Using internet increasingly feels like walking a minefield these days, even on sites like FA that are the last bastions of actual online freedom.

It's disgusting. I'm so tired of jumping through the hoops of finding new places every other day because of this.
Sometimes i think that sites should remove the human components from administration because egos are so poisonous.

Eh, I've read plenty of horror stories involving automated/AI moderation too. It’s probably impossible to have consistent moderation on a large scale for stuff that is as easy to misinterpret as furry art... I miss the days when these issues simply weren't relevant as few people cared very much about what was going on in niche drawings. :-/

Yeah, same. I'll always be an underground artist inside. I used to be happy when fa got strictier on some fetishes the first time, but now i realize it was wrong.
As long as it's just lines on paper, if i can choose, rules of content are just an excuse for prevarication.

This.

Wow, Ruki seriously? Everyone stepped up to help FA after Dragoneers tragic passing and during those hacker attacks and now they ban a respected member of the community for they seeing something in their art that isn't there? This is very disappointing.

They're not the only one, and admins seem to run "purges" of people they don't like periodically. It's unnerving, and vile to say the least.

There's a reason FA staff are often pariah's amongst furry communities, and often on-sight banned from other larger communities for past troublemaking.

Ma se c'e di peggio in giro per fa. Lol ^^;

Ma MOOOOLTO peggio!

This is awful :( I hope they fix this...

Pedo/beast feelings?! I didn't see anything of the sort

Did they remove any artwork from Ruki's gallery as well? Because I don't see anything other than some chibi art style of ferals and anthros.
Small breasts and slender figure does not immediately mean underage, there are people who have a body type like that even as adults or people with dwarfism (or whatever the politically correct term is these days)

Also one of the first images I found in their gallery already states that they wouldn't draw the semi anthro with humans because of how it might look, so that to me seems like there is no intent on purposely drawing anything underaged in adult situations and that took me less than five minutes to find. But I guess that would be too much work and effort for some admins who only judge on personal feelings instead of logic and facts. FA just keeps feeling increasingly more hostile since Dragoneer's passing, like the admins are just trying to be promoted to site owner or something.

From what i read, they removed pokemon pics. Some of the admins were already abusing their power before Dragoneer passing, what i fear now it's that they think they can do whatever they feel because the community batched fa expenses, and so it's exploitable. This kind of excessive boldness it's very dangerous, when it comes to make a site work...

Maybe it could have also been a false flagging campaign, who is to say the same people who hacked FA recently don't have accounts still on this site and this is just part of their harassment campaign since they know the admins are loose cannons who aren't likely to check the facts or gain more information first. In any case it's very concerning that any of us can just be banned for no real reason other than feelings. I'm pretty sure I will be banned some day as well when I inevitably unintentionally hurt some one's feelings on this site or just randomly because some admin/moderator had a bad day or needs to fill some quota.

I sort of feel like the axe will fall on my neck for some reason too, someday XD

There's definitely been a rash of this lately. Do you know if it's permanent?

It's also next to impossible to know if it was for a legit reason or not. Jumping to conclusions isn't good either. I wish there was a lot more transparency here.

I even caught a week's suspension recently, which ended up being rescinded because it was BS, but I sent an email contesting that which wasn't even answered till over two days past when the suspension was over, so the damage was done either way.

There's also a lot of pressure on sites in the last few years from banks and credit card companies due to pressure on them by extremist Christian groups like Exodus Cry. That's what trashed porn sites a couple of years ago.

Jesus mighty, it's a mess. I'm sorry for the suspension. I don't know if Ruki's permanent, i hope not.
I'm pretty sure Ruki's banning isn't legit because honest, I've never seen something even vaguely resembling a cub in their gallery. But the rules are murky, and pretty hard to understand and apply. It's a huge mess...

Agreed on all counts.

The list grows. Fifth one this week.

FA's staff is going thought police without warning, blatantly violating their own promises and rules.

Exactly as predicted, once 'Neer passed, everyone just starts doing whatever they want here.

Yeah. This sucks.

This place is barely functional as is, I've lost count of the errors I've seen randomly. The team needs to focus more on site stability and security and less on whims and pettiness.

RuDragon got banned too, and their artwork isn't even anything smutty. At most a bit cheeky.

No really.... This starts to smell like trolling.

Knew it that cute ferals are the next :/
If I didn't have IB for backup I'd be depressed.

I agree that cub shouldn’t be allowed. I wasn’t part of the site at the time but heard about it and still feel it was the right choice. But banning anything vaguely cute is way too much! I think the recent addition to the rule might of taken it too far when it was already working just fine

I hope they rectify this!

I'm not going to get back on inkbunny if i can help. And i can understand if you have a problem with Dragoneer, but please don't vent against dead people on my page, it's not something i appreciate.

The future of internet is very uncertain
I'd hate if FA went down a dark path banning things left and right because of some made up moral issues and delusions of administration. This site is one of very few I feel good being on and using but nothing is granted.

As someone said, censorship isn't a scalpel but a nuke, and a moving goalpost, it was obvious things like this would be happening since day 0 of upload policy update. Making things hazy always gives power to authority and takes it away from you.

Never forget, once authority takes your rights and privileges, these will not be returned easily

Sounds depressingly common for FA, and Ruki is a superb artist and storyteller. Man, this place starts to feel more and more like Facebook all the time.

I think I know what the problem might be. I have been whacked a couple of times and it was not for anything I did, but I know at least one was revenge for opinions I posted in comments on art or on journals.

I heard about this opinion banning, and it's disgusting, but it's not the only thing because they threw the hammer on people that didn't share their thoughts, and just posted art. If it was just opinion persecution AT LEAST we'd know what's the deal with the terrible moderation...

There seems to be the trend of "if it's underaged looking and has been used in porn elsewhere it should not be here".

Unless it's gay.

I hope someday, people will finally host their arts, or their friend's themselves. No more acceptable content minefield or admin run amok.

It's what I do. Hmmm... maybe my old HTML Tutorial will become relevant yet...

cohost just died too just as i was starting to think it might be nice there

the internet's kind of a wash, what we had for the past ~20 years was never going to last and we're seeing the change really hitting all over rip ngl