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18 years ago
"As life goes on I’m starting to learn more and more about responsibility
And I realize that everything I do is affecting the people around me
So I want to take this time out to apologize for things that
I’ve done things that haven’t occurred yet
and things that they don’t want to take responsibility for"
-Akon
Alright the firebirdy is fucking pissed. HUGE rant coming up, but it ain't political or enviormental.
I'm calling out Fur Affinity.
Really? How many of you are thrilled to be a part of this great site? An alrternative to the hellholes called DeviantArt and SheezyArt. A site by furries, for furries, a place where we can express ourselfs.
Or so we're told...
Some of y'all are probably wondering why my 68-submision gallery full of SL screes got turned into a 5-submission gallery with a pic of Krystal, the moon, and other odds and ends.
Well apparently SOMEONE complained to the admins that me, my friend
blazger and 2 others were spamming the system with them.
Ok I tried to keep cool about all this, but I have a limit, and it's about to get real ugly up in here.
First: To the person that said I was spamming: YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT! You tried to spin it to make it look like I was spammnig the site. I belive your words were "Blatant disregard of the AUP"
How can I have disregard for something THAT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE?!
Lets look at the AUP shall we,mainly the part about SL.
Second Life screenshots are only permitted when showcasing an avatar created by or for the user, and will be limited to no more than three (3) submissions per User, per avatar. Purchased Avatars not created by or for the User or modifications of purchased avatars are not permitted. Excess submissions will be removed by Administration.
Users wishing to display multiple angles of the same Avatar are encouraged to create a collage (a single image consisting of multiple screenshots).
Okay, this is what's wrong with it:
It's based on the By You/For You policy, which is just anti-SL.
Basicaly the policy is that if you didn't make it, or it wasn't made for you, you can't post it. Simple on paper right?
Simple in the real world? Wrong. That policy explicitly bans SL screenshots. SL Screenshots are never totally original, as everything in SL was made by someone else, unless you're the developer, but even then developers use materials from other sources right?
Take for example my Avatar: No I did not make it, but I CUSTOMIZED it. Unfortuantly it's too subtle for FA. I changed the height, and the eye and hair color. It's not original, but it's CUSTOMIZED. Sorry if that's not good enough no?
Same thing with blazger okay so his AV wasn't original too, but agian he Customized it.
Another thing to the people dissing us SL users that take pics and call them unoriginal. WELL UNLESS YOU'RE GOD, NOTHING IS ORIGINAL!!!
Everything is inspired from SOMETHING.
For example, let's look at
noramyr who made the phoenix AV. Now I think she did a FAN-TAS-TIC job on it, and I will worship her forever for letting me beta test it.
But anyone that's read Extinctioners can see that there's some physical similarities between the AV, and the character Phenix (hot phoenix girl). I'm willing to bet that Nora lent Phenix's physical likeness to the av. (But IMO, the female version looks nothing like Phenix).
Okay that aside. The SL Policy flip flops more times in a minute than John Kerry does in a day.
It says that only 3 screenies may be uploaded if they fit the policy right? And purchased avatars are not permitted.
Well there's only so many developers of AV's in SL. Nora is the only one I know that has an account here.
So I'm sorry that I can't make a fucking avatar, and instead customize a kickass one for my own char. Something that's done to death in art. The blame's on you FA, but you can put the blame on me.
Another thing. It says that excess submissions outside of 3 pics wil lbe removed as they are considered spam, but collages are welcome.
Now I know I spammed a bit the series of me having my way with
symgryphon, 
lessashuftan, and 
wintermist I was planning to make those into collages eventually.
But let's say for a moment that i actually MADE my own shit in SL. I fill my gallery with pics of my stuff. Someone shouts "SPAM" and it gets nuked. And I make them into collages, and suddenly they're ok huh?
So if I was to condense 68 images into 3, I can upload them agian?! OH WAIT! THEY'RE NOT ORIGINAL! MY LUCK!
Seems like the only SL users FA wants pics from are the developers, which are few and are i nbetween.
Then it gets worse.
The Admins get on my tail telling them to take down my screenies.
