REPOSTED FROM  qarrezel
"I am not normally the sort of person to take an extreme position on something. Usually I am happy to work through a problem, mediate, or wait for a situation to improve. But sometimes there is a problem which just isn't going to be solved, and you take all of the right courses of action, only to find yourself faced with a moral dilemma - and the only solution is to make a statement.

Currently, I have a moral dilemma with regards to Fur Affinity.

Over the past few months, my long-term client and friend,  tarangryph tarangryph has been the victim of some pretty serious stalking behavior by  fredriksam fredriksam - both on and off Fur Affinity. He has found and posted photographs of her online, posted her personal information in public, and written a sex story wherein the main character breaks into Taran's house, steals her fursuit, and does awful sexual things. In this story, he uses her real name and location.
Fredriksam has made several comments about looking up Taran's address, about how easy it would be to find where she lives. He even contacted me to try and confirm her address, knowing that I would probably have records of my customer's contact information.

A week ago, Taran finally decided that it had gone far enough - she composed a journal on FA warning people about this guy's behavior, and filed a harassment ticket against him.
Fredriksam commented multiple times on the journal, making endless excuses for himself and claiming that she should thank him for what he did - he gave her lots of attention, after all.
You would think that this individual would be banned, or at least reprimanded (especially since his gallery was full of stolen art).

But No. Not only was he NOT banned, but the mods saw fit to punish Taran. They deleted her journal entry and the comments therein, with all of the evidence of the conflict. Taran feels so threatened and betrayed, she has left FA, and probably will not be comfortable associating with furries again.

When  svedge brought this troubling development to the attention of Dragoneer, this is what he had to say:
"Dragoneer
Posted: 6 hours ago
The admin took the right course of action in this case. I don't feel it's something to leave FA over, as if it happened on FA, it will happen on /any/ site. It's unfortunate, but a choice they have made. I'll respect that."

So Dragoneer very respectfully does not give a flying ass-wipe about what is obviously criminal behavior and exploitation happening right here on his site. Why? Because it could happen anywhere! brilliant logic, Dragoneer.

No, I think that this is a great reason to leave. In my eyes, and certainly in Taran's eyes, this website's administrators are willing to turn a blind eye to abuse. They are willing to condone harassment and exploitation, and in doing so, they encourage this behavior.

And that, my friends, is why I am leaving Fur Affinity. As a woman, as a person with respect for my friends and customers, I do not want to be associated with a website that protects and supports predatory behavior.

It pains me to leave the parts of this site that I really love - that being the overwhelming majority of you who are good people, and who are kind and amazingly supportive of our work.

Luckily, at the same time that this situation pushed me to this point, Weasyl (https://www.weasyl.com) just launched open Beta - so it is now open for anyone to join. Even though the site is just getting started, I can tell already that it's brilliantly designed, and I can see a really great community being established there. Maybe the best part is that it's not being run by people who have their heads lodged firmly up their rears.

I have registered two accounts:
https://www.weasyl.com/profile/clockworkcreature for our costumes and other work done under the Clockwork Creature header, and
https://www.weasyl.com/profile/qarrezel for my personal artwork.

Please come join us there.

(p.s. I am screencapping this journal and any comments that are left on it, just in case FA decides to target me as well) If you would like to get in touch with us, please email Info@ClockworkCreature.com"


THIS IS UNBEALIEVABLE ! I didn NOT expect this at ALL. Altough I'll still be on FA for a while lionger I'll go over to Weayl etc etc. I neither want to be in a community ruled by thick heads.
Hope u read <3