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FA Harassment Drama: This is my Opinion
12 years ago
Keeping this brief...
What I have seen is that (one) FA admin mishandled one situation; while this is a good opportunity for the FA administrative team to reflect on how this might else have been handled, to claim outrage or use it as a reason to exit I find frankly ridiculous. As we all know - Furry is / can be a 'creepy' place. There are 'creeps' out there (same as in regular societies / fandoms, mind), and to believe that this is the first time a FA user has been 'harassed' would beggar belief. How many other times have the FA admins responded in the RIGHT way? I should imagine problem users have been nipped in the bud more than a few times. But, of course, human error, there comes a time when a lapse in judgement occurs.
I myself would never wish to be responsible for 'policing' the behaviors of a community as disparate and (occasionally deviant) as furry. Can those who criticize the FA admins say the same thing?
FA is a free service that I enjoy, it has the content I enjoy, and a functionality not one FA-wannabe has yet replicated (the ability to browse by fetish with one drop-down option. Not beating around the bush or anything on that score). I won't be leaving, not in these circumstances, that's for sure.
- Achilles.
What I have seen is that (one) FA admin mishandled one situation; while this is a good opportunity for the FA administrative team to reflect on how this might else have been handled, to claim outrage or use it as a reason to exit I find frankly ridiculous. As we all know - Furry is / can be a 'creepy' place. There are 'creeps' out there (same as in regular societies / fandoms, mind), and to believe that this is the first time a FA user has been 'harassed' would beggar belief. How many other times have the FA admins responded in the RIGHT way? I should imagine problem users have been nipped in the bud more than a few times. But, of course, human error, there comes a time when a lapse in judgement occurs.
I myself would never wish to be responsible for 'policing' the behaviors of a community as disparate and (occasionally deviant) as furry. Can those who criticize the FA admins say the same thing?
FA is a free service that I enjoy, it has the content I enjoy, and a functionality not one FA-wannabe has yet replicated (the ability to browse by fetish with one drop-down option. Not beating around the bush or anything on that score). I won't be leaving, not in these circumstances, that's for sure.
- Achilles.
Like do you know what went down? Because it sounds like you just heard secondhand about what happened and are being really glib about it. Here's what happened, with quotes of the pertinent journals http://furatrocity.tumblr.com/post/.....-of-the-exodus
A woman was stalked, harassed, and threatened, on and off site. If you think it's okay the staff came down on the victim before the stalker, because "the internet is a creepy place"? Then I'm sorry, but you're a really gross person, and I would feel majorly unsafe with you if I was close to you.
The response of the userbase however I find too full of moral righteousness; if the rhetoric could be taken down a notch, that would be fantastic.
Also, one version of events is that the victim's "private" information such as name and location were in fact publically available via social media profiles. I think sometimes people forget just how much of themselves they put out there.
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