated policies put out by FA but what is the use of having principles if they are not acted upon.
With that said, I will still leave the account open. I think there is value in the communities I have chosen to participate in and folks are free to continue to reach out through Notes if they so wish. But until my faith has been restored, I will not be an active contributor. I will leave my content up until the end of the month and then I will remove it.
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