Now may I say before, that I got into trouble based on my SL screenies before (see previous journals) but they did NOTHING. Not to mention I caused an uproar on the fourms 2 previous times.
So they had 3 CHANCES to tell me to take them down, and they did NOTHING.
Suspicious if you ask me.
Anyway, sooo I send PM to admins asking what to take down. They repeat the same AUP bullshit.
So my reply? "Look this makes no sense, so I won't do anything, but you can take them down if you really want to."
I forgot to say, that it took 30 MINS to get rid of my "In trouble" screenshots. 30 mintues wasted if you ask me.
Sooo they take down screenies, all is good right?
Wrong!!
Dave_Hyena who sent me note says I "Did not comply"
Well sorry if me saying "Go ahead and take them down" is not your definition of clomplying! Would you have prefered if I slaved all night taking them down myself?! Why don't I just become your butler while I'm at it?!
It gets worse.
Friends of mine :blazger: and :symgryphon: got similar notes.
Blaze is fed up with this bullshit, Sym too.
Sym though is in trouble. Shi can't delete her gallery. Probably a conspiracy to kick us SL users out.
Dave is acting like shi's not trying.
Well Dave here's a message for you and anyone else that has a problem with Sym and her SL shots.
FUCKING LEAVE HIR ALONE!!!!
You want those screens gone?! Do it yourself!!
This site is taking an anti-SL bias weither they want to admit it or not.
Now the admins here are I belive respectable people. THey arn't power hungry, they arn't corrupt, and they care abotu the site.
But still, to SL users, they're bullies.
They pick on them because they're taking photographs in SL. Well PHOTOGRAPHS ARE ART TO! Maybe it dosen't seem like it, but I spent ALOT of time on my shots, trying to get them right! I only posted the best ones, I have over 600 SL shots on my PC, and alot of them are crap and will never see the light of day.
They say SL shots are spam. Well I bet that wouldn't be the case if during the last upgrade, the site wasn't downgraded to a SLOWER connection. I belive the whole point of upgrades it to INCREASE the specs right?
Agian they use the By You/For You crap to say that SL isn't 100% original. Well agian unless you're GOD , NOTHING is 100% original.
And let me tell you something about Sym. At least shi's benefiting her coomunity in REAL life. Shi's a cartpusher at Wal-Mart. Now she's tired, and hurtin, and hir job has put her through hell, but shi's still out there, helping people get from point A to point B with as little difficulty as possible. And shi's a great friend, and I love hir to death, and I'm god damned proud to know hir.
I have a first life as well. When I'm not doing my studies, I'm an actor for the communtiy theatre. And over the summer, I work maintence on a golf course. I help serve my community year round, and prepare for the future at the same time.
And those that hate SL, what are they doing? Probably bashing it cause their PC's cant run it or whatnot. So they hole up in their basements, and make a ruckus to the admins.
I didn't want to bring up the Cub Art thing, but frankly, with the biases for cubs and agianst SL, sounds like the only furres that SL haters want posting here are the ones that are a cross between Leo DaVinci and Michael Jackson.
Well I'm NOT DAVINCI OR JACKSON!
So I'm sorry that I can't draw, I'm sorry that I threatend to make the site implode by uploading my own version of art.
And I'm sorry to all the users here that are getting blasted for posting SL screens. YOU DESERVE BETTTER.
As soon as I can find a new site, I'm gettin the hell out, cause I've had it. Either the AUP is reformed, or I take a hike.
And it's in the admins best interest if they reform the AUP.
SL users take up a good percentage of the user base here. Is it worth losing a chunk of the users here because people hate SL?
If FA bans SL screens all together, then it's shooting itself in the foot. I won't say it'll bring the site down, but there's no question it'll almost be like hammering a nail into the coffin.
That's all.
Helios
And I realize that everything I do is affecting the people around me
So I want to take this time out to apologize for things that
I’ve done things that haven’t occurred yet
and things that they don’t want to take responsibility for"
-Akon
Alright the firebirdy is fucking pissed. HUGE rant coming up, but it ain't political or enviormental.
I'm calling out Fur Affinity.
