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FA no long feels like a safe home for the fandom
a year ago
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The increasingly questionable moderation decisions by furaffinity staff following the passing of dragoneer have greatly called into question whether this website can uphold its legacy.
First was the breach which i can understand as them being taken advantage of in a vulnerable moment
Then was the unjust harassment of baby/diaper furs, which was indefensible but perhaps could be conceived as disagreements within the site management and bad actors having their way
But now we are seeing talented artists banned for "AI" art despite showing timelapses, which, mind you, is not a necessary thing for us as an artists, we generally dont save timelapses of everything we do, but in this case
YONSIA showed mountains of evidence their work is all legitimate and they were banned anyways. This is completely inexcusable behavior on behalf of the FurAffinity moderation team, and part of a string of stunningly terrible decisions that leads me to feel like I might have to abandon what's been like a home port to me for my career as a furry artist, on principle, and/or eventually out of necessity. The only reasonable explaination i can imagine is some combination of a blatant abuse of power, and brazen stupidity.
I don't have another gallery site I trust and rely on right now, I do have my bluesky account, and i try to post everything i draw there as well but i dont want to one day lose my gallery because one dumbass piece of shit on staff arbitrarily decides they dont like me and comes up with some innane excuse to ban me, or lose my gallery because everyone leaves because the staff cannot be trusted. If by some chance someone on FA staff finds themselves reading this, this is the way people feel when they see this garbage happening, stop with the unjustified bans. This place is supposed to be the safe harbor for the fandom, don't take that away. You're destroying Dragoneer's legacy with every shitty moderation decision.
Anyway, my linktree is https://linktr.ee/lukatheott and specifically my bluesky handle is lukatheott.bsky.social
I hope I never have to leave this place, but who knows.
First was the breach which i can understand as them being taken advantage of in a vulnerable moment
Then was the unjust harassment of baby/diaper furs, which was indefensible but perhaps could be conceived as disagreements within the site management and bad actors having their way
But now we are seeing talented artists banned for "AI" art despite showing timelapses, which, mind you, is not a necessary thing for us as an artists, we generally dont save timelapses of everything we do, but in this case
YONSIA showed mountains of evidence their work is all legitimate and they were banned anyways. This is completely inexcusable behavior on behalf of the FurAffinity moderation team, and part of a string of stunningly terrible decisions that leads me to feel like I might have to abandon what's been like a home port to me for my career as a furry artist, on principle, and/or eventually out of necessity. The only reasonable explaination i can imagine is some combination of a blatant abuse of power, and brazen stupidity.I don't have another gallery site I trust and rely on right now, I do have my bluesky account, and i try to post everything i draw there as well but i dont want to one day lose my gallery because one dumbass piece of shit on staff arbitrarily decides they dont like me and comes up with some innane excuse to ban me, or lose my gallery because everyone leaves because the staff cannot be trusted. If by some chance someone on FA staff finds themselves reading this, this is the way people feel when they see this garbage happening, stop with the unjustified bans. This place is supposed to be the safe harbor for the fandom, don't take that away. You're destroying Dragoneer's legacy with every shitty moderation decision.
Anyway, my linktree is https://linktr.ee/lukatheott and specifically my bluesky handle is lukatheott.bsky.social
I hope I never have to leave this place, but who knows.
I'd like to hear the FA mods' response to this.
