lol losing followers. yall telling on your damn selves

The updated rules and clarification in the form of works submitted to be judged and determined in violation are exceptionally overreaching. "People just want child-like things in their sex art" is a senseless reading of the situation based on the bare minimum of attention. Your gallery is equally at risk based on what the mods have been saying as any actual cub art would be. They are lumping a huge number of things in a bin free of context and banning it indiscriminately.

I guess but honestly I highly doubt that the moderately restrictive rules will ACTUALLY be put into practice. Usually rules like this coat a broad spectrum so they can then justify a takedown if they deem it necessary, but I very seriously doubt some “borderline things” (kobolds, mlp ponies, etc) will be subject to much of this. If I’m wrong I’ll eat my hat and all that, but I think people are freaking out over what will probably bring veeeery little change on a routine basis for normal users.

I think it’s kind of an improvement from furaffinity being a bit of a lawless wasteland in terms of minor porn content, but we’ll have to see.

Probably the greatest “loss” will be baby form pokemon content, but personally, I’ve always found that kind of borderline regardless.

Admittedly I posted this in the morning when I was more prone to be eyerolly and I probably shouldn’t have came for people as hard, so I think I’m gonna revise it, but I still standby that it’s very unlikely it’s the apocalypse scenario people seem to have in mind

I don't think it really is a good thing that any of this is happening even if nothing significant changes, but I am also not probably going anywhere else too soon unless June comes and they decide to pick apart my gallery. Probably not going to upload anything new here for a while, if ever, also.

Yeah not like I’ve got anywhere else to go. If I’m nuked, I’ll move, but otherwise, eh!

Previous rules already covered cub art. The "but they're an adult actually" excuse they are referring to is as illegitimate an excuse before this change. The argument this was needed to give them a firmer stance to challenge that excuse is laughable. No one using that excuse would be arguing in good faith and so you'll still have those pointless appeals, endless drama, and attacks from those people. The mod response to feedback to this change makes it seem pretty much like an extremely puritan mod just wanted to wipe out a large amount of nsfw content under the guise of protecting children and that shouldn't be a surprise because that is an extremely common and reused tactic among those who feel that way.

While I disagree with a lot of what he has to say, RunawayDanish has a lengthy post into why he feels this rules update hurts many artists here while not actually accomplishing its given goal of protecting children. I largely mention it because I do agree with his point that this change is about disgust. It is entirely down to an individual's preferences for content and the change was made to remove content they didn't like regardless of any context.

FA has tried to clarify that context does matter and that this "isn't a species ban" but that doesn't hold up to scrutiny against what they are actually banning under the new rules.

A bit late to this post, but w/e.

Imo, the core issue isn't what they're trying to do, but how they're going about doing it. While this change isn't the end of the world, it does imply a slippery slope towards the reliability of the sight. If specific characters or artists are targeted because of new rules then it is not that far of a jump to put yourself in those artist's shoes and wounder what will happen if the next rule change comes for you next. Security is valuable in a community, and having people censored in a ham-fisted way spreads fear.

Personally I feel like they should have implemented a system of letting users filter tags that they are not interested in. I'm not a mod or programmer though, so what do I know?