Really? How many of you are thrilled to be a part of this great site? An alrternative to the hellholes called DeviantArt and SheezyArt. A site by furries, for furries, a place where we can express ourselfs.
Or so we're told...
Some of y'all are probably wondering why my 68-submision gallery full of SL screes got turned into a 5-submission gallery with a pic of Krystal, the moon, and other odds and ends.
Well apparently SOMEONE complained to the admins that me, my friend
blazger and 2 others were spamming the system with them.Ok I tried to keep cool about all this, but I have a limit, and it's about to get real ugly up in here.
First: To the person that said I was spamming: YOU'RE FULL OF SHIT! You tried to spin it to make it look like I was spammnig the site. I belive your words were "Blatant disregard of the AUP"
How can I have disregard for something THAT MAKES NO FUCKING SENSE?!
Lets look at the AUP shall we,mainly the part about SL.
Second Life screenshots are only permitted when showcasing an avatar created by or for the user, and will be limited to no more than three (3) submissions per User, per avatar. Purchased Avatars not created by or for the User or modifications of purchased avatars are not permitted. Excess submissions will be removed by Administration.
Users wishing to display multiple angles of the same Avatar are encouraged to create a collage (a single image consisting of multiple screenshots).
Okay, this is what's wrong with it:
It's based on the By You/For You policy, which is just anti-SL.
Basicaly the policy is that if you didn't make it, or it wasn't made for you, you can't post it. Simple on paper right?
Simple in the real world? Wrong. That policy explicitly bans SL screenshots. SL Screenshots are never totally original, as everything in SL was made by someone else, unless you're the developer, but even then developers use materials from other sources right?
Take for example my Avatar: No I did not make it, but I CUSTOMIZED it. Unfortuantly it's too subtle for FA. I changed the height, and the eye and hair color. It's not original, but it's CUSTOMIZED. Sorry if that's not good enough no?
Same thing with
blazger okay so his AV wasn't original too, but agian he Customized it. Another thing to the people dissing us SL users that take pics and call them unoriginal. WELL UNLESS YOU'RE GOD, NOTHING IS ORIGINAL!!!
Everything is inspired from SOMETHING.
For example, let's look at
noramyr who made the phoenix AV. Now I think she did a FAN-TAS-TIC job on it, and I will worship her forever for letting me beta test it. But anyone that's read Extinctioners can see that there's some physical similarities between the AV, and the character Phenix (hot phoenix girl). I'm willing to bet that Nora lent Phenix's physical likeness to the av. (But IMO, the female version looks nothing like Phenix).
Okay that aside. The SL Policy flip flops more times in a minute than John Kerry does in a day.
It says that only 3 screenies may be uploaded if they fit the policy right? And purchased avatars are not permitted.
Well there's only so many developers of AV's in SL. Nora is the only one I know that has an account here.
So I'm sorry that I can't make a fucking avatar, and instead customize a kickass one for my own char. Something that's done to death in art. The blame's on you FA, but you can put the blame on me.
Another thing. It says that excess submissions outside of 3 pics wil lbe removed as they are considered spam, but collages are welcome.
Now I know I spammed a bit the series of me having my way with
symgryphon, 
lessashuftan, and 
wintermist I was planning to make those into collages eventually.But let's say for a moment that i actually MADE my own shit in SL. I fill my gallery with pics of my stuff. Someone shouts "SPAM" and it gets nuked. And I make them into collages, and suddenly they're ok huh?
So if I was to condense 68 images into 3, I can upload them agian?! OH WAIT! THEY'RE NOT ORIGINAL! MY LUCK!
Seems like the only SL users FA wants pics from are the developers, which are few and are i nbetween.
Then it gets worse.
The Admins get on my tail telling them to take down my screenies.
Now may I say before, that I got into trouble based on my SL screenies before (see previous journals) but they did NOTHING. Not to mention I caused an uproar on the fourms 2 previous times.
So they had 3 CHANCES to tell me to take them down, and they did NOTHING.
Suspicious if you ask me.
Anyway, sooo I send PM to admins asking what to take down. They repeat the same AUP bullshit.
So my reply? "Look this makes no sense, so I won't do anything, but you can take them down if you really want to."
I forgot to say, that it took 30 MINS to get rid of my "In trouble" screenshots. 30 mintues wasted if you ask me.
Sooo they take down screenies, all is good right?
Wrong!!
Dave_Hyena who sent me note says I "Did not comply"
Well sorry if me saying "Go ahead and take them down" is not your definition of clomplying! Would you have prefered if I slaved all night taking them down myself?! Why don't I just become your butler while I'm at it?!
It gets worse.
Friends of mine :blazger: and :symgryphon: got similar notes.
Blaze is fed up with this bullshit, Sym too.
Sym though is in trouble. Shi can't delete her gallery. Probably a conspiracy to kick us SL users out.
Dave is acting like shi's not trying.
Well Dave here's a message for you and anyone else that has a problem with Sym and her SL shots.
FUCKING LEAVE HIR ALONE!!!!
You want those screens gone?! Do it yourself!!
This site is taking an anti-SL bias weither they want to admit it or not.
Now the admins here are I belive respectable people. THey arn't power hungry, they arn't corrupt, and they care abotu the site.
But still, to SL users, they're bullies.
They pick on them because they're taking photographs in SL. Well PHOTOGRAPHS ARE ART TO! Maybe it dosen't seem like it, but I spent ALOT of time on my shots, trying to get them right! I only posted the best ones, I have over 600 SL shots on my PC, and alot of them are crap and will never see the light of day.
They say SL shots are spam. Well I bet that wouldn't be the case if during the last upgrade, the site wasn't downgraded to a SLOWER connection. I belive the whole point of upgrades it to INCREASE the specs right?
Agian they use the By You/For You crap to say that SL isn't 100% original. Well agian unless you're GOD , NOTHING is 100% original.
And let me tell you something about Sym. At least shi's benefiting her coomunity in REAL life. Shi's a cartpusher at Wal-Mart. Now she's tired, and hurtin, and hir job has put her through hell, but shi's still out there, helping people get from point A to point B with as little difficulty as possible. And shi's a great friend, and I love hir to death, and I'm god damned proud to know hir.
I have a first life as well. When I'm not doing my studies, I'm an actor for the communtiy theatre. And over the summer, I work maintence on a golf course. I help serve my community year round, and prepare for the future at the same time.
And those that hate SL, what are they doing? Probably bashing it cause their PC's cant run it or whatnot. So they hole up in their basements, and make a ruckus to the admins.
I didn't want to bring up the Cub Art thing, but frankly, with the biases for cubs and agianst SL, sounds like the only furres that SL haters want posting here are the ones that are a cross between Leo DaVinci and Michael Jackson.
Well I'm NOT DAVINCI OR JACKSON!
So I'm sorry that I can't draw, I'm sorry that I threatend to make the site implode by uploading my own version of art.
And I'm sorry to all the users here that are getting blasted for posting SL screens. YOU DESERVE BETTTER.
As soon as I can find a new site, I'm gettin the hell out, cause I've had it. Either the AUP is reformed, or I take a hike.
And it's in the admins best interest if they reform the AUP.
SL users take up a good percentage of the user base here. Is it worth losing a chunk of the users here because people hate SL?
If FA bans SL screens all together, then it's shooting itself in the foot. I won't say it'll bring the site down, but there's no question it'll almost be like hammering a nail into the coffin.
That's all.
Helios
Plus I think your photography is awesome.
And if they think that your stuff isn't art they need to go bvisit a traditional "art" gallery sometime.
I just did a review on the local museum and the best I could say about it was "grotesque apertures sprinkled with rare moments of beauty".
Ya think my photography is awesome? thanks <3
and meep, sounds like it wasn't that good
you're quite welcome.
and no, it was kinda icky *blech* my two-year-old could have done better.
Hehe, dang that really sounds bad
what does the traditional art community know anyways? I mean, c'mon, they pay multiple millions of dollars for paintings of Cambel's soup cans. Not even fancy soup cans either, just plain old ordinary tomato soup cans.
you got me there